We think it’s important to really get to know our xinja work comrades; unpack what they’re really into – as you never know where that hobby/interest might come in handy when you’re designing and building a bank.
In this series, we bring you the secret lives of Xinjas; an exploration of what rocks their world.
“The trend I’m waiting to see is a move toward human-centred tech for social change”
I’m XinjaReader, and I help build and run the payments business so that each customer’s experience of making and receiving payments is beautiful.
I’m proud I get to be part of an amazing team that is making history! I know that sounds cheesy but it’s totally true.
Well I’m not called XinjaReader for nothing! Book wise: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahnemann, David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell & Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine. Caroline Paul’s TED talk is brilliant: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure
Actually the trend I’m waiting to see is a move toward human-centred tech for social change. I like the projects coming from Catalpa, they use nudge behaviours for social good.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’d have to call myself somewhat careless. I’m not a huge spendthrift or shopaholic, so I use that as an excuse not to be more organised. I just wish for easier tools and visibility – now I get to watch my talented colleagues build them. (That’s more than one sentence but we’ll let it go 😉.)
Books that I just buy, and either don’t read for months (even years 😬) or could have quite easily borrowed from the library.
Holidays. I love travelling, even with the kids in tow!
Well. Probably a fairly decent, fairly stable payments job doing fairly routine payments things, while continually scrolling LinkedIn, dreaming about the possibilities.
Erm…..I don’t really have one of those (aside from reading). On the weekends I am an unpaid Uber (otherwise known as parent) taxi-ing kids from one activity to the next.
No tattoos for me. Because a) I hope to keep changing, and tattoos are stuck in time and b) when I get old and wrinkly, they’ll look gross.
Check out other members of the xinja team here.