Of being in flow, and the time flies by.
Yet at the end of the day wishing I had got so much more done.
April 14, 2025
This beautiful frustration
14April
April 14, 2025
84 to 85 = shoulder pain
I’d been wondering why I was getting pain in my right shoulder recently. Nothing sharp, just a dull ache by the end of the day. I realised (by accident) that it was the height of my standing desk. I’d bumped the height switch a few days prior and the height had gone from 84 up to 85. And in the following days the shoulder pain started. I took it back down to 84 (ie 1cm lower), and the...
April 14, 2025
Game Changer
Game changer Definition: Any new feature—no matter how basic or specific to a particular area—which is talked about breathlessly on social media as if it’s going to unlock some amazing new level of productivity or performance. Usually accompanied by at least one fire emoji. Ideally, if it is in beta, that makes it more of a game changer. Bonus: if it’s a private beta, then it’s...
April 5, 2025
Why I cancelled Duolingo
05April
I’ve been using Duolingo for a while. I pay for the Premium (Super) version. But I cancelled this week. Not because I don’t use it. Not because I’m replacing it with another tool or ChatGPT. I cancelled it because I’m sick of so much upsell. The bottom set of icons used to give me access to different features. Now two of the six are just for upsells. I’m fine with...
April 5, 2025
Reporting Slop
Reporting slop is a subcategory of Process Slop. Reporting Slop is all the reports that get created simply because AI suggested them as a good idea for your business, your department, your clients… First, let’s take a step back though. I think we’ve all had that experience in our careers where we’re asked to create a report (or to continue preparing a report) for the...
March 22, 2025
Process Slop
22March
I think we all understand content slop by now – the low value content pumped out by AI (usually at scale). Annoying, yes – but mostly harmless. One of the lacklustre side effects of AI advances. However, there’s another type of AI related slop coming – what I’ll refer to as ‘process slop’. It’s the side effect of people taking the ‘advice’ of AI when it comes to setting up their...
March 20, 2025
Don’t Tell Your Story
20March
One of the things that’s taught in Marketing is around the power of storytelling and the exhortation that you should share stories. Often, people mistake ‘storytelling’ for telling their own story. But of course, nobody cares about the storyteller, they only care about themselves. Prospects and clients want to hear the story about the problem you solve for them. Hopefully we all know this...
March 20, 2025
HubShots episode 311
Ian and I recorded HubShots Episode 311 a few weeks back. You can watch it here on YouTube. And full show notes are available here. Here’s what we covered: 00:00 Introduction 00:20 Deep Thought of the Week? 01:10 Should you Build your Website on HubSpot? 05:48 Subscribe to our HubShots Daily Tip 06:22 Canva integration with HubSpot 08:49 HubSpot SNIPPETS Helper 09:26 View Activity Summaries...
March 20, 2025
Sucking your AirPods clean
My right AirPod had been playing up for the last few months. It was considerably quieter than the left one. I’d done all the obvious things – cleaning away wax build up, resetting and repairing, checking balance levels in Accessibility settings etc. No change. Then I came across this post that suggested I ‘suck’ the AirPod speaker. At that point I was happy to try anything...
March 19, 2025
Rewards
19March
Many, many years ago I was going to a nightclub with a group of friends. We got there and one guy in our group was denied entry by the bouncer because of his shoes (he had pointy toed boots – winkel pickers were having a resurgence at the time). So we all had to leave (we weren’t going to leave him on his own outside). We walked back to his hotel, where he changed his shoes, and then...