Duncker’s candle: What are you for?

Here’s an interesting question: what is it that your product really does for your customers?

BBC vs Netflix. Living up to your potential

A few weeks ago I tweet this facetious chart: BBC vs Netflix (subscribers).

Tomorrow I learn piano. Again.

20 years ago I was playing piano all the time. I had 3 piano teachers, was doing A-level music and spent…

Wittgenstein, Harari, Ravikant, Plato: Thinking towards less anxiety

This is a confusing post about how guessing leads to anxiety, how that anxiety feels like it’s actually work, and then how anxiety at work can continue for years because it feels right. I didn’t realise that it…

Tricks to relearn the hacker/maker mindset

When I was young, I would make. At some point, I stopped making and learnt to manage…

I am bad at planning. So are you. [Book Review: Superforecasting]

Book-review and discussion of…

TBL01: Scott E Page: Thinking with Mental Models

What is the future for podcasts?

Reframing the TAM of spoken audio

For years I have been an avid consumer of podcasts. Although some of the bigger podcasts are becoming — well — even bigger and more popular, the medium of podcasting still feels immature, a…