Month April 2025

Many years ago, I was the first person I knew to purchase a Wi-Fi router. I remember people coming over to the house and asking how I could get on the internet without wires plugged into my laptop. Fast forward…

I wrote the other day about the fact that I cannot seem to stay asleep. Turns out that this has some wonderful consequences. One of the best parts of the day is the time in the house when there’s nobody…

Over the last 9 months or so, my body has decided that a life long experiment with more or less perfect sleep was a waste of time. It decided that instead of falling off to sleep easily, and then staying…

I have kids, well, I did have kids. Now I have adults. One of the trickiest moments to navigate as a parent is when your kid, the one that you fed, picked up when they fell, soothed when they worried,…

I see this quite a bit in the industry I work in. People come along and talk with great certainty. Great certainly about their ability. Great certainty about how you should run your business. Great certainty that they have some…

Most people will encounter a breadth of opinions and viewpoints about almost every issue. You think one thing, and it turns out that many of the people you know think differently. Over time, I think that this exposure to alternative…

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice. No idea who said this first, but follow it, and I suspect that you’ll have a jolly fine life.

In the UK, we’re really quite far north. If you live in North America, take out a map and trace a line horizontally from London to your part of the world, you might be surprised just how far north we…

I’m sure that if you were a citizen of any of the following empires at the height of their power, you’d have had no idea that it was possible that the empire would one day come to an end. “We…