Misery Business

As I wrote yesterday, worldviews motivate our actions. Social media companies’ actions are driven by profit – like any other business’s – and that means they want our attention (to sell to their advertisers). Lots of attention = lots of profit. The live-streaming of...

Human Behaviour

Worldviews are complicated and vary as much as people themselves. They determine why we do the things we do, and can be based on the philosophies, beliefs, emotions, understanding, intentions, morals, knowledge or values (or a combination of these) of a person,...

Come Together

Collaboration is easier and cheaper than ever before. Building a business with colleagues based in Scotland, hundreds of miles from where I live, is easy with WhatsApp, email and a spreadsheet or two. When self-publishing, an editor in Brisbane, a designer in Cornwall...

Papua New Guinea

A phrase I’ve come across online is ‘location independence’. It means being able to work anywhere you want to, whether that’s Pinner, Poplar or Papua New Guinea. As long as you’ve got an internet connection and a laptop or even just a...

High Hopes

Long before I faced redundancy and looked at a career as a writer, and well before I’d considered editing, I’d already decided to write. That decision had come from a painful place: my relationship with my dad. This was around 2000/2001, and we...