Welcome, this is for you.
What you can expect from this. Updated 28 Nov 2019. This will be a collection and collation of the information I have gleaned from all over the Internet. Why is this of interest to you? If you have any interest in generating extra income, no matter how little, from a home (or away from home) […]
I detest emails like this.
When you send a broken link to your email list, the honest thing to do is own it. Not dress it up, not pretend it was a clever re-engagement tactic. Just say what happened, fix it, and move on. That is what this post is about. A real email link apology, why so many of […]
The greatest enemy of knowledge.
When you type a question into Google or hit play on a YouTube video, you are trusting that what follows is true. Most of the time, that trust is misplaced. I want to share something that happened to me recently, because it illustrates a problem that I think is getting worse, not better. I watched […]
One in thirteen.
When I first came across this number, I had to read it twice. More than 2.1 million Australians are currently either living with dementia or caring for someone who is. That works out to roughly one person in every thirteen. And if you are reading this and thinking that does not apply to you, I […]
Assembling IKEA furniture with a butter knife.
When you buy an AI tool and then spend three hours trying to make it do what it said on the tin, you have not saved time. You have lost it. This is the part nobody talks about when they pitch AI productivity tools. The ROI calculation sounds clean on paper. You pay a monthly […]
Consistency is key. Really?
When someone tells you consistency is the key to building an online income, they are only half right. Consistency with the wrong activity does not compound into results. It compounds into wasted time. If you spend forty minutes every morning watching short-form video content and you have no video channel, no social profile, no connection […]
Walking the cat.
When I spotted a man walking his cat on a leash during my Friday afternoon bike ride, I did a double take. The cat had a harness on, was trotting along reasonably cooperatively, and the whole scene looked both completely absurd and oddly sensible at the same time. I actually admire it. The bloke clearly […]
65+ Bloody Bonuses.
When you start building a swipe file, the first problem you run into is not finding good material. The material is everywhere. The real problem is capturing it without losing your place, interrupting your workflow, or sitting there waiting for a video to buffer and download while you cannot touch anything else on your screen. […]
Digging blind is risky
When I was drafting construction drawings for a utility company, one of the first things I learned was that the map is never the territory. You could have a beautiful, detailed drawing on paper. Survey data, asset records, historical notes from three different companies. And then someone puts a backhoe in the ground and finds […]
Round and round the garden…
When did we decide that hating your work was just part of the deal? I knew a bloke once who was genuinely good at his job in a printing firm. He could run those machines well. But he hated every minute of it. He hated Fridays because knock-off time felt too far away. And I […]
Ever heard of TEGWAR?
When I first came across TEGWAR, I had no idea it would completely change how I think about business rules marketing. TEGWAR is a fictional card game from Mark Harris’s 1956 novel Bang the Drum Slowly, later turned into a 1973 film. The name stands for The Exciting Game Without Any Rules. In the story, […]