
Making time for you with technology and philosophy
Building systems to grow and protect brand value, since 2002
I design and develop the strategies for brand asset growth, with repeat returns on investment.
This means; finding and introducing the best software apps, technologies, setups, integrations, and skills, analysing performance, and implementing measurable processes for growing business, scaling teams, and securing attention.
If you need predictable results…
Featured Articles

Blogging for beginners, money, and business. A complete guide 📖
My aim here is to give you a one-page guide, for everything you need: Choose a blog platform to get started. Write about things that no-one else can….

Do You Trust This Computer? 2018 AI movie review revisited ️👁️
An introduction to the film documentary, “Do You Trust This Computer?” and a philosophical essay on the subject of AI. Recommended viewing for understanding the AI capabilities we…

Ulysses app setup & preferences 🦋
Having a dedicated and thoughtfully designed notes-app, helps you to gather your thoughts, organise research, and refine your writing. It becomes a personal knowledge base, journal, and hub…

macOS setup & preferences 💻
I must have sat at dozens of friends & colleagues’ Macs over the years to help with something. The default setup isn’t always intuitive, organised or fast, so…

Bootstrap life: Building multiple income streams 💸
When needs must, we have to adapt. Think; multiple direct sources of income and a more business-like approach to our personal finances & admin. Let’s look at your options for financial independence, with less stress & risk from sudden changes.

Learn a new language, and a new way to learn 🏴 🇫🇷
We’ll learn more about our language too, as we take a journey through history, changing our thinking from the traditional focus on memorising, to a deeper knowledge and…

A space odyssey for the mind 🔭
There’s something about astrophysics I find quite comforting and cathartic — it’s the perspective it gives us on our significance as observers, in a place and time on…

Make your own one-page website, with free hosting for eternity ∞
We will be using the free services of GitLab & GitHub, a simple plain-text editor to write and export your single page index.html, and all without learning HTML!…

Markdown: Why you should learn it, and use Plain Text files for documents #
My campaign for making plain-text writing, with Markdown, your default — so your focus is on your content — and it is never restricted for portability by proprietary…

Introducing Ghost for your blog 👻 – a thread (1/7)
Anyone can blog, and almost everyone should — we only get once chance to make a first impression! These Ghost posts will give you an idea of how…