Applying ‘Unreasonable Hospitality’ to startups
I’ve just finished Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara, and it’s one of the most enjoyable business books I’ve read in a while. It s part memoir, part strategy guide as Guidara...
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I loved this interview with author Steven Johnson. It covers a lot about the way he writes and how he structures his books and articles. It also reminded me about...
What Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter tells us about business and climate change
The FT s Lex points out that Warren Buffett s Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders is riddled with inconsistencies on climate change. Even as insurers have benefited from sharply raising premiums,...
Ghost writers in the machine
I get a lot of odd emails pitching me services I don t want. Private jets and yachts aren t really my thing. But one offering to build my audience without spending...
Big Tech malaise
I loved that the FT published a version of Cory Doctorow s Marshall McLuhan Lecture in the FT Magazine. On the surface it seems so unFT both in style and...
Weary Giants and AI
The tech world has a strange relationship with regulation. Often characterised as a libertarian crowd, Silicon Valley leaders used to be vehemently against government involvement. Written in 1996, John Perry...
A campfire in the dark forest
When I posted that I d started blogging again, Andy Thornton posted a link to an article he s written called Into the Woods . It s a really interesting piece and made me...
Current email, calendar and task list setup
I use a few tools to help me keep on top of my email, calendar and task list. These are in addition to the basic Gmail and Google Calendar services....
Some thoughts on AI and tech for good
I’ve been working around the edges of machine learning and AI for many years now. We implemented some basic machine learning in the startup I was running in 2006 and...
My favourite books of 2021
For the first part of 2021, my reading mainly consisted of Agatha Christie and John le Carré novels which I found were very easy to read with a tiny baby...