Conservationists don’t often consider economics. Here’s why they should. — As darkness falls over the plains of Zimbabwe, an American hunter fires an arrow at a lion named Cecil. He goes on to receive death threats and is forced into hiding. Elsewhere in the savannah, Maasai tribesmen poison a group of lions, killing two. They are later arrested, facing life…

Inside the company’s plan to become ‘Uber for delivery’ — There are typically two ways to get anything done: do it yourself, or to pay someone to do it for you. When you’re building a new technology, you have to do everything yourself. If you wanted to make a website in the 90s, you had to have a physical server…

The economics of taking billion-dollar bets on content — Netflix had a cracking line-up of new content last month — Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why, Season 5 of Arrested Development, and four stand-up specials, amongst others. This year they plan to spend $8 billion on content, on par with media juggernauts like Time Warner (HBO) and Disney. $8…

Note: this was originally published on my personal blog. You’ve just thought of the next big thing. It’s gonna have AI, and you’re going to put it on the blockchain. You go onto GoDaddy, enter the name in, and boom — Eventually you find one that isn’t taken, and $10…

Note: this was originally published on my personal blog. The defining struggle of my life has been discipline — doing the right things at the right time. Through this lens, my past year has been a trail of abandoned gym plans, half-baked projects, and decision paralysis. None of the life…

A practical guide to web typography — Type is really important, but often goes forgotten amongst all the other design considerations that go into a product. It seems that 99% of websites nowadays employ the following typographic process: Let’s use Open Sans. There’s obviously nothing inherently wrong with Open Sans (it’s actually quite good), but typography is…

Like many people, my first email address was with Microsoft’s Hotmail. At the time, I didn’t really consider an email client as anything more than an interface by which to read and write emails. In 2007, however, I came across Gmail. I haven’t told anyone this before, but I actually…

My brother and I run www.bmat.ninja, a test prep platform for UK medical school applicants sitting the BMAT. The product offers, amongst other things, ~1300 practice questions for students to do. …

Speedsums is a site that tests your mental arithmetic — you get 30 seconds to do as many (simple) maths problems as you can, after which you’re given a score. I encourage you to check it out if you haven’t already: www.speedsums.com. A milestone was recently reached — a total…