The laptop closes around 6pm. Here's what you'll find me doing instead.

This is what I do when I am not in front of a screen — or sometimes still in front of a screen but for entirely different reasons.

Most of it is unimpressive. All of it is honest.

I started running properly in my mid-thirties. The math was simple: a laptop life pairs badly with not moving. Half marathons turned out to be the sweet spot — long enough to require respect, short enough to fit a Saturday morning.

Race log so far: handful of half marathons across London, training plans built around 4 to 5 sessions per week, current half-marathon PB sits in the low 1:50s. The goal for the next year is sub-1:45.

Most-run routes: Hyde Park to Battersea Park loops, Regent's Park early Sunday mornings, the Thames Path when the weather holds.

V60 every morning. Light roasts almost always. The pour-over ritual matters as much as the result — five minutes of doing one thing carefully before the day starts.

Beans rotate by season. Right now mostly working through Square Mile and Origin. Have a soft spot for Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and Kenyan SL28 lots.

Favorite London cafes: Monmouth (Borough), Workshop (Marylebone), Black Sheep, Origin (Charlotte Street). When traveling, the rule is: find the one cafe that local baristas talk about, not the one Yelp ranks first.

Beagle dad first. Then girl dad. Both happened roughly the same year, and both have changed how I think about time.

The beagle is opinionated, food-motivated, and has the standard beagle disregard for recall when there is a scent worth following. We walk a lot. He has read more London parks than I have.

Being a girl dad reframes the calendar in ways I am still figuring out. Best decision I have made for work was making the school run non-negotiable.

Mostly business and technology, some history, occasional fiction. Books that have actually changed how I work in the last year:

• The Great CEO Within — Matt Mochary
• Working Backwards — Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz (re-read)
• Build — Tony Fadell
• Showing Up for Life — Bill Gates Sr.

Always open to recommendations. The best ones come through people who do the work, not the people who write about doing the work.

Born in India. Family business in jewelry and gemstones — that is where I learned about operations, customer trust, and the long game.

Built Seahawk from India, scaled it across continents, then moved to London to be close to a different corner of the WordPress and tech ecosystem. London has been home for the last few years and feels like it for the foreseeable.

Travel is mostly to Seahawk team hubs — Florida, New Delhi, Ahmedabad — plus the WordCamp circuit when scheduling allows.

Most professional sites are hero photo, services, contact form. They give you nothing about the person behind the work.

I think that is a missed opportunity. The way someone runs is a tell. The way they pick coffee is a tell. The way they talk about their family is a tell. If you are weighing whether to work with me, this is where the actual signal lives.

If anything here resonates and you want to chat — about WordPress, running, coffee, or something else —book a 30-minute call. No agenda required.

Off-screen also means: spending too much time tuning the toolchain. Here is what powers most of what I ship in 2026.

Headless first — Next.js for product sites, Astro for content-heavy ones, Supabase for everything that needs a database. Vercel and Netlify share hosting duties depending on whether the build needs cron or pure static.

I write code with Claude Code and Codex, increasingly handing off whole loops to agentic tooling rather than typing. The shift in the last twelve months has been bigger than React was in its first year. Production posts now go from idea to live in two hours, with humanizer and quality gates in between.

For images and video — FAL with flux-pro/v1.1-ultra and Imagen 4. For voice and writing — Claude Sonnet 4-6 and Haiku 4-5 in concert, the latter doing translation at build time across eight locales. Sometimes I miss the days when none of this existed and I just wrote things. The trade is worth it.