Why relying on a single employer is a dangerous economic gamble — and how shifting from one buyer to two changes the whole picture.
Last Tuesday, my former colleague logged into a routine 9 a.m. video call. Three minutes in, his screen went black.
Email, gone.… Read the rest “The Safest-Looking Salary Is the Riskiest Bet You’re Making”
There is a road bike in my hallway. It is made of Italian aluminium, painted the aggressive, vibrant colour of a wasp, and it cost £1,200. I have ridden it exactly four times. Two of those excursions were simply to the end of the road and back to check if the brakes were rubbing.
A shorter version of this ran on Medium, and there’s a video walkthrough on YouTube if you’d rather watch it than read it.… Read the rest “I Stopped Renting My Own Mind (a Dead Emperor Fixed It for Free)”
Borrowed gravity is the reason almost nobody read this page. I spent six weeks agonizing over a domain name.
I am not exaggerating for the sake of a relatable opening hook. I built a shortlist. I cross-referenced a spreadsheet of available top-level domains. I applied a weighted scoring system based on memorability, brevity, brand potential, and lack of hyphenation.… Read the rest “I Built the “Perfect” Website and Heard Crickets: Why the Open Web is a Ghost Town”
