Deep Tech Investor · Thinker · Builder

One signal through the noise.

Investing in science-led startups. Advising on product and technology. Thinking out loud about what matters, and what doesn't.

About

Splinter-brained monomaniac. Lover of rabbit holes.

  • Sales
  • Product
  • Journalism
  • Systems Admin
  • Software Dev
  • CTO
  • EiR
  • Speaker
  • Investor
ZenClarity over cleverness. Act from stillness.
EssentialismPursue the vital few. Ignore the trivial many.
OpenSourceIdeas improve when shared freely.

The career has been long and deliberately jagged - salesperson, journalist, systems administrator, software developer, CTO, entrepreneur-in-residence. Not a straight line, more like a helix. Each loop returning with a wider view.

A deep-thinker and problem-solver drawn to the unknown. A believer that rooms need unmuffled, different voices, and that the best ideas come from people who refuse to stay in one lane.

Today: running a Deep Tech fund, backing founders who start with science and build companies that could change how the world runs. Alongside that, advising startups and organisations of different scale on product strategy and technology roadmaps.

Fund & Investments

A portfolio built on the conviction that the most durable companies will now begin in a laboratory, not a pitch deck.

Reads

Books that leave a mark.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it,you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.That doesn’t happen much, though. ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

01
Storm in a Teacup
Helen Czerski
02
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
03
Behave
Robert Sapolsky
04
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
05
Outgrowing God
Richard Dawkins
06
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
07
Poetics
Aristotle
08
God's Debris
Scott Adams
09
How To
Randall Munroe
10
Total Freedom
J. Krishnamurti
11
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
12
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
Gordon Livingston
13
Pre-Suasion
Robert B. Cialdini
14
The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman
15
Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann
16
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
17
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
18
An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma
19
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
20
Unstoppable
Ben Angel
21
Scalability Rules
Martin Abbott & Michael Fisher
22
The Art of Scalability
Martin Abbott & Michael Fisher
23
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
24
The Growth Delusion
David Pilling
25
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
26
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
27
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
28
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
29
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
30
The Fuzzy and the Techie
Scott Hartley
31
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
32
The Second Machine Age
Brynjolfsson & McAfee
33
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Douglas Rushkoff
34
Life Inc
Douglas Rushkoff
35
Ego is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
36
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
37
Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
38
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
39
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler
40
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
41
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche
42
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
43
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
44
The Dharma Bums
Jack Kerouac
45
Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins
46
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
47
Thank You for Being Late
Thomas Friedman
48
As a Man Thinketh
James Allen
49
The Message of a Master
John McDonald
50
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
51
Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
52
Tarkash
Javed Akhtar
53
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
54
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
55
Have a Little Faith
Mitch Albom
56
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
57
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
58
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
59
Don't Ask Any Old Bloke For Directions
P.G. Tenzing
60
All the Birds in the Sky
Charlie Jane Anders
61
Berlin Diary
William Shirer
62
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William Shirer
63
Mossad
Michael Bar-Zohar
64
Serve to Win
Novak Djokovic
65
The China Study
Colin Campbell et al.
66
The Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz
67
Looptail
Bruce Poon Tip
68
Born to Run
Christopher McDougall
69
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
70
1984
George Orwell
71
Turning Point
Fritjof Capra
72
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
John Gribbin
73
Fermat's Last Theorem
Simon Singh
74
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
Dan Ariely
75
The World According to Garp
John Irving
76
Wisdom for the Way
Bruce Lee
77
What is Life?
Erwin Schrödinger
78
The Art of Living
Osho
79
When the Shoe Fits
Osho
80
The Goose is Out
Osho
81
The Dalai Lama's Cat
David Michie
82
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig
83
Thinking in Systems — A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
84
The Book of Tea
Kakuzo Okakura
85
The Art of Innovation
Tom Kelley
86
You Are Here
Thich Nhat Hanh
87
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
88
The Hidden Reality
Brian Greene
89
The Ending of Time
Krishnamurti & David Bohm
90
SuperIntelligence
Nick Bostrom
91
Deep Work
Cal Newport
92
Different
Youngme Moon

Writing

Deep tech and life - just trying to make sense.

Biomimicry and Deeptech InnovationSep 2025 ↗ DeepTech Investment and the Right LensSep 2025 ↗ Towards a Sovereign Defence StackAug 2025 ↗ Manufacturing in India — From Assembly Line to FOAKAug 2025 ↗ What's Sapping WhatsApp?Jan 2021 ↗ The Versificator Is Here — Could It Eat Your Job?Aug 2020 ↗ All essays on Substack →Archive ↗