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Simple Happiness Signs
When life is good, there are signs. No, I’m not referring to limping parking wardens or free canapés. Instead, I mean the signals that indicate that you are happy. What are these signs in your case?...
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Underdeveloped Development – Simple Mistakes
For over a century the ‘mazungu’ (or white person) in Africa has been losing his temper with the inefficiency of the African. Even today, I’ve witnessed continual annoyance as things go wrong, or...
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Simply Getting Used
I’ve been working reasonably hard recently. My body, not used to such unfair punishment, has been complaining. After a day in front of the computer and on the phone, my neck, my back, my throat and my...
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B-Town, Simplicity and Authenticity
I’ve been in Berlin now for all of three weeks, so this may well be premature, but this city seems to embody simplicity so much more than London. I’m moderately hard on London in my posts. I wonder...
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Simply Solitude
Like many a seeker I found, lost, found and ultimately lost myself in Dharmasala. I remember thinking that if I was to get a tattoo at that time, as a 19 year-old is want to, it would have been of a...
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King Con(fidence)
They say that confidence is everything. Yet our ability to manipulate that confidence is also very powerful. Alastair Campbell wrote a beautiful piece recently which explores his struggle with the...
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Just You
Just my friend Ollie I read a good post from Zenhabits this morning, which nicely juxtaposes my last. If there were one habit or skill that he would focus on, it would be learning to be happy with...
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How Many People Could You Call At 3am? On Richness
I read this article today, where Jeff Haden explains some of the reasons why you aren’t happy. Before we start, tweet the author and tell him his article made you a little happier if you like it. That...
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Intra-ordinary
Congratulations, you’re very ordinary. As I sit and write this, I overlook a tropical lagoon, mangroves and a few fishermen warming in the morning sun. A few energetic swifts wheel in a faint haze –...
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Why Standing Still is Better Than Movement
My friend Pete, taking some time out from a group holiday to just sit and write… We are who we are. No matter how hard we try, we’re unlikely a Damascene moment will transform us into the person we’d...
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Trapped in Escapism
SimpleTom in flight… One of the wonders of the modern world is opportunity. As an entrepreneur, I’m continually excited by what is possible. Aided by lightning fast connectivity, jet engines, computing...
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Adulescence
(or the art of Growing Down) A previous, very silly, birthday Yesterday was my birthday. I was dressed as a ninja cow at a festival, squeezed into a west-country barn full of ‘Almost Farmous’...
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Work Like it’s the Weekend
I’ve no idea who this is, but I like his setup… and his painting Over the last month I’ve been living in a van in Silicon Valley, more on that here and here. I’ll post some adventures soon on...
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Burned Man
At the end of the summer I made my first pilgrimage to Burning Man. It had sat resolutely on my bucket list for a few years and finally it was happening. The Burn has always appealed for a number of...
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#YearofAwesome
Much of my writing feels a bit bleak. A meandering through the reflective, therapeutic corridors of my life rather than the fun and frolics. Writing offers a chance to knead internal knots, a literary...
View ArticleFounder, Not A CEO – Forbes Podcast
Here's an article and a podcast I did recently for Forbes, now that I'm 'temporary-retired'......
View ArticleChanging Climate Change
Climate change is, without much doubt, the greatest current threat to life as we know it. You know that already, right? So why are we both staring into a screen? Why am I still taking flights to my...
View ArticleAll I’ve Ever Learned About Money
Aged 38, I had saved enough money not to need to work again. “I’m retired”, I’ve said provocatively in the last couple of years, whilst still remaining cherub-faced (in certain, low-lit locales). This...
View ArticleCasting Pods
Over the last few months I've been asked to feature on a few podcasts. Here's a couple: In the first, I chat to my old coach James O'Halloran about 'Founding not CEO-ing' and what it means to try to...
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