Hi, I’m Paul
I’m a writer, creative technologist and systems thinker based in Perth, Western Australia.
I write stories and essays about things that matter to me like reclaiming agency, liberty, technology and the systems people create in order to live inside them. I’m also the co-founder and technical director of Open Studios.
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Behind The Prologue: Writing About Systems
Since the dawn of civilisation, human life has been shaped by systems. Even before we invent an artificial intelligence with a consciousness like WERP’s, we have dependencies on systems for…
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Langenium Prologue: Part 3, Extinction Level Event
This is part 3 of the Langenium Prologue Trilogy. Start from the beginning, read Part 1: The End of All Limits. For my grandfather.Dla mojego dziadka. It’s a cold and…
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If you immediately know the candlelight is fire…
It was the summer of 1995, I lived in Gdynia, Poland and was seven years old. This was a formative trip for me, a time where I began to see…
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What is Financial Derangement Syndrome?
I’ve been thinking about a pattern I keep seeing in modern organisations and across our society: the assumption that everything can be quantified as a financial calculation. I call it…
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About Me
I’m Paul, a writer and creative technologist based in Perth, Western Australia. I have spent more than two decades working with software, the web, systems and graphical applications.
I’m also the co-founder and technical director of Open Studios, an independent studio creating fictional worlds, open-source software and experimental values led R&D.
The subjects on this site vary, but they come from the same place: an interest in how people live inside systems, what those systems do to them and how people find ways through.