You're Not Ready
I heard something a few days ago. You know, the kind of thing where you stop and think for a while, and then the significance starts »
Give Yourself More Playtime
I remember my first computer fondly. As a kid I was more than addicted to the Commodore 64 – perfectly happy to sit and endure at least »
Do What You Love
Reflecting on 2014, it has been a tough but very exciting year. Back in February I decided to seriously pursue my own startup. I had been »
Why Read?
It seems like a stupid question – obviously, we read in order to process written material until we understand it. People have different motivations for reading. While »
Be With Your Thoughts More Often
Whilst walking to work this morning, I noticed myself doing something that I wouldn't normally give a second thought to. I took out my phone and »
Passion
In Foundation episode 3 with Philip Rosedale (the founder of Second Life) Kevin Rose asks about entrepreneurship. Philip has some interesting opinions that resonate with my »
Understand How It Works
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from my grandfather. He didn't visit very often and conversation always felt more like an »
Growth Is Not The Goal
In the startup world we hear a lot about growth. Startup accelerators focus on being the facilitators of quick growth and the term is thrown around »
To Be Productive, Be Prepared
Often we think of motivation and productivity as being connected by a sort of feedback loop. When we're motivated we make progress and seeing that progress »
Stay Young Enough To Try Anything
I am not young enough to know everything. This is one of my favourite quotes. Not just because it's a clever joke about young people often »
Startups Are Not Sexy
Over the last 10 years the number of people I know working on their own startup has probably increased by a factor of 10. Hundreds of »
Let's Get Real About Ambition
Do you have a goal or ambition? Maybe you want to build a startup, work on that side project, learn a new language or become better »
What Is 'The Zone', Anyway?
Recently I've been thinking more and more about the zone. I've been trying to work out what it actually is. Most often it's described as being »
Talk About Your Stuff
Growing up I was a pretty shy kid. I didn't talk to many people and I loved hacking away at things almost in secret. I would »
Ask Questions
Sometimes I find myself in situations where someone appears to know exactly what my problem is. Not only do they appear to grasp the entire situation »
Agile – 'A' For Adjective
Are you doing happy? No, seriously, are you doing happy? OK, what about this, are you doing flexible? You probably think I'm talking nonsense, and that's »
ZZüy – A Lesson In Perseverance
In the last post I said that we actually need to do what we want to become better at, as well as reading and talking about »
Do
I often go back to my parents house on weekends to visit, and for nearly as long as I can remember my sister and I have »