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