Attention is the new gold rush.

Companies are all vying for our attention, from social media and endless scrolling to media platforms and auto rolling the next episode. They want eyeballs on screens. As a species, we have never had a time where we can be as easily distracted as we are now.

These distractions prevent productivity. Thus, resulting in having to work longer and cause ourselves more stress because we can’t achieve the output required in the same amount of time. Flow is something that has increasingly been offered as a method to counter this. Flow is ‘being in the zone’, the optimum state of…

For a long, long time, in fact almost as long as internet blogging has been a real thing, the easiest and best way for anyone to get a custom blog up and running was to use WordPress. Wordpress is so popular it powers something like 32% of all the internet. That is an insane amount of content created, produced and shown who’s the underlying infrastructure is this one platform. Obviously, not all those sites are blogs, and that is a testament to the flexibility of the platform in many ways allowing you to produce almost any website you want. …

“Within seventy years of his death, the last of the great Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth Avenue had made way for modern office buildings. When 120 of the Commodore’s descendants gathered at Vanderbilt University in 1973 for the first family reunion, there was not a millionaire among them.” — Fortunes Children, Arthur T Vanderbilt.

I recently just finished reading Fortune’s Children by Arthur T Vanderbilt, which is a fascinating biographical recounting of the Vanderbilt family, from their rise to prominence in the mid-late 1800s to their fall from the top of the dollar bill pile in the early 1900s.

The quote…

Had I known that it was all the way back in 2017 that I was first made aware of Tailwind CSS (see the photo below), I probably would have spent the last few years in a more significant state of contentment when it came to styling both my clients’ projects and my own. Unfortunately, it didn’t register anything for me back then, and I never checked it out.

If only I had known, well things would have been a lot different. I think most people cut their teeth on Bootstrap as a CSS framework (I have a deep dive about…

In the middle of Soho in London, along Shaftsberry Avenue (the road with all the West End Theatres), there is a nondescript large metal door. One step above the pavement, there is nothing particularly unusual about this door, in fact, you almost certainly would never know it was there in unless you were specifically looking for it.

As it happens, in this story, we are looking for this door because behind it is our destination, one of the many private members’ clubs in Soho. This specific club has the claim to fame of the largest roof terrace in that part…

This is a photo of me and my fellow founder Justin, taken shortly after we finished our degrees at Exeter university. We went to visit India, to see some of the teams we were working with to build our own products and other clients.

Fast forward to three years later and after many twists and turns, our edTech startup Currikula has launched. It’s live. Today. And it’s quite the feeling.

We’ve had many ups and downs along the way, from pivoting 8 months ago to a more focused and refined platform, to traveling to Silicon Valley to get a taste…