Promised Land

In about 2007, I was heavily in debt and learning about lots of the different types of writing that I could do to make a living. One of the most lucrative forms of copywriting, I discovered, is writing sales copy. And back then, long – really long – sales...

Get Back

A term I come across fairly often online is ‘reverse engineering’. Here’s a definition: It’s working out how something was (or might have been) made or achieved by looking at the result first and then trying to identify how the creator reached...

Scared

Google Sheets and Google Docs are so useful and so embedded in my daily work that it’d be hard to imagine the pain if I weren’t able to use them one day, suddenly and without warning. But that’s exactly what happened to someone I know and their...

Back & Forth

Occasionally I’ll read a tip (always more comfortable for me to say out loud than ‘life hack’) that reckons it’ll give me back ten hours a week or similar. One that springs to mind sells the idea that flitting backwards and forwards between...

Moving Too Fast

I’ve only gone and done it. I’ve cut the chord. In other words, I’ve told Sky we’re leaving them and have gone for Freeview and Netflix instead. No point paying nearly sixty quid a month for rubbish telly we don’t watch. On their letters...