William
Pickup

Making things slowly, thinking things through

William Pickup is a retired IT architect with over twenty-five years in enterprise systems design mostly in telecommunications and finance — who now divides his time between travelling, reading and making things in the workshop.

This blog is a record of that practice: notes on making, reading, slow living, and the practises that underpin all three.

A long-running thread through all of it is the pursuit of a simpler life through natural health, growing food, and building the things you need rather than buying them.

I had a rewarding professional career in IT, starting out as a programmer on mainframes (PL1), working my way through the evolution of minicomputers (Qantel & VAX) and then learning C and modern languages as they were developed (VB, C++, Ruby). In the latter part of my journey I specialised in Architecture and team management.

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Areas of Practice

• Lutherie Musical instrument making, guitar construction
• Simple Living Self-reliance, natural health, slow food
• Writing Books, ideas, systems thinking, wellbeing
• Running Long distance, trails, physical practice

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