What's happening now

Updated 1st May 2026, from my home in Britain.

Work, business, and projects

Currently contracting at TinyPilot.

I’ve been looking for interesting problems to solve with a B2B product. I was developing an MVP for a problem I thought was promising, but I ended up with only one person interested, and even they didn’t seem overly excited and it felt difficult to get them to pay. Even just trying to get in contact with other people in that niche was incredibly difficult, which surprised me. I’ve decided to scrap that idea and specific problem for now. Some of the underlying systems can be reused, so I’m going to explore other ideas.

A while ago, my mind was badgering me to revive an older project. I pushed it aside but it keeps bubbling up, so I’ve decided to give it a shot. Can I do it in a month?

liftingstones.org is taking a back seat so I can focus on building a business. When I do work on it, it’s in my personal time, so I’m being ruthless about what I do.

Personal

2026 is flying by. And May is going to be a busy month.

I’m scheduled to lift the Dinnie Stones in under five weeks. Given the injuries and setbacks I had at the start of the year, things are going pretty well. Not sure I’d say I’m super confident at this stage though?

Reading

Currently

  • From third world to first - Lee Kuan Yew

2026

(Most recent first)

  • Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • The perfect guide to Sumo - Ito Katsuharu
  • If anyone builds it, everyone dies - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares
  • The man from the future - Ananyo Bhattacharya
  • How to Drive - Ben Collins
  • The shortest history of Japan - Lesley Downer