I’m Mark Calleja (a.k.a. MrC), a rogue pedagogue and creative technologist. I make projects, tools, and workshops that help people feel clever, capable, and up for having a go.
A lot of my work starts with “I can’t do this” and ends with “hang on, I just made that.” I take the same approach to AI: helping people use it in ways that are useful, playful, and genuinely illuminating.
Most of his work begins with “I can’t do this” and ends with someone staring at their own finished prototype in mild disbelief. I have been obliged to catalogue these incidents.
What I do (on purpose)
Curriculum, activities, and resources that start with curiosity, add just enough challenge, and end with confidence. Instructional bait, competence traps, and carefully staged encounters with understanding. Subjects often arrive uncertain and leave carrying skills they did not consent to developing so quickly.
Hands-on builds, tiny experiments, and interactive demos that teach concepts without the lecture fumes. Hands-on builds, tiny systems, and practical experiments that turn abstract ideas into material fact. The objects produced are usually harmless. Usually.
Sessions that feel like a game, stay inclusive, and still land the learning outcomes (yes, really). Workshops, facilitation, and guided collective incidents in which groups become more capable than expected. Witnesses often describe the process as enjoyable, which remains professionally unsettling.
Currently
I work with brilliant humans to ship coding projects and learning pathways that
are practical, accessible, and unapologetically fun. My special move is making
the learning feel like play — without losing the rigour. I call it 'hiding the vegetables'.
He works with a small assembly of highly capable humans to produce coding projects and learning pathways that appear playful, accessible, and broadly harmless. This is, in structural terms, camouflage. The rigour is still there. It has simply been wrapped in delight and released into the environment where unsuspecting visitors mistake it for fun. Many begin casually. Some leave with new skills, altered confidence, and the first signs of methodological curiosity. The phrase he uses is “hiding the vegetables”. I regard this as an admission.
