15 years -- what is working?

A short note on 15 years of working.

HouseHeld: designing features

The initial idea was quite complex and then brutally simple, as I wanted to ensure it was scope that would actually get DONE. Tasks This led to the early versions of four season cards with three tasks on each. The project was more or less entirely task-based, but trying desperately

Prototyping my first product

This post follows up part 1 about what HouseHeld is and why I've been working on it. You might want to start there. Fortunately, I’ve spent the last decade working directly with some wildly talented founders and investors. I read the Lean Startup the year it came

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Human computing

What's the relationship between Vision Pro and LLM text interfaces?

What's Apple's Vision for the rest of us?

What's the Vision for the rest of us?

househeld

HouseHeld - the story so far

What is HouseHeld

product

The only successful consumer app is Entertainment

About the time I realised there's no such thing as a successful consumer subscription app outside of "entertainment".

products

Against our own interests

What makes people adopt something new?

How Minds Change

Featured

My product journey

Hello, For over a decade, I've worked closely with great founders and their teams around a simple premise: what is this business really about? During that time, a continuous curiosity has driven me toward all sorts of challenges: from agencies to writing, into startups, running my own business,

writing

The power of Rewriting

How might adapting stories help you notice your writing defaults and cliches?

products

How analogue do we need to go to escape the digital dirge?

Is there a better way to manifest our favourite music, movies, games and books in our life?

So far with... Arc browser

I started using Arc before Christmas as my default browser. Here's what I've been thinking about it: Replacing chrome with features I remember at the launch of Google Chrome, the whole principle was to build a bridge for Google content into the actual "chrome"

Dynamic Island? Watch it.

Apple Watch already solved the Dynamic Island's purpose.

How to work with MaxTB

A guide to getting the most out of MaxTB

Star Wars

Star Wars, we have a problem

Without MCU-like purpose, Star Wars has only nostalgia to offer.

vanmoof

VanMoof X3 review

After nearly three months with the VanMoof X3, it’s time for an initial review.

Photos

“It’s not a shirt, it’s a story”

ghost

Trying Ghost for blogging

Playing with Ghost.

how to work with

How to work with MaxTB

and get what you need

creandum

Hello Creandum

TL;DR I’m helping Creandum as (interim) Head of Marketing

tech PR

What journalists don’t want you to know about “how to pitch them”

I was reading a piece recently where the journalist emphasises they will need more detail to write up funding announcements.

twitter

Paying a whole List would be great Twitter monetisation

I already effectively have different publications on Twitter through Lists, I’d love to pay Twitter a core amount that was split between them or be forced to decide how much it’s worth. I think Twitter probably should be the payments processor in the centre – for reasons linking to

Media

The myth of media relations

he homogeneity of yesteryear has been replaced — but some things don’t change

Books

We Are the Weather: imperfection can save the world

There are things we all know we should do, but continue to resist because they seem too hard. But the real limiting factor is changing…