2019 was a year of change for me, and one of the most surprising things to come out of it was learning to enjoy reading. As a child I struggled with Dyslexia (and still do), as such reading was one of those things that was hard to enjoy; through some of the discoveries I outline in this post, hopefully you can learn to love reading too.

Sometimes in life you need to crank up the heat, and other times you need to go low and slow. Rome wasn’t built in a day and you can’t make pulled pork in an hour; so why should you expect yourself to pull off these metaphors in your own life.

What does it mean to be rich? How do we quantify that and what lens are we viewing that definition through? Most of us can only really make comparisons to things that we can see or experience, as such I created a series of infographic and abstract posters in late 2021 to help show the spending power of different wealth brackets.

I’m writing this blog post about two and a half hours before the episode of Dragons’ Den I filmed for FixIts with Chris Lefteri airs on BBC One. I’m certainly not brave enough to watch it live or maybe even watch it at all. But I did think it would be fun to write up about the experience for anyone who’s curious to know or who wants to go through it themselves.

How have we ended up in this Black Mirror / Meow Meow Beenz dystopian world where the 5 star rating system has infiltrated so much of our daily lives, distorting and controlling our reality. Rating systems seem to have taken on different meanings on different platforms, but all of them seem to revolve around the same fundamental issue, that anything below 4 stars is “bad”.

Did you know about the different classifications of fun? There are at least 4 types that you can apply to your life to expand the richness of your experiences (or at least how you understand them).

The Bang and Olufsen BeoPlay A6 has a fatal overheating design flaw that even the company says is unfixable. But as I discovered (and you shall see) this flaw can be easily fixed with about 2 hours of your time and some new thermal paste.