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Don't Fall In Love With The Product
I saw Matt Birchler write about not falling in love with products, and I was reminded of something Mark Evans wrote a couple of years ago. The advice is aimed at people building things: don’t get attached to what you’re …
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London, January 2026
My second trip out with my new camera was my annual tradition of visiting London between Christmas and New Year. We were a bit late this year as the usual winter sun didn’t appear until later on, but we still made it …
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Skegness, January 2026
For Christmas this year I sold a load of camera gear, and cashed in a bonus from work to buy myself a Leica Q3 43. I’ve always wanted a Q camera for a s long as I’ve been taking photos, so I am over the moon to finally …
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My Journal Sucks
I’ve tried to journal more times than I can count. Twenty-plus attempts, each one starting with optimism and ending in the same predictable collapse. A few days of writing about nothing, a few more days of beating …
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The Best Mental Model
I was watching Demis Hassabis talk in The Thinking Game recently and something he said stuck with me. The scientific method is one of the greatest mental models you can adopt. Being able to say “here’s everything I’ve …
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The iPhone Comparison Problem
I’ve been thinking about the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and cameras in general. Don’t get me wrong, Samsung cameras are fine, I just don’t think they’re good enough for a £1,700 phone. I don’t think they’re good enough for a …
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The Questions I'll Never See
I’ve been noticing some traffic on my blog from LLM based search. Small little drips of visitors from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and similar search tools. Not huge amounts, but enough to make me curious about what’s actually …
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Locked Out Of Your Life
Nick Heer writing about a high-profile Apple account lockout: Customers need a level of protection from any corporation with which they are required to have an ongoing relationship. This single high-profile incident …
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The Halo Fell Away
I’ve been an iOS user for years. The halo of products that kept me locked into the ecosystem has fallen away one by one. The iPad stopped being my computer ages ago, then the Apple Watch got replaced by a Garmin for …
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Filling In The Gaps
Casey Newton wrote about Australia’s new social media ban for under-16s, touching on Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation”: The book has been criticized for its lack of empirical data on the central claim that social …
