It isn’t a law — I’d been using visualisation techniques since 1983, 23 years before The Secret was released, and the principles I had been using were newly re-labelled The Law of Attraction. I knew it as The Fourth Dimension. In his book of the same name, I learned about the fourth dimension from Yonggi…

Engaging on social media — There’s nothing duller than a social media account where the owner dumps links and runs without interaction with their audience, leaving questions unanswered. I am guilty of this myself! It seems to me that social media is the epicentre of the creator economy. You are nothing without an audience. Maybe…

Shouldn’t you crush your competitors? — You must have seen the stories in the papers about Amazon not treating its workforce fairly, or stealing ideas from small businesses and making millions from it. Or Walmart and McDonalds paying workers so poorly that some employees need food stamps to survive, or Trump not paying suppliers for their…

You had better think twice before leaving your 9–5 — Dangerous advice for would-be entrepreneurs You Don’t Have the Guts to Leave Your 9–5 So Stop Saying You Will I saw this headline in The Startup publication’s call for stories, and it riled me. It doesn’t take guts to quit a job without having the means to provide for yourself…

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A starship captain’s perspective —

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I am — Cyberstalking can cost you your health, your mental well-being, ruin your relationships and decimate your income. It’s no joke. What is stalking? The website, Protection Against Stalking defines stalking as: A pattern of fixated and obsessive behaviour which is repeated, persistent, intrusive and causes fear of violence or engenders alarm…

Mine is Arley Gardens. —