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Last updated 18 October 2026

If we hadn’t caught up in a while, or I was just getting to know you, this is some of what I’d tell you.

Home. I’m dad to two kids. We live just north of Byron Bay in the Northern Rivers, on Bundjalung and Yugambeh Country. My kids are unschooled, so our days are pretty unconventional, finding what I like to think of as the spaces in-between. I co-parent with their mum so they are with me a little less than half the time. Living the reality of my children having two homes is part of why I started building Kindred.

Me. I’m single. After 17 years with my kids’ mum, being single in my late 30s is hard. I never expected to be parenting on my own. I’m very lucky to have supportive friends and family and my kids are being raised in a multi-generational home. Not quite the village I imagined but we’re chipping away at it.

The last couple of years have held some of my highest highs and lowest lows and have taught me a lot about myself, how I show up for the people I care about and what’s important to me. I want an intimate partner I can share my life with but I’m very intentionally not on any dating apps, because that’s not the way I choose to make connections.

I share this because it’s part of why I want to build fulfilling relationships with people doing their best work on projects that really matter, however long that lasts. Life is short so I want authenticity with the people I choose to work with, and real connection with my kids, family, friends and place.

Work. I work a 4 day week. Through my own clients with Fractional by Nature and in strategic partnerships with studios like In Good Company and Today.

I’m well known for the front seat of my 4x4 being where I take meetings and I get some of my focused work done when I’m on the road, optimising the time it takes to get out in nature and do things with my people.

What I’m building. I’m building a portfolio of smallish bets, having made a commitment to advocate for and make incremental progress on my own business interests instead of getting caught up only helping build other people’s ideas.

Fractional by Nature is my consultancy, providing technology strategy and hands-on delivery for purpose-driven organisations.

I’ve already mentioned Kindred, the co-parenting app for the whole journey. It started as an experiment and I’m not sure where it’s going to go, but I imagine it won’t be the last thing I work on to try to make co-parenting easier.

My other projects all sit under the Open Campus Project umbrella where I’ve been exploring alternative learning pathways and edu tech.

The element of that I’m putting most energy into at the moment is HelloMaker. Looking to help kids and their parents build a confident, conscious relationship with technology.

The bigger picture. I see three things as one triple threat. We’ve grown apart, from each other and from nature, and it shows in how we feel. We’re asking more of the planet than it can give. And AI is being built to serve growth first, even though I believe technology can do real good. They’re why I unschool my kids, and where my next decade of work is going. It’s also why I’m trying to build a working life that fits around the life I want, not the other way around: enough income, but also enough time, and work my kids would be proud of.

Looking for. I’ve been remote for more than 10 years and sometimes that can be really lonely. I’d love more collaboration in my life, and more developers, designers and technologists in the for-purpose space getting together intentionally. In Good Company is part of that. I’m always up for a yarn with values-aligned people over good beer and good food, and maybe a cool project if that’s where the conversation goes.

Away from the screen. When I’m not working you’ll find me barefoot, off-grid, and as far from screens and signals as my 4x4 will get me and my kids. My kids and I love camping and it still always amazes me how much more settled they are in nature, even in their own swags, when at home they don’t want to sleep alone.