Alex Manthei

@alexmanthei.com

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I'm Alex (he/him/his). I live in #London but I'm from #Tucson, AZ 🌵 🧑‍💻 I’m currently… 🏦 Working at @monzo.com 🕹️ Playing Pokémon Crystal 📚 Reading The Stasi Poetry Circle by Philip Oltermann 🎧 Listening to The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast

A massive wedge-shaped railway snowplough painted deep red sits inside a historic engine shed beside a small blue steam locomotive. The side of the plough is marked ‘N.E.R. Snowplough No.18 Bishop-Auckland,’ with sunlight streaming through tall arched windows onto the stone walls and concrete platform.
An ACE graded Pokemon card of two Metagross moving snow in a snowstorm
Super Nintendo
The film poster for the movie the Taste of Things
An empty community little library box
Two widgets: Overcast and a poetry a day widget I vibe coded and Signal - that’s it
“How Not to Build a Car” by Adrian Newey F1 Formula 1 car designer
Pianos & Orgues
Jean-Luc Picard
Lego Artemis rocket
The Enterprise E at the start of First Contact.
Cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Chili cheese dosa
Cousin Greg from Succession saying “have you ever watched The Traitors?”
A white plate holds a square piece of chocolate cake topped with whipped cream and a yellow square. A white cup with a saucer and a spoon sits behind the plate. The background is a wooden table.
Classic game consoles
Hugh Grant in Love Actually
An old lamppost next to a gate
An article about how Facebook hid spam ads from regulators and journalists to save money and not remove them.
Presents under the tree
Water rushing down a Yorkshire beck
A framed print that’s says “times demand a fortifying croissant!”
“Tucson Wasteland”
“All tech is assistive.”
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Calpol like it’s a cigarette
A computer with our daughter writing “holiday” in a typeface of her own handwriting.
A screenshot of an email from Framer that says “turning Framer into a true design tool, not just a visual site builder.”
New sneakers
guillaume apollinaire and picasso
Sigur Ros at Royal Albert Hall
Wine bar in East London
A card that says “Disruptive financial technologies that redefine the relationship between banks and clients.”
What a stick!
99+ DMs in Slack
Lake Semerwater
A DVD player with a note that says “Please do not try to remove the DVD as the letter box is taped shut.”
A bunch of artworks on a wall
The Trubine Hall at Tate Modern
A book with an endorsement: “I have been reading Tim’s books for a while and I like them a lot.” - Björk