How much money does a car insurance company make on a policy for a young, male driver? None. They make their money on such policies by taking their insured drivers' premiums and investing on the money markets. But some some young, innovative insurance companies,...

The music world has lost another great: Ranking Roger, vocalist with The Beat. Here's a shortened version of the Mirror in the Bathroom chapter from my book for young teens, Mr Lizard*: Before the internet, everyone read newspapers. Kids would get a job at a paper...

Ed Petrie is a CBBC presenter, actor and comedian. I asked him if he believes internet education is important and what he regards as the most important related subject. He told me: We’re currently going through a period in history that is as important as the...

As well as the sad new news today of Scott Walker's death, there's also coverage of research by the Office for National Statistics that suggests that 1.5 million people in England are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation. That screams to me that young...

Thinking about which professional copywriting tips I could share got me listing (I love a list). Then I had an email from Brian Dean, one of my go-to teachers when I want to learn about SEO (Heather Loyd-Martin is another). And this email from Brian was promoting a...

I saw a post on Instagram recently that said: Don’t compare your chapter 1 to someone else’s chapter 20 That line was above this photo: My problem in 2007 and for some time beyond was my stupid habit of collecting enough training material to last a lifetime, and...

One Amazon trick that shoppers on the site often talk about is the different prices that are given for the same product from one visit to the next. How might you be able to get round that? You could browse privately, go incognito, using your favourite browser's...

I lie in bed some nights and the very last thing I do before I go to sleep feels wrong, wasteful and shameful. I’m on Instagram or, more likely, Twitter, just catching up on the last word on the day, grabbing hold of one, two or twenty more opinions before I switch...

Learning a new language doesn't come easily to me, especially at 47. It might have been slightly less painful when I was a teenager and learning about La Rochelle and how to ask the way to beach in French. Last year, I thought I'd have a stab at learning a bit of...

I'm listening to an audiobook at the moment called The Artist's Journey by Steven Pressfield. Pressfield's famous for talking about what he calls resistance: the thinking that conspires to stop us from producing creative work and sharing it with the world. He first...