It’s a tricky question, isn’t it? When I’m reading a book or watching a film, I usually finish. Even if the book is tough going or the film is a bit of a slog, I push through. Why? Honestly, I’m not sure. Maybe it’s the guilt of seeing an unfinished book staring at me from…
If I could jump in a time machine and visit my first startup 20 years ago, I’d have a few choice words for my younger self. That business was the WordPress equivalent of its time – no-code software to build simple websites. The problem? We spent too much time building and not enough time understanding…
One of my earliest journeys into entrepreneurship, around 20 years ago, was with a friend. We had been asked to do websites for clients, but we were getting bored of doing the same thing repeatedly. This was in the early 2000s, and we decided – naively – to create a platform that allowed clients to…
I often struggled with the fact that as a general technologist, I couldn’t label myself with a particular mastery or skill. Before leaving my last “proper job” I found it hard to find roles that fitted my more generalist approach which led me to reflect on my experience and think that perhaps I would have…