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Try Different
4 Aug 2019 • 4 min read

Try Different →

Just over 2 years ago I was mid way through a 12 day solo trek over the Western Himalayas in Ladakh, the far north of India. Something happened that’s stuck with me ever since.

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25 Feb 2018 • 1 min read

🎵 This & That #20 (Asia Special) →

It’s more than difficult to explain what it’s like when your senses collide with Asia; the sounds, the smells, the sights. I sampled sounds from India’s roaring cities, to chanting in Bangladesh, nature’s orchestra in Vietnam, to the bells of Himalayan horses as a way to

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Lucky Man
14 Jul 2017 • 11 min read

Lucky Man →

A renewed appreciation for life, helmets and the wonderful people of India 🇮🇳

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Stealing Time for My Own Mind
3 Jul 2017 • 13 min read

Stealing Time for My Own Mind →

Surprises, agonies and insights from a 10 day Vipassana meditation in Chennai, India.

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22 Dec 2016 • 2 min read

How young are you? →

For the last few days I've been hanging with Andreas from Sweden. This is a photo of him pulling a silly face. He is a big, kind, larger than life character. He plays the guitar, takes jaw-dropping photos and wears a Batman cap. His voice is deep in tone and

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9 Dec 2016 • 1 min read

Obama Noodles →

Trekked over to the other side of Hanoi to Bún chả Hương Liên — where Obama and Joe Biden came for Bún Chả (noodles, greens and bbq pork strips in a f-u-c-k-i-n-g sensational soup). The lady pictured top left came to sit opposite me. She spoke exceptionally good English. She pointed

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Tom & Tom in Koh Rong
30 Oct 2016 • 4 min read

Tom & Tom in Koh Rong →

📋🏃🏽 written on the move, typos and all I just got back from Koh Rong – an island off of the south west coast of Cambodia - and I'm en route to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. It's comical how far some of the coach drivers stretch the definition of a

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20 May 2016 • 1 min read

Look around: Costs are everywhere →

It’s easy to rest on the assumption that costs are only monetary. In product design, this misses an important point — costs are everywhere: Waiting for a webpage to load is a cost.Typing in your card details is a cost.Figuring out whether to trust a company you’ve

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20 May 2016 • 10 min read

We used Intercom to add £100,000s of marketplace investments at Fruitful—here’s how →

Onboarding customers to your new product is tricky. Onboarding customers to a new financial product is really tricky. For a mountain of security and regulatory reasons you’re required to collect and validate a towering number of data points. Of course, for each additional data point that we had to

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Keep peddling until you find the right problem
16 May 2016 • 2 min read

Keep peddling until you find the right problem →

Back in August 1972, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority introduced the late Massimo Vignelli’s new map of the subway system. New Yorkers were furious. Complaints came flooding in: “Stations seemed to be in the wrong places. The water surrounding the city was coloured beige, not blue. As for

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The Other Side of the Sunset
9 May 2016 • 9 min read

The Other Side of the Sunset →

Admittedly it’s taken us longer than it should have, but here’s the story behind Fruitful and how we raised over £500,000 of venture funding, built and shipped a marketplace that attracted £1.8million of lending, captured the minds of recognised experts in the field as well as

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8 Jan 2016 • 2 min read

Founders: Avoid Death by Assumption →

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” — Isaac Asimov When you’re building a company, your ability to make good assumptions can be the difference between skyrocketing or skydiving. A few bad calls in

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Saying Something Memorable
28 Nov 2015 • 1 min read

Saying Something Memorable →

It should come as no surprise: The best way to make a point, teach something or sell a product is to tell stories. Here’s one of my favourite storytellers: When I start preparing for a talk, I often struggle to think of stories that help explain the ‘thing’ I

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21 Nov 2015 • 1 min read

♫ New Mix: This & That #18 →

Managed to find some time to flick through my music and produce a new mix. Tinged with autumn leaves, this mix brings together some of my favourite melodic house tracks featuring the likes of Guy J, Vincenzo, Radiohead and the very talented Dosem. I’ve made it available for download

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11 Oct 2015 • 1 min read

This is how you package consumer goods →

Yesterday I was in the market for some plughole unblocker. We’ve moved places recently and I forgot to put this useful little thing in our shower. So I head into Tesco and — eventually — I find the section for bleaches and plughole unblockers. I know that Mr. Muscle is a

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