Now

These days I’m leading an engineering team, and I keep a coaching practice alongside it. It’s where the two halves of what I do, the engineering and the coaching, finally pull in the same direction. Lately I’ve been writing more of it down, about how teams actually operate, growing engineers into leaders, and using AI in engineering without losing the plot.

Away from the desk, the big one is martial arts. I practice Shaolin kung fu and tai chi regularly, and qigong at home has become the way I close the day. Being a genuine beginner at something gets harder to come by after a certain age; you have to arrange for it on purpose. Arranging for it has been worth more than I expected.

That’s started leaking into travel plans. I’m putting together a trip to Japan for November, and the itinerary keeps quietly reorganizing itself around training: a few karate sessions, and a first attempt at kyudo, which I’ve never touched and which looks by far the hardest to be a beginner at politely.

The rest of the off-hours: I’m re-reading Motivational Interviewing (the fourth edition), which pairs well with the coaching side of things. I’ve kept a Duolingo streak alive for over four years now, lately back on French and Spanish alongside the surprisingly fun new Math course. And for something to do with my hands, I’ve been building Lego, currently a Lord of the Rings set and the Back to the Future time machine.

This is a now page, a snapshot of what I’m up to at the moment rather than a résumé. Last updated 2 September 2026.