In this conversation Ben speaks to Tom Szirtes, co-founder and CTO at BODYSWAPS.

Tom’s career has been heavily influenced by his passion for both music and for video games. He describes how these shaped his early professional years, and the convoluted journey that led Tom into the world of virtual reality.

He discusses the choice between specialisation and generalism that engineers face when they reach managerial seniority, and how personality type impacts the decision. Tom reflects on the way that happiness can be found in mitigating our innate urge towards control freakery, and how being yourself, authentically, around people who share our interests and values is the most effective way to grow our network.