Who I am & where I'm going

I'm Stanley Blyth — a project coordinator and PGCE-qualified teacher currently based in Hong Kong.

My background is in environmental management. I've spent the last several years moving between education, project coordination, and an ongoing curiosity about how systems — biological, social, technical — actually work. I have a habit of going three layers deeper than necessary into things that interest me. This site is where that ends up.

Teaching gave me something that environmental work alone didn't: a structured way of thinking about how people learn and how to explain complex things clearly. I still use that every day, even when I'm not in a classroom. The ability to break something down until it makes sense — then rebuild it — shapes most of how I approach problems.

Hong Kong is where I live and work. It's fast, dense, and genuinely interesting. I run, I read, I think about the future, and I spend more time than most people would consider reasonable going deep on things that catch my attention.

The long-term goal is a farm — somewhere in the UK or Ireland, land and animals and a vegetable patch, a kind of deliberate, intentional life built around tangible work and real cycles. That's not imminent. But it's the direction, and having a clear direction matters.

Alongside that, there's a book project I've been developing: a cultural history of food origins and the civilisations that shaped what we eat. It's about where things come from — not just geographically but historically and anthropologically.

This website is where I think out loud.