Our Stoptober

The idea of Stoptober is, at least in the UK, to stop drinking or smoking. It’s used as a marketing gimmick by so many companies that have a vested interest in selling you things, but the premise is great. Considering myself and my wife don’t smoke, nor drink

🔗 How platforms turn boring

Russell Brandom for The Verge: > I call it the Bootleg Ratio: the delicate balance between A) content created by users specifically for the platform and B) semi-anonymous clout-chasing accounts drafting off the audience. Any platform will have both, but as B starts to overtake A, users will

Dinner Date

Not very often I post what I am randomly up to but my wife took me to Cinco Lounge for dinner the other night and it was fantastic. The right mix of weirdness (I think they call I chic) and excellent food - I had Wan Chai Fried Rice Bowl with

Being Lonely

It was only fairly recently I came to the realisation that I was chronically lonely. Granted, there are a few of you out there that I do consider friends that I have met online, but I’ve never had many real life friends. Those that I organically picked up through

My Blog, My Escape

The importance of having something that you can fully focus on and forget the world for a bit is becoming more and more obvious to me. Perhaps it is because the world sucks and the moment, and there is always some kind of bad news just around the corner. Or

The Importance Of Remembering

Starting this post took longer to work out than almost any post I have written. Where do you start when the subject you want to talk about is so devastating, but still important to think about. I guess fair warning, this post could upset some people as it discusses children

🔗 It’s just not that good

Seth Godin writing about things being good: > Not that good for who? If you mean to say, “I don’t like it, it doesn’t appeal to me,” then that’s what you should say. > > If, on the other hand, you have enough expertise and domain knowledge

This might be the last time I do this

When I was younger, I had to go with my grandad to church. He was, what I used to think of as a hardcore Christian, that was until I had been exposed to Americans. He never missed a service, and I hated going. All the excuses I could think of

Lucie loves shoes

I guess one of the things you realise when you have kids, or you're around a lot of them, is that they all have weird obsessions. You expect the usual superheroes, or horses or fire engines, but my daughter is obsessed with shoes! She just loves them, and

Oh! This isn't good enough!

Since moving to a new domain and trying to put all the things I create together online, I've been feeling a bit of pressure. Granted, completely self-imposed, but a very real tinge of anxiety to be better at what I publish there. A noble pursuit but one