Off Duty

DANCE

I accidentally turned Tango into a business.

I started dancing Argentine Tango because I liked Argentine Tango.

Reasonable enough.

Then I started a Tango school and community in Sweden and ran it for five years.

Less reasonable.

Along the way I learned how to teach, organise events, build community, market something without becoming unbearable, price things, deal with customers, manage cash flow, and perform the minor weekly miracle of getting human beings into a room at the same time.

Turns out running a one-person business teaches you quite a lot about business.

It also teaches you that filling a Tuesday-night Tango class is basically GTM with better shoes.

I still dance.

Tango survived the business model.

MOVE

My other operating system has a pelvis.

I've spent years exploring movement, somatics and embodiment alongside my technical career.

And a fairly unreasonable amount of time investigating what happens when humans stop trying to understand everything from the neck upwards.

And some becomes immediately obvious when somebody asks you to balance on one leg.

WANDER

I have moved around a bit.

Plus a fair amount of wandering elsewhere.

I've lived across languages, cultures and different assumptions about how humans are supposed to organise themselves.

It probably explains some of my fascination with context.

The same behaviour can mean something completely different depending on the system around it.

Apparently this applies to both humans and metadata.

THE OTHER BODY OF WORK

And then there's all this.

For more than a decade, I've also had an entirely different body of work around movement, embodiment, somatics, intimacy and human experience.

It doesn't need to be squeezed into my Knowledge Architecture career to make either one more legitimate.

If you're curious about that side of the graph, it has its own home:

Different website. Different ontology. Same human.

FUN FACT / CONSENT FAILURE

I have technically appeared on Netflix.

My participation was somewhat... a surprise.

Footage of me was used without my consent in the Tantric Sex episode of Netflix's (Un)Well.

So technically:

I made it onto Netflix.

My consent didn't.

0/10 consent architecture.

Would not recommend the implementation.

SILICA & SOUL

I've spent part of my life working with silicon, APIs, documentation, AI and technical systems.

And another part working with bodies, movement, learning and human experience.

I don't particularly need to turn that into an inspirational LinkedIn lesson.

I'm just interested in both.