What's happening now

Updated 8th November 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’ve been looking for a B2B problem for my next project – a business problem with a clear path to revenue via a SaaS product. I’ve found a problem that looks promising, so I’m looking for people to talk to about it.

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

It’s gotten cold, and it’s getting dark, so I’m not enjoying that.

But I just bought a nice car, so I am enjoying that. I don’t strictly need a car, but I’ve been itching for one for a while and the right one came up. And it might give me more incentive to go out.

I’m scheduled to lift the Dinnie Stones in June 2026. I’m on a fat-loss phase until Christmas, currently 3.5kg down from my peak at the start of September. Then I’ll start training specifically for the stones in the new year.

It’s getting close to the time where I should plan some travel for next year.

Reading

Currently

  • The Vagabond’s Way - Rolf Potts

This year

(Most recent first)

  • The Mom Test - Rob Fitzpatrick
  • The Art of Spending Money - Morgan Housel
  • Rework - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  • 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