About

I am:

  • an MBA graduate of Nanyang Business School, Singapore, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC. I also have an MSc in Computer Science. My Bachelor’s degree is in International Relations.
  • international. My roots are in the Romano-British culture and green hills of Wales. I’ve lived in the mountains of the Roof of Africa1, the heart of the Middle Kingdom2, and a post-modern Eastern Port3. I’ve also worked in the Paris of the South4, the Land of the Morning Calm5, and 7 member states of the EU. To varying degrees, I speak English, Welsh, French, and some Mandarin. I hope to add Bahasa Indonesia in the mid-term; long-term, Japanese would be nice as well. I used to know some Afrikaans and Sesotho, but I’ve sadly forgotten it all now.
  • experienced as a consultant, in the field of innovative personal development techniques. I have worked in career and lifestyle training services for managers in multi-national corporations. I’ve also worked as a marketing consultant for SMEs.
  • a knowledge engineer, with lots of experience in on-line learning, knowledge management, and information architecture.
  • contactable via gmail: cyberpunk.mystic

This blog started off on blogspot as a record of my application for a place on an MBA, and as a record of my subsequent MBA experience. It’s migrated across a couple of blog platforms since then, and these days vaguely relates to a lot of themes that are covered in cyberpunk literature:

  • The impact of technology on humanity – and on our understanding of what it means to be human
  • Environmental degradation, its effects, and responses to it
  • Ubiquitous access to information and advanced technology
  • Attempts by governments and the corporate sector to use technology to commodify, control, and exploit individuals.
  • Attempts by individuals and self-identified communities to use technology to resist those attempts
  • The globalisation of the economy, and its effects on governments, corporations, and individuals
  • The responses, and interactions, of traditional and emergent cultures

… as well as being about China, Singapore, Wales, and other things that mean a lot to me. As such, this blog is a record of my personal interests and journey, and (oblig. disclaimer) do not represent the views of any employer or employers, past or present.

1 Lesotho

2 Beijing, China

3 Singapore

4 Buenos Aires

5 Korea