I’ve been thinking about MRR (monthly recurring revenue) versus ARR (annual) and the psychology of those two things. It’s pretty clear that businesses love the idea of recurring revenue, and given a choice between a subscription or more ini…
07 August 2026 parenting kids After a week of ghosting round the house by myself, my wife and children and back. Let me share some emotional slop (as opposed to AI slop) about what a privilege it is to have them around. This morning I got w…
I went to see a film today. To the actual cinema, with actual popcorn and drinks and iMax and…well, The Odyssey. I’ve written book reviews before but I know books. Like really know books. Whereas I think this is the first film I’ve seen in
This is going to be the most asinine of all the possible asininities in my blog, but fuck it. Today I went to Boroughbridge twice, both times to buy food. That’s not great from a health perspective, and I should probably examine my life cho…
This post absolutely benefits from musical backing so I’d recommend sticking this on and then coming back here. One day I’ll write about raising boys and how that’s different today than it was 30 years ago, and why it’s strange to see the w…
I’m home alone! My wife has taken the incredibly bold step of driving all three of our children up to Scotland by herself to spend some time with her parents. Not just some time, though. 6 - 7 days. Nearly a whole week! I shouldn’t need to
29 July 2026 parenting kids I didn’t want to buy a trampoline. It wasn’t the money. It was the fact that just about every trampoline I’d seen in somebody’s garden looked like a sad, weather-beaten thing. And I never saw children playing on
29 July 2026 parenting kids I didn’t want to buy a trampoline. It wasn’t the money. 28 July 2026 psychology history I just started reading Barbara Tuchman’s “The Proud Tower” and, while I’m only in the introduction, I’m already enjoying it.…
28 July 2026 psychology history I just started reading Barbara Tuchman’s “The Proud Tower” and, while I’m only in the introduction, I’m already enjoying it. I read “The Guns of August” after hearing that JFK read and re-read it and thought
14 July 2026 life parenting It’s day 2 of the summer holidays and I think it’s going to be a long one! We’re still working out how to handle parenting and being back at work with 3 children off school/nursery and at home all day. It’s almos…
I went to a family party over the weekend. Not a small, smelly little family party. A big, proper family party. The kind with my cousins. Their partners. Their children. My parent’s cousins. My auntie’s cousins daughter. The whole shebang.
13 July 2026 psychology tech No - not that one. One thing I think the eruption of LLM-assisted development has done is make it painfully clear that human attention is the real currency that matters, and it isn’t becoming more abundant. Ther…