My name isn’t the important part. It’s at the top of the page, and you found your way here, so we can take that as read.
I read Anthropology at Kent, spent three years learning to look at people very carefully, and then went into publishing. After that, a shop — an Apple Store, which turned out to be the best field site I have ever had. Retail led to IS&T and a long stretch inside the internal systems, then Pivotal, GitHub, and now Anthropic, where I work in IT and think mostly about endpoints and security. The titles change. The actual job is still watching what people do with the tools they’ve been handed, and noticing it’s rarely what anyone intended.
I was born in South London to Italian parents, and prolonged exposure to this country has done the rest: tea, postcards, the Shipping Forecast. I live in the Cotswolds now, with my wife and children and a shared fondness for orange — hence the vermilion warming these pages.
My parents insisted on Catholic schools, and the part that stuck wasn’t the doctrine. It was the daily evidence that a shared label tells you almost nothing about the people wearing it — which is, I suppose, where the anthropology started.
I serve as Treasurer of the Mac Admins Foundation, supporting the people who manage Apple devices at scale. The full professional history is in the curriculum vitae; the story of this journal and its typography is in the about page.
A note on capacity
While I work at Anthropic, the thoughts and opinions expressed here are entirely my own and do not represent those of my employer. Everything here is written in my personal capacity unless explicitly stated otherwise.