What's happening now

Updated 13th 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 failed to lift the Dinnie Stones again and left my thumb’s skin on the ring to boot. I probably would have reacted worse to the tear if it hadn’t already happened in June. I desperately need to improve my grip strength. I also need to lose some fat.

After thinking about it, I’ve decided to cut fat until about Christmas. And I’ll book another attempt at the Dinnie Stones mid 2026. It’s not what I wanted to happen, but that’s the best option I have if I want to achieve the lift.

I’m taking a much needed vacation for the first time in a couple of years where I can actually relax.

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