Just Random Shit!

These days we are conditioned to think in terms of transactions. “What’s in it for me?” is often forefront in people’s minds whenever they are asked to do something. People like certainty, and so knowing what the reward is, and the terms on which it will be received, are key. But some rewards are shy.…

Having a goal can be extremely motivating. Whatever it is – running a marathon, achieving a particular weight, having a certain bank balance – having a target focusses us in a way that few other things do. And then bolting onto the goal some other scaffolding, like a penalty for failure, a support network that…

All of us of a certain age can remember where we were for Live Aid. That charity concert in 1985 that brought the whole world together. It was a moment in history like the assassination of JFK, or the moon landing, or the death of Princess Diana, where everyone who was old enough remembers exactly…

I got my first connection to the internet in 1993. I accessed via a DOS prompt and used a 2400 baud modem. I could use email, download files from file servers and use bulletin boards. It was a far cry from what we know as the internet today. Although I was fresh out of law…

Like most kids I grew up in my parent’s house. When I was younger my Dad would often say, “You treat this place like a bloody hotel!” I was never really sure what he meant, since the only hotels I’d stayed in were places like guesthouses in Blackpool, where the comparisons with Fawlty Towers were…

Why is it so difficult to switch from a mindset of asset acquisition to one of asset depletion? We spend our working life focussing on asset acquisition and growth yet if we are to not render our work worthless at some point we need to switch our focus to that of spending what we have…