# About Me I trained and worked as an architect over 30-odd years (!), but recently have been doing more and more in the digital world. I have been aided in this transition by two things: - my lifelong interest in coding - my dad started as an operator at Littlewoods in 1962, and taught me to use a systems analysis flow-chart when I was 7, and I've been fascinated ever since. - Pattern Language - I encountered the work of Christopher Alexander in 1985 while studying architecture, and was immediately hooked. More recently (early 2000's), when I became interested in complexity, and particularly in the deep need for human tools to enable us more effectively to engage with problems like climate change, economies etc., I realised that the Pattern Language approach was not so much a tool for architecture as it was a tool for mapping complex domains.