Teaching
I teach primary children. Twenty years of rooms, patience, and keeping my public life clean. The job made me exact. It also means some wants stay off the page. I will not gamble their trust for a hotter story.
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Why People Patterns Pay Better Than Perfect Spreadsheets Ever Could
I work where maths meets minds. Behavioural data is not cold. It is noticing what people actually do, then turning that honesty into something useful, precise, and unexpectedly kind.
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What Behavioural Research Quietly Teaches You About Desire
People tell you who they are with delays, clicks, and small avoidances. Once you can read that without becoming cynical, work stops feeling abstract and starts feeling almost intimate.
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Probability At Work When Everyone Else Is Guessing Loudly
Offices love confidence. I prefer odds. A maths brain in applied psychology means you can stay warm in a meeting and still refuse a story that the numbers will not carry.
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Being Underestimated At Work And Using It Like Extra Time
Someone hears Essex and lowers the bar. Fine. I outscore the room, keep my voice even, and let the model speak. Being overlooked once is annoying. Being ready is better.
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How To Notice Micro Shifts Without Spiralling About Them
You can read a room and still have a life. Teaching attention is not the same as teaching panic. The skill is spotting change, naming it, and deciding what actually deserves your evening.
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How An Essex Girl Ended Up Trusted With Other People’s Data
I kept the warmth and dropped the cartoon. Two degrees later, the job is pattern recognition with consequences. Competence is not a personality. It is a daily practice I rather love.
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The Quiet Glamour Of Being Good At Invisible Work
Psychometrics rarely looks cinematic. Still, there is a particular pride in building models that explain real behaviour, then watching a room take you seriously because the work holds.
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Teaching Consent As Curiosity, Not A Legal Afterthought
Sloppy consent is not passion. It is laziness. The better lesson is simple: ask, notice the face, leave space, stay present. Enthusiasm and precision can live in the same sentence, happily.
