Xpander

My good friend Dave told me about a great little tool the other day: TextExpander. It’s great if you’re often creating content that repeats certain elements – templates and so on. You set up a library of snippets and when you type the appropriate...

Always On My Mind

Some book decisions I’ve made, following a few weeks of thinking about it before I get time to actually work on it: It’ll be concise and relatively short I’ll produce a PDF only (for now at least) It’ll be aimed at parents (I’d struggled...

Libra

In the emerging world of cryptocurrency, Facebook’s Libra project is looking shaky. Here’s the latest word: Libra is likely to miss its scheduled 2020 launch Politicians, officials and regulators have warned that the project carries risks for financial stability...

Strategy

Nir Eyal used to show tech companies how they could get and keep people’s attention. He wrote a book on it called Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products. The “hook model” he developed advocates building a “mind monopoly” by associating a product with...

Be Someone

Do you want to be your own boss? I realised that I did when I saw this TV ad when I was 17: I discovered that no one teaches you how to be a freelancer. You just have to work it out. Listen to others who have done it successfully, heed advice from those who know, and,...