Digital by Default

Tag: Entrepreneurship

  • It doesn’t have to be crazy at work

    This the latest book from Basecamp founders DHH and Jason Fried. A few years ago they penned a pretty influential tome called ‘ReWork’ which effected a whole generation of start-up founders, small business owners and pretty much anybody involved in an internet related business. This seems to be seeking a similar place in the hearts…

  • Year of the Dog: Autumnal Equinox

    qiū fēn 秋分 Forgive me Mother for I have sinned; it has been two weeks since my last conf..oops…weeknote. I need to get back in to the habit of writing these at a better cadence. My head is a bit cluttered at the moment — there is a lot going on up there and some of it isn’t…

  • [S05 E08/9] “After Hours”

    There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. I’ve been struggling a bit since I got back from New York. I don’t ever recover that quickly from long haul flights (even though it isn’t really that long..) and on touching down the pace didn’t really relent at all. So I’ve been tired…

  • [S05 E06] “The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco”

    The Good Place Well that was a better week I must say. Nary a single anxiety attack or sleepless night. No (serious) transport problems. Zero existential crisis. I even finally started to feel the benefits of all these lifestyle changes. That said it did not start in too auspicious a manner. I felt pretty ropey Monday…

  • [S05 E05] “No Place Like Home”

    Five by five It has been a bit of a week. Proper rollercoaster territory. I had an amazing time at Thought Bubble in Leeds last weekend but by early Sunday evening I was having a full on anxiety attack related to a mistake I’d made at work that had come back to bite us. I couldn’t…