My name is Paul Bartlett, and I am a dabbler.

But despite the AA-style introduction, I’m not looking to “cure” myself of this; just to be more effective in what I do. I realise that time is a precious commodity, and that spreading myself too thin might seem a bit wasteful, but having many and wide-ranging interests seems to be a strong and long-lived trait of who I am, so I intend to embrace it!

dabble, verb. Gerund or present participle: dabbling

  1. immerse (one’s hands or feet) partially in water and move them around gently: “they dabbled their feet in the rock pools”
  2. take part in an activity in a casual or superficial way: “he dabbled in left-wing politics”
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