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The Unemployables

Nov 14, 2025

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5 min read

The Unemployables

At a certain point in your career, you stop being a candidate and start being a threat.

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Enough

Sep 26, 2025

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4 min read

Enough

Or how to spot a Porg

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My current systems (Q3 2025)

Sep 19, 2025

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9 min read

My current systems (Q3 2025)

What runs the Volcano Base?

Innovation

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Curiosity Patch Notes

Sep 12, 2025

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4 min read

Curiosity Patch Notes

Where enthusiasm and experience play musical chairs

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Drawing lines in the digital sand

Aug 22, 2025

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4 min read

Drawing lines in the digital sand

Computers are indifferent sand

Work

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The proposal that wasn’t

Aug 1, 2025

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5 min read

The proposal that wasn’t

How do you write a brief if you don't know what's possible?

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An Ideal Customer Profile walks into a bar...

Jul 25, 2025

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5 min read

An Ideal Customer Profile walks into a bar...

Searching for patterns over profiles

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243 days later

Jul 4, 2025

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6 min read

243 days later

So far so good. Wish me ongoing luck, please

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Schrödinger’s employee

Jun 13, 2025

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5 min read

Schrödinger’s employee

On being both integral and entirely external

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What a difference a day makes

Apr 11, 2025

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6 min read

What a difference a day makes

You can get a lot done in a day

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First trimester

Mar 20, 2025

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4 min read

First trimester

Earlier this week someone asked me what I’d been making since starting on this adventure

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Tazzing about

Mar 6, 2025

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4 min read

Tazzing about

From explorations into AI cinema to the dual carriageways of Kent

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Quantum of Slipper

Feb 20, 2025

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4 min read

Quantum of Slipper

The weirder the technology gets, the more of it I'm doing

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Turning a corner

Feb 13, 2025

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4 min read

Turning a corner

For the first time this year, I feel like I’m making a difference

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Stop working so hard

Jan 23, 2025

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4 min read

Stop working so hard

Many small business owners feel like they’re on a hamster wheel. I help them get off it.

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The small business advantage

Jan 16, 2025

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5 min read

The small business advantage

This week I’ve been really grateful for some help from friends

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Free-fall parachute crochet

Jan 9, 2025

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6 min read

Free-fall parachute crochet

Take it from me - you can try to crochet a parachute while in free-fall, but it won’t work. You will eventually hit the ground. Hard. It’ll hurt.

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Operation Monorail

Dec 19, 2024

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6 min read

Operation Monorail

The offer is taking shape

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Fear is the mind killer

Dec 13, 2024

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4 min read

Fear is the mind killer

Starting to document my crash-and-burn

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