Hi there, I'm Amit 👋
I help mission-driven organisations understand and use their data. Head of Data at Access Social Care. I build open-source tools, write about data strategy, and make a video series on how data actually works in practice — not how textbooks say it does.
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Updated April 2026 - London
Making a video series called Data in the Real World - short, honest explanations of how data works in organisations, not how textbooks say it does. Thirteen episodes in.
Also working to make my existing writing more findable - structured data, schema.org markup, making the work attributable in both search and AI systems.
Trying to understand how I think by maintaining a structured knowledge vault. The vault is a map of mental models. Keeping it accurate is the same as keeping my thinking accurate.
Working on my house. Right now: the stairs.
I visit the makerspace when I can. Nothing on the bench this month.
Deep in the question of whether an AI system can meaningfully improve its own workflow over time. Tracking every session, scoring them, running monthly rollups. The answer so far: maybe, slowly, with a lot of scaffolding.
Also building automation with N8N and testing what is actually worth automating versus what just feels productive.
Experimenting with digital envelope budgeting - pre-committing money to categories before spending rather than tracking after. The hypothesis is that pre-commitment changes behaviour more than post-hoc tracking.
Reading and thinking about what good parenting actually looks like at this age - not the anxious kind, the deliberate kind.
Trying to be more intentional about friendships. At this stage of life they don't maintain themselves.
Staying genuinely connected to people doing interesting work - former colleagues, people I meet at events. Less transactional, more real.