‘I want to be my own boss’
Inspiration can come from anywhere and I love the fact that YouTube exists not because it means I can watch cats on skateboards but because I can revisit old TV ads that I remember fondly and struck a chord with me. Below is an old TV ad for the Prudential from 1989...‘Life skills’
Over the years, I’ve heard people talk about a need for schools to teach people knowledge for life, or ‘life skills’, such as: How to fill in a form The most cost-effective ways to buy a car How banks make a profit How to cook a healthy meal, rather than biscuits or...Rubbish at Pictionary?
It’s not that I’m rubbish at playing Pictionary, more absolutely terrible, which is why my daughters enjoy watching me play it. I know in my head what my picture should look like but what emerges on the paper when it’s my turn rarely matches the image I’m seeing in my...Site searches
A quick tip for when you’re looking for information from a particular website, and you know it’s there somewhere but you just can’t find it: Go to Google and type site:[thewebsiteyouwanttosearch.co.uk] and add the search term here What you’ll...To learn about the internet is to learn about life
There’s so much more to inted than learning how to code and how to stay safe online, great though those subjects are. And it’s great that they’re already widely taught in schools. But what I’ve found, since deciding in 2005 that I wanted to...PP on LinkedIn
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