As I wrote yesterday, worldviews motivate our actions. Social media companies’ actions are driven by profit – like any other business’s – and that means they want our attention (to sell to their advertisers). Lots of attention = lots of profit. The live-streaming of...

Worldviews are complicated and vary as much as people themselves. They determine why we do the things we do, and can be based on the philosophies, beliefs, emotions, understanding, intentions, morals, knowledge or values (or a combination of these) of a person,...

Collaboration is easier and cheaper than ever before. Building a business with colleagues based in Scotland, hundreds of miles from where I live, is easy with WhatsApp, email and a spreadsheet or two. When self-publishing, an editor in Brisbane, a designer in Cornwall...

A phrase I've come across online is 'location independence'. It means being able to work anywhere you want to, whether that's Pinner, Poplar or Papua New Guinea. As long as you've got an internet connection and a laptop or even just a smartphone, you're in business....

Long before I faced redundancy and looked at a career as a writer, and well before I'd considered editing, I'd already decided to write. That decision had come from a painful place: my relationship with my dad. This was around 2000/2001, and we weren't particularly...

When I left full-time employment and struck out on my own, I remember walking into my new rented office on the first day of self-employment. To say that I was awkward and uncomfortable in this new environment would be an understatement. Neil Armstrong might well have...

There are two fundamental messages that I want my forthcoming book to promote: The first is: The second is about knowledge. I reckon knowledge really is power. Sounds corny but it's true. When you have knowledge you can beat fear. Knowledge of yourself, the world...

I heard from Barclays this morning, in my ongoing argument with them (in a nutshell, I think they're rubbish and greedy, and they're looking into it) and it wasn't long before the red mist started to descend. I told the lady on the phone that she and those among her...

Shoelace and I went to a gig last night: Fun Lovin' Criminals at the Forum in Kentish Town, which was a lot of fun. "Make some noise!" the support act shouted from the stage. No one's ever needed to say that in our house. It's always got plenty of noise, thank you...

A few years ago, I wrote a book about the internet of things for the CEO of a London tech firm. As I interviewed him, he told me that "we're at the beginning of the beginning", adding that the point we're at now is similar to where we were 15 or 20 years ago, when...