About

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos - Francisco Goya

The sleep of reason brings forth monsters

About William Owen

William was born in England, is married, and lives, as so many people do, just outside London. He is a man with little to recommend him. He was awarded a B in GCSE History at the age of sixteen, which marked the high point of his academic achievements. He is a dyslexic, atheist, with aphantasia, which he fully acknowledges sounds like the setup for an obscure joke to which he may be the punchline.

He has had a long career as a web developer and designer, during which he has so far spectacularly failed to utilise his hard-won history education.

William spends his time being a web developer during the day and variously pretending to write a book or talking about philosophy related subjects online.

During his arguably too-long life, William has done many odd things. These things are not especially unique, nor are they in any way impressive; however, if you like, you can ask him about them. Here are some of them, in no particular order:

• Been a referee (Zebra) for a roller derby team.
• Crashed a military server with a USB stick.
• Appeared on stage in the pantomime Aladdin.
• Attended a Buddhist funeral in Japan.
• Played guitar live on stage in Bradford.
• Drunk champagne in the Royal Albert Hall.
• Fired a black-powder musket.
• Attained the prestigious rank of Sixer as a UK Cub Scout at the age of nine.
• Was best man to his best man, which made him the bestest man.
• Spent the night sleeping on the floor of the Natural History Museum.
• Appeared on stage in a performance of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.
• Been white-water kayaking.
• Swum with dolphins and stingrays.
• Taken erotic photographs of professional models.
• Visited Disney World in Florida.
• Appeared on over 200 podcasts.
• Visited a Japanese maid café, where he and a maid performed a magic spell to make his milkshake taste better.
• Failed to be mentioned in the Epstein files.
• Attended a national pole-dancing competition (not as a performer).
• Gone scuba diving.

William is in no way qualified to talk about the things that interest him. Such things include philosophy, software development, culture, art, photography, video games, and a wide range of other topics on which, again, he is not qualified to speak. He will speak about these things, however, often at length; even if you ask him not to.