What's happening now

Updated 27th September 2025, from my home in the UK.

Work and projects

Currently contracting at TinyPilot.

The liftingstones.org ebook has done well so far, but I need to do more marketing to get it in the hands of more people.

I’m looking for a B2B problem for my next project – a business idea with a clear path to revenue. I’ve been seriously thinking about reviving one of my stale projects.

Writing is thinking, so I’ve been creating a weekly log for my projects where I sit down and write about whatever I did in the last week, sometimes with only a tiny amount of detail - because that’s who I am I guess - and publish it. It’s all for me and I don’t care if anyone reads them.

‘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’m scheduled to lift the Dinnie Stones in June 2026. I’m on a fat-loss phase until around Christmas. Then I’ll start training specifically for the stones in the new year.

I went on holiday for the first time in over two years. It was a much needed break that got me thinking a lot.

Reading

Currently

  • Rework - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  • The Vagabond’s Way - Rolf Potts

This year

(Most recent first)

  • The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
  • The Courage to be Disliked - Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi
  • How to write useful books - Rob Fitzpatrick
  • The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
  • Boom - Bryne Hobart and Tobias Huber
  • 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