About
I am a consultant, author, crypto trader and longevity biohacker based in Sydney. I run two businesses and use AI tools across all of them, daily, commercially, without apology. I am not writing about AI from a position of opposition. I am writing from the position of someone who depends on these tools and has watched friends and fellow content producers start to believe that their personal voice is what the AI is putting out.
I go demented when I see an em dash. When everything matters. When everything is actually something, or explicitly something, or genuinely something. When every second construction is 'it's not x, it's y'. I am sick of it. Every attempt to fix it in my own output has been thwarted, even when I force-feed AI agents my personal writing protocol. So I went down a rabbit hole on how to use the good and mitigate the bad.
The world needs persuasion and inspiration through words. Most of us have a gap between the miraculously persuasive arguments in our heads and what we manage to put down on paper. The promise of AI is to bridge this gap so that our thoughts have meaning and we can share our wisdom. This is why I persist in using AI for writing and communicating and persuading. I believe if we harness the good bits, we can improve how we share and collaborate. Otherwise we are the Neanderthal in the equation, and AI is whatever comes next.
The projects
Medius Global is my advisory. We exist to help GP practices thrive and give the very best patient outcomes. The work is wisdom mining: looking into the best brains of the Australian health sector and bringing that knowledge to light in new and interesting ways. In practice this means content strategy, information products, stakeholder engagement and business development for health and adjacent sectors.
Slow Ageing is a consumer-facing lifespan management platform connected to my book series. Evidence-based healthy ageing, longevity science, biohacking, skin health and lifestyle medicine.
Humphrey and Zoo are digital products in development across health and business.
iaso health is where we help health, wellness and medical businesses find new ways to communicate with patients and clients. We develop educational products for consumers and build knowledge systems that fuel chatbots and other interesting ways to influence people about their health.
The writing
I co-authored Fast Living, Slow Ageing with Prof Merlin Thomas (25,000+ copies sold). I co-designed SLOWBot, a published AI coaching chatbot for healthy ageing built with Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (ACM Digital Library, 2018). I have spent 20 years in communications, content strategy and business development spanning primary care, digital health, NFPs and health technology.
I trade crypto, build digital products, and use AI tools across all of it. The gremlins are a professional hazard.