The Anti-Startup

Sometimes poetry speaks to you in ways you never imagined, even when it is facile, obvious and down-right pedestrian. This poem was written nine years ago."AMERICA IS A GUN" by Brian BilstonEngland is a cup of tea.France, a wheel of ripened brie.Greece, a

Let me start by saying, whilst I have a keen eye for what is fair, I am not a lawyer. That said, I feel like I have a very good sense of what is 'legal' and also what is outside my area of expertise for knowing if it is 'legal'.What I don't like is compan

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. This is not an absolute law of people and data but when I orient my approach to thinki

Me: "How many visits does your website get a month?" Them: "Around 100,000 visits."Me: "How are you measuring that, client site analytics or server side?"Them: "Client side... Google Analytics.. why does it matter?"Me: "40% of people have an ad-blocker in

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. I have no skin the game, I am simply a user. This is an exercise in prog

Sometimes it's worth sharing something just because you appreciate it's beauty. The poem below was written by John Clare whilst committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum in 1841, prior to this Clare claimed "I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly." an

"The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson, 2003As 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

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. That's right you have to not do something.It feels to me as if the pressure (the often subtle pressure, to do more stuff to somehow make

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 wit

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?Admittedly I've over simplified the issue