A reply six days late, a heart emoji, and the two-month experiment that cured me of being everyone’s low-maintenance friend.
Last Thursday, I finally answered a text that had been sitting in my inbox for six days.
It was from Jess. A decade ago, I’d have called her my closest friend without needing to think about it.… Read the rest “I Stopped Being a ‘Low-Maintenance’ Friend and Nearly Lost My Best Friend Over a Heart Emoji”
The most meaningful lives I’ve watched up close weren’t the happiest. They were the load-bearing ones, the ones holding weight.
A while ago, I took a fortnight off work. Properly off. Phone in a drawer, out-of-office autoreply locked in, the lot. I spent those two weeks walking, reading, and occasionally wincing at the thought of what I was returning to.… Read the rest “Stop Chasing Happiness. Become Load-Bearing.”
My productivity system was the most elaborate thing I owned. Last January I rebuilt my entire task manager from scratch, and it was the most productive I felt all month.
I finished nothing.
This started as an essay on Medium — this is the fuller version, with the receipts.
The planner was beautiful.… Read the rest “Your Productivity System Is Just Procrastination in a Suit”
This is a story about stoic self-mastery — and how an ancient Roman slave philosopher named Epictetus saved me from the most expensive email I never sent.
Prefer the tighter version? This essay first ran on Medium: I Almost Sent the £11,000 Email. There is also a short film of the idea if you would rather watch.
Right now, AI is making every freelancer look replaceable. The consultants surviving it stopped selling hours years ago. This is the exact three-stage path they took — and the 90-day roadmap to follow it. (Read it on Medium | Watch the full video breakdown on YouTube)
This is the story of how I learned to productize your expertise — the quiet, three-stage shift that changed everything: from guessing my way through every project, to a repeatable machine, to a product I could sell on Ko-fi while I slept.
