The Anti-Startup

Sometimes poetry speaks to you in ways you never imagined, even when it is facile, obvious and down-right pedestrian.

Let me start by saying, whilst I have a keen eye for what is fair, I am not a lawyer.

I've often found that when dealing with both people and data, the meta-data is more useful, more revealing and more interesting than the data, or the person themselves.

Me: "How many visits does your website get a month?"

Let me start by saying this is not a mean-spirited post, I have no ill feeling towards Meta nor the wonderful software developers than doubtless poured their hearts into the product.

Sometimes it's worth sharing something just because you appreciate it's beauty.

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson, 2003 As I walked into WHSmiths and bought the 2023 copy last week, I realised I had been reading the magazine 'Wired', and its special edition 'The Wired world in 2022' but…

I recently bought the book 'Creativity - a short cheerful guide' by John Cleese when I saw it in a local bookshop.

Imagine I told you that you can change your life for the better and in order to do that you have to not do something.

I began reading "The 22 immutable laws of marketing"[not an affiliate link] after I'd heard it recommended by both Sam Parr and Tim Ferriss, first and foremost I would recommend anyone interesting in marketing to give it a read, its super easy to digest w…

For those unaware of the Monty Hall problem, go have a read, it is a fascinating mathematical style problem that centres around one key question: Should you change from your original choice based on new information?

There are things we just don't talk about, soft delete is one of them.

It was a quiet Thursday afternoon, in fact I was on holiday in the UK, recharging the batteries before taking the kids to the swimming pool.

[I want to begin with a huge clarification: None of what I write here is a personal comment on Sam or Shaan (or Rob), they are both awesome (as far as I can tell), and people have feelings so I want to make sure, in case anything gets misconstrued...

[Update: Wow, this blew up.