About

I think of myself as a creative rationalist — half of me wants to make things, the other half wants to model and think about them.

One thing doing an MBA has given me is the space to figure out what I actually enjoy doing:

• I like to think, and to connect ideas
• I like to create
• I like structured, numerical problem-solving
• I like applying frameworks to absolutely everything

It turns out this combination lends itself very well to building with AI.

Over the past 6 months I built a personal operating system in Claude Code and Obsidian that runs most of my life, spent a summer at an AI startup turning consulting diligence method into a working agent product, and started building Diollo, named for the two halves I once wrote an essay about (live in fragments no longer): the Dionysian and the Apollonian, the creative and the rational.

The two main themes I am interested in are AI and how people think. This site pulls these together in the following way:

1. AI & the Mind: How AI is shaping and is likely to shape how humans think & some implications on society and the economy
2. Personal System: How I wire AI into my own thought
3. Build Projects: What I'm building with AI

This site exists to spark conversation. If you see this and find it interesting, or just want more detail on anything here, do reach out — I love to talk about all of this and am always thrilled when someone else does too.

My Background: I am currently doing an MBA at INSEAD, which has given me the time to build and think about all of this, and a seat on the AI Club leadership team, which has given me licence to try to inspire the rest of the cohort to build too. This autumn I am on an exchange at Wharton. Before the MBA I spent four years in strategy consulting in London, running strategy and commercial due diligence for private equity. Before any of that I read economics at Cambridge.