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About Me

Bio in a Nutshell

I’m Jonathan Pincas - the creator of Say No! to the Office.  I’m originally from London but I now live in the small city of Leon in Spain.

Before I started university, I trained as a English (EFL) teacher and spent a year teaching English in London, where I grew up. I continued to teach whilst studying Languages and Linguistics at Cambridge and spent a summer teaching young adults and not-so-young adults at Ceran, in the Belgian Ardenne forest, close to Spa.

After graduating in Linguistics, I moved to Guildford, UK, to study for a Master of Research degree, then PhD, in the areas of acoustic phonetics and speech perception (in the Electrical Engineering Faculty).  If you’re crazy enough to be interested, check out my academic research into amplitude modulation in voiced fricatives!

After spending my first PhD year in Malaga, Spain, I returned and founded The Tapas Lunch Company (Spanish food import to the UK, wholesale and online retail) with my partner, Jessica, in late 2005. Whilst continuing academic research, I developed the company (and my own entrepreneurial skills) to the point where, in 2008, we were able to move to where we really wanted to be - Spain.

Along the way, I have consulted for a linguistic technology start-up, helped and advised others on setting up businesses and implementing business processes, written and published academic articles, and set up this website to discuss and investigate entrepreneurship, business and new technologies from a variety of angles (read the Say No! to the Office backstory here).

I love cooking and eating, drinking, rock music and technology.

Freelancing

I take on freelance writing and other consultancy work for challenging and interesting projects that suit my skillset. If you are interested, here is my personal sales blurb:

“As an entrepreneur, researcher, linguist, teacher and ‘digital-native’, I have a large skill set ready to turbocharge any project requiring an intelligent, technology-oriented, multidisciplinary, research-based approach and professional delivery. I am available for all types of work on a freelance basis.”

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