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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Langenium Prologue: Part 2, Hell on Earth
This is part 2 of 3 of the Langenium Prologue Trilogy. Start from the beginning, read Part 1: The End of All Limits. Act One: 2056 AD. Five years ago,…
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Langenium Prologue: Part 1, The end of all limits
This is part 1 of 3 of the Langenium Prologue Trilogy. The year is 2051. Decades ago, the production of new computer processors followed a trend called Moore’s Law. According…
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Top 10 Restaurants to order Uber Eats from in Perth (2026 edition)
This is not a sponsored article, I’m just sharing my love of good food and hoping to give everyone a heads up about the best places to go. It’s been…
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Echoes; An anthology
I wrote these short stories because Neil Gaiman gave a lecture to a crowd of graduating students telling them how he learned to write. Incrementally, by trial and error, and…
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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.