What's happening now

Updated 15th June 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 last July. My next attempt is in just over 2 weeks. I was extremely confident up until a couple of days ago when I tore a callus on my thumb. The skin peeled off and rolled up like a banana skin. Incredibly sore. Now I’m less confident not knowing what condition my thumb is going to be in for the lift. It could be worse.

Wondering where to travel to next. I’m getting the itch to return to Japan.

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