About

I’ve spent a lot of my life surrounded by wildly talented, creative people. People who can dream something up from nothing, translate a feeling into an image, or bring an idea to life in a way that makes you stop and look twice.

And for a long time, I never really put myself in that same category.

I’ve always been more of a finder. Discovering people, pieces, and ideas, then bringing them together. Seeing potential in things, recognising the little details, and knowing when something just fits. I’ve always loved that part of the process, but I never really thought of it as creativity.

Maybe it was self-doubt. Maybe a little imposter syndrome. Or maybe I just hadn’t found the right space to see that part of myself.

It’s funny how long we can spend looking at ourselves through someone else’s lens. How easily we can decide that because we don’t create in the same way as the people around us, we must be something else entirely.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much of creativity is actually about the way we see the world.

The things we notice. The stories we’re drawn to. The instinct that tells us something is special, even when we can’t quite articulate why. The ability to bring together seemingly unrelated things and make them feel like they were always meant to be together.

Maybe I’ve been doing this all along. I just didn’t have the language for it.

And maybe getting older has a way of helping us recognise what lights us up. We become a little less concerned with fitting into someone else’s definition of who we should be and a little more curious about what feels true to us.

I’m learning that not everything needs to be figured out before you follow it. Sometimes you just have to pay attention to what keeps pulling you in. Trust the instinct. Make a little room. See where it takes you.

Because the more I think about it, the more I realise that finding has always been its own kind of creating.

And perhaps the next chapter isn’t about becoming someone different. It’s about recognising the parts of myself that have been there all along, and finally giving them a little more space.

Your gut and heart usually know the way. You just have to quiet the noise enough to hear them.

It’s pretty cool what happens when you start listening.

I’m a nerdy outdoorsman who’s just as comfortable on a mountain peak or waist-deep in a river as I am tableside in a TTRPG session or in a hackathon with devs. My passions are varied, and may seem antithetical at first, but this variety and opposition is tension that forms balance; the same kind that I strive to find in partnerships, products, content, and life.