What's happening now

Updated 16th August 2025, from my home in the UK.

Work and projects

Currently contracting at TinyPilot.

I’ve just soft launched the first liftingstones.org product in two years - an ebook. It took way longer than I expected, partly because I kept pushing it back to do a little more, a little tweaking, a little revision. Having it live has taken a weight off my shoulders, but there’s still tons to do.

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.

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.

‘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’ve been given a slot to lift the Dinnie Stones in September, two months after my last attempt. I’ve got four weeks to prepare, which isn’t ideal. My Dinnie training lifts are down a little compared to two months ago (my thumbs have been holding me back because they’re incredibly painful), but other training lifts are up, so I just need to push the weight jumps a little to get back into condition.

Reading

Currently

  • The Vagabond’s Way - Rolf Potts

This year

(Most recent first)

  • 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