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…

Working in a world of market networks

This is an essay which I’ll return to over the coming years. It’s my predictions on the what a growing phenomenon will mean for businesses, digital products and consumers.

Rabbits and moths

The software world isn’t as mad as it appears

On deliberate, careful practice

This is about what practicing looks like. Practicing isn’t just sitting down and doing. It’s a very different mental state and, I believe, is the difference between people who learn a little and people who are able to master something.

The Anchor model vs the old podcast ecosystem

This is part of some ongoing research I’m doing into podcasts as a content format and as a market. While it has been remarked many times that while the podcast format is growing and has it’s superstars, it still feels like the younger infant of…

What the move to serverless means for the speed of software change

Over the past 2 years, a new way of deploying software has emerged which, I predict will have the biggest impact on how software is built and deployed since the web and cheaply available hosting. In fact, it makes…

The un-progress of e-commerce: we have a lot more to eat

Why find the baseline?

Software is eating the world. It’s impacting more industries than ever and changing what each industry does at an…

Be a Rational Technologist

The 21st century seems to be about telling us how irrational humans are. Far from the Econs of classical economics, who are able to weigh up the options calmly and rationally, we lurch from one decision to another.