Hi, I'm Benjamin Parry

I'm originally from London 🇬🇧, went to university in Philadelphia 🇺🇸, lived for 6 months in 佛山 🇨🇳, and am now based in Toronto 🇨🇦.

I co-founded and lead policy at Build Canada a network for builders who want to help Canada reach its potential as the most prosperous nation on earth.

I am also building The Toronto Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. An experiment in intellectual infrastructure for the next 100 years.

I'm interested in questions about how people, organisations, and societies become competent and the ways that we can understand what it means to be human - experiences, science, economics, morals, religion - in terms of skills. I research these questions at Skillful Notes.

For this work, I'm influenced by Christopher Alexander, William James, James J. Gibson, Michael Polanyi, Charles Taylor, Matthew Crawford, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michael Pollon, Thich Nhat Hanh, and C.S. Lewis if you're likewise interested in any of their work I'd love to talk.

另外，我每天说和读中文。我的目标是有一天能够读写跟我的英语水平差不多一样。如果您想跟我交谈，请告诉我！

You can reach me at ben@benparry.ca.

P.S. don't drain