Be scared, but be careful
Recently Justin Jackson wrote a great post entitled Do things that scare you which really resonated with me. It uses a metaphor of someone dropping off the wall of a half-pipe on a skateboard: It’s …
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B2C, are you sure?
For as long as I’ve been paying the rent by selling my skills in the web industry I’ve thought that I had a product in me. Back in the late 90’s I was a wannabe .com ‘founder’ working on terrible …
Are you failing?
Right now I reckon in some way you're failing at something. I know I am, but I'm Ok with it. Seriously. To succeed you need to have criteria to define the success by. I'm a bit uneasy with the term …
JSDI
This article was originally posted on The Pastry Box in May 2014. Do you have an itch that you keep meaning to scratch? An idea that just won’t go away but life keeps getting in the way? As hard as …
Project Management Pain
TL;DR - I can't find a tool that gives me high level scheduling overview AND individual finer detail on each project going through my little studio. Below I review a bunch of tools that don't fit my …
Podcasting is hard
Image by Patrick Breitenbach You know how some people jump out of perfectly good airplanes, climb mountains or cuddle a tarantula to confront their fears? Well I launched a podcast to confront mine …
UK Smart Meter Data Access and Privacy without the hype
There's been a fair bit of press recently on the privacy issues surrounding the UK's smart meter roll-out - currently in its foundation stage (figuring out how it's actually going to work) before the …
Peak or no Peak?
I have not posted about peak oil for a long while, mainly because if people get it, they get it, and if they don't, or won't, then they are almost certainly not interested. Either way there's no point …
Buying Land with a Pension
Aerial view of our land, woods to the left Before I begin let's get the disclaimer out of the way: I'm not a financial advisor nor am I 'regulated by the Financial Services Authority' and your risk …
Electric Brompton Road Test
Background I’ve not regularly cycled since I left London 4 years ago. There I would commute circa 10 miles a day on my cheapy Raleigh hybrid. Since moving to our current house I tried my new commute …