About this site

Curious, Inquisitive, and just a little chaotic.

Conscious Intelligence (CI) is my independent platform for exploring the intersections of technology, energy, finance, and intelligence. It’s a space where I can step back from the day-to-day of corporate life and look at the bigger picture: the messy, fascinating, sometimes frustrating world of systems, ideas, and the future we’re building.

I write here entirely in a personal capacity. These are my own reflections, questions, and experiments. CI isn’t about offering professional services or company strategy; it’s about curiosity, critique, and connecting the dots between fields that often talk past each other.

What you’ll find here

• Explainers that cut through complexity without dumbing things down.
• Culture and commentary that keep technology grounded in people and context.
• Energy and finance insights that explore transitions, trade-offs, and unintended consequences.
• A playful but serious look at intelligence in its many forms: human, artificial, and collective.

About the author

About the Author

By day, Matt Wapples helps utilities and customers unlock the power of distributed energy resources. By night, he blends curiosity, logic, and a touch of chaos to make sense of technology, markets, and the future of power.

His perspective is built on deep experience across the energy and technology sector. He has worked for a utility, advised through consultancy, and helped scale distributed energy platforms internationally. Alongside this, he completed an Executive MBA at Imperial College London, adding a strategic and global lens to hands-on industry knowledge.

Beyond energy, Matt has always kept one foot in exploration and entrepreneurship. He taught scuba diving in Thailand during a year out, and ran Feiyue sneakers into Europe, securing partnerships with major retailers including Urban Outfitters.

Life and work have taken him across London, Germany, Thailand, Singapore, Tokyo, and now Atlanta. That journey has shaped a global perspective and a restless curiosity. Conscious Intelligence (CI) is his way of connecting those dots — exploring how culture, technology, finance, energy, and intelligence collide to shape the systems we all live in.

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"I started CI because I wanted a space that could be witty, editorial, and a little unpolished. A counterbalance to slide decks and boardroom polish.

Think of it as a modern zine: ideas sketched in real time, meant to spark thought and conversation"

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