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My journey from bartending to tech marketing

You want to work in tech but you don’t have the “ideal” background – no industry experience or computer science degree from Stanford you can use to impress recruiters. You’ve heard that software developers are in high demand, but how do you become a developer? Would you even enjoy being a software developer? Wanting to […]

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Selling our Amazon FBA company

A couple of months ago we were approached by an Amazon aggregator who wanted to see if we were open to selling the business. As successful Amazon Sellers we saw many of these emails and usually just ignored them as we had some specific profit goals we were targeting before we were looking to exit. […]

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Tools of the trade (my gear list)

Last updated: March 2021 Technology MacBook Pro 13 w/ Touchbar (Late 2016 model) I’ve been using Mac laptops since university and upgraded to the 13 inch Touch Bar model when they were released at the end of 2016. While I loved my previous Mac laptops I’m not very happy withthis model. The logic board fried […]

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A list of popular ideas in culture, potentially refuted

(Last updated: October 2022) Below is a list of popular ‘turns out’ style content that it (drumroll…) turns out (sorry) might not be correct after all – at least, if you are willing to accept the counter arguments. Books Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker) vs “Matthew Walker’s “Why […]

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A few of my favourite things – 2019

Another year is coming to an end so it’s time to take a look at some of the best things I’ve read, listened to and used throughout the year. Books I didn’t quite hit my target of 52 books, but I’m not concerned. Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikötter The first in the People’s Trilogy […]

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Reading habits

I’ve always had a love for reading. Back in 2012 I decided to step it up a gear and set myself a goal to read 52 books. I took the challenge seriously, setting a daily minimum of 30 minutes reading and using an apps to track the books and the number of days in a […]

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Reading: Mao’s Great Famine

I’m currently reading “Mao’s Great Famine”, the first book in the “Peoples Trilogy” series by Frank Dikötter. The book covers the infamous Great Leap Forward period of 1958-1962 where Mao Zedong decided he would push China to surpass Britain’s industrial output within 15 years, resulting in widespread famine and suffering across China. As I sit […]

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The difficulty of remembering the people we didn’t know

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Excerpt from “For the Fallen”, Laurence Binyon My mother’s father had the unlucky fortune to be born at a […]

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Introducing: GrowthJobs.io

I recently launched a side project I’ve been working on: [GrowthJobs.io](https://www.growthjobs.io/), a job board that features a curated list of the best jobs in growth. Growth is quite a broad term, but basically if the role would naturally fit within a growth team – growth marketer, growth engineer, product manager, analyst, head of growth – […]

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A few of my favourite things – 2017

2017 has been a great year for me. Lisa and I got married in May, and we had our first child (a boy) in August. Add in extended visits from friends and family, work and the odd vacation, and it’s fair to say that the year has been also been a busy one. ## Favourite Books […]

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