What's happening now

Updated 6th July 2025, from my home in the UK.

Work and projects

Currently contracting at TinyPilot.

liftingstones.org and I have a complicated relationship at the moment. I’m not itching to research and write articles right now. But I have been doing some site development. And I’m putting together an info product that I think people will love.

I’m going to scrap Delivery Ravens. At least as a public project. I don’t have any desire to market it, and I don’t think it has the potential to be a business. I believe simple products like this are going to quickly lose value over the next few years as AI continues to improve, allowing people to quickly develop their own bespoke tools – there’s going to be a shift away from ‘commodity’ SaaS.

I’ve been writing a weekly development log for my projects for a few months. They’re nothing special. And they’re mostly for me. I sit down for about an hour on a Sunday and write. Sometimes, there’s just not much to say. Regardless, writing is thinking.

As for other projects, I have too many ideas. Two of them persist from last year. But I need to be careful - I need to make sure it’s a business idea, with a clear revenue model, not a project. I’m looking for a B2B problem.

‘Infinite runway’ from contracting/consulting is nice, but it makes building momentum on anything else so hard because the amount of time I have to work on projects is so little. The few Stripe notifications I get each month are amazing, but I need to grow them to multiple per day. Marketing is my biggest hurdle.

Personal

I attempted, and failed, to lift the Dinnie Stones in July 2024. And I failed to achieve a full lift on Tuesday. I was so close. But my injured thumb let me down. If my thumb was in good condition and I had a better position on the stones, I would have got it. I’m on the reserve list to attempt again this year. It’s unlikely I’ll get a call-up, but I need to prep anyway. So back to training.

Reading

Currently

  • Boom - Bryne Hobart and Tobias Huber
  • The Vagabond’s Way - Rolf Potts

This year

(Most recent first)

  • Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidara
  • The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
  • Hidden Japan - Alex Kerr
  • Status Game - Will Storr
  • Source Code - Bill Gates
  • The Making of Price of Persia - Jordan Mechner
  • On Looking - Alexandra Horowitz
  • Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz
  • Longitude - Dava Sobel
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Charles Munger, Peter D. Kaufman