I did it. I gave a workshop at CERN and I didn't die! We did breathing, yoga, free writing, tarot exercises, branching narratives, meaningful choices & procedural generation! I referenced the work of @larianstudios @framebunker @martinpi @mtrc @iotar & more.

The Warburg Institute have finally opened up bookings for their tarot exhibition which is on until April (I've been checking every few days!). Mar and I will be visiting on April 4th if any London friends want to join us! It looks absolutely BRILLIANT: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/tar…

New year, new edition of my game writing course at the @IrishWritersCtr! If you know anyone who would enjoy getting weird with words, send em this way 🙏

If you know anyone interested in learning about writing for games, I'm running another course at the @IrishWritersCtr after my last one sold out! The next one will be across 4 evenings, starting mid-January 🙏 irishwriterscentre.ie/course…

Super excited to get to talk about the books I’m reading, loving, & recommending with Rock Paper Shotgun this week!

We had a great time chatting about Solzhenitsyn last week - join us for the next book club! This one is weird, dark, beautiful & you will be glad you read it ❤️

We believe VC should be open source. That's why we're releasing the first ever 💥Ada Ventures Impact Report today 💥 To read the report: docsend.com/view/7tmkpk55p7c… Since we launched, we've tried to be as transparent as possible about how we're building Ada Ventures and how we make our investment decisions. We do this because: 1️⃣ We believe being open helps VCs do better by removing places to hide 2️⃣ We want other people to see, adopt and evolve our ideas 3️⃣ We want to be held to account and know where we could do better Today we're taking that one step further. This report dives into our thesis, our impact, and the current portfolio in a ton of detail. We're laying it all out on the table. Insights include: 1️⃣Progress against our Inclusive Alpha® goals 2️⃣How our Ada Scout and Angel programmes are developing, inc.: 👉 In Ada Fund II, 6/19 (32%) investments so far have been sourced by Ada Scouts 👉The Ada Scouts have helped us reach 6x more all-Black teams and 10x more all-female teams than the UK benchmarks 3️⃣Diversity stats for our portfolio, inc.: 👉78% of Fund I and II companies have an underrepresented founder 👉56% have a woman founder (vs 28% of wider market – IWC 2024) 👉76% have a founder from an ethnic minority 4️⃣Growth stats from a selection of our portfolio companies - showing that inclusion and outsized returns go hand-in-hand. Thank you to everyone who helped bring this report to life including: @checkwarner (Founding Partner), Shanika Amarasekara MBE (Venture Partner: Impact), Xun Ning Choong, (Head of Operations and Impact Lead) and Carla Adol Designs. We are also grateful for the support we’ve had from the Limited Partner community. Thanks to their belief and backing, we now have £120m of assets under management. We’d like to highlight and thank the LPs who contributed to this report including: Joe Shamash, Investment Director, @BetterSocCap Ken Cooper, Managing Director, Venture Solutions, @BritishBBank Tamara Savic, Senior Investment Manager, @Eifo_fond Dr Catherine Martin, Vice-Principal, Corporate Services, @EdinburghUni Betsy Zimmerman, Co-Founding GP, @close_first The report highlights case studies of the high impact companies and founders we’ve backed including: The @EstherGiving team lead by Carol Rossborough The @FlexaHQ team lead by Molly Johnson-Jones The @organisehq team lead by Nat Whalley The @greenworkx_ team lead by Mat Ilic The @Blakbear_ team lead by Dr. Max Grell Phd The @oxmedprod team lead by Dr. Camilla Easter The @ToothFairy_app team lead by Dr. Deepak Singh Aulak The @researchgrid team lead by Dr. Amber Michelle Hill, PhD We would love to hear your feedback on these metrics and insights.

There are just 2 spots left, if you know anyone who might be interested!

IN 3 DAYS✨ 📚 Dive into the life of Ivan Denisovich with @alphachar in our Western Canon Book Club! This short, impactful read follows an innocent man in a Soviet labor camp fighting for dignity. A perfect winter book! interintellect.com/salon/wes…

Had an amazing evening yesterday thanks to @IrlEmbDenmark - premiere screening of the new @KNEECAPCEOL movie with fun street reception beforehand. Absolutely loved it: major league craic! 🇮🇪

Join us! This will be a lot of fun for us creative narrative folks 🙌

I'll be teaching a little taster series on writing for video games with the @IrishWritersCtr later this month - 2 Saturday mornings, lots of exercises & we'll finish with everyone publishing something! irishwriterscentre.ie/course…

We shut down our latest product today. Bittersweet! Sad we couldn't make it work out financially, but extremely excited about our next steps: stay tuned for our wild pivot in the coming weeks 🙇‍♀️