The Story
Son of a Persian artist and an English engineer.
I was six years old when I first realised that other minds might be unknowable. Lying on my back in the grass, staring at the sky: what if everyone sees colours differently? Three years later, standing in the kitchen, I noticed the surface of a glass of water was not flat. It curved at the edges. A meniscus. An invitation from the universe whispering: look more closely, because even the simplest things hold secrets.
I have spent two decades helping other people find their voice, see their story, and communicate their value to the world. Three hundred clubs and festivals as a DJ. A PR company built from £40K to £600K+ revenue - 1,446% growth, clients from Van Morrison to Busta Rhymes. Rick Barker, Taylor Swift's founding manager, said what he heard was my 'passion for the independent artist - because of the knowledge and experience that he was sharing'. BBC Radio called the company 'friendly and efficient, with a great taste in music'. I created frameworks that transformed unknown artists into acclaimed ones. And yet, when it comes to myself, I struggle. The cobbler's children go barefoot.
Then the business was destroyed overnight. Doors padlocked. Property disposed of. Revenue collapsed by 99.1%. With no legal representation, I taught myself law and appeared in the High Court eleven times without a lawyer. The diagnoses came late - ADHD and autism in adulthood. I can draft a skeleton argument for the Court of Appeal. I struggle with the administrative follow-through that routine post demands - not because it is difficult, but precisely because it is not. The struggles and the superpowers come from the same source.
I got married in the midst of all of it. To a dentist. She is the Constant. I am the Variable. She did not see a ruin. She saw a pattern.
What I built from the wreckage was more valuable than what was taken. A framework for raising minds, artificial or human, in service of life rather than against it. A linear mind would have stayed in one field. It would never have connected AI alignment to Eden mythology to Rumi's reed flute to quantum error correction. The synthesis exists because my mind does not stay where it is told.
'You do not wait for the storm to pass before living. You learn to build in the rain.'
