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Penguins and Metaphors

I took this photo of a pengiun years back on a day trip round the Peninsula of Cape Town - easily one of my favourite things to do in this epic city. Ideally, it's early summer, a midweek trip to skip the crowds, you have a friend or two, some beach bats, and you hit...

2030 | A “Give me Space” Odyssey

This essay below attempts to make a big claim, just for the sake of making one, and let’s see how it plays out. There is going to come a big turning point in the world, and a lot will change from then on, and for the sake of having some kind of line in the sand, I am...

SPQR, Asterix, and World Dominance | AKA Empires

Here is a very cool map, accurate of mid-August 2023. World map of what...? Let me know what you think it represents? A prize for guessing is a flat white coffee, on me. Drum roll... It's a map of the countries my clients operate from, or are based in. You can easily...

Marmite but Dad won’t | Parenting in 2022

We ate a lot of marmite this year. My wife and I, that is. It's because when you are a father of a baby you have precious little time, and when you do need to eat, you make marmite toast. It's also because the yeast in Marmite helps with something nutritional for my...

Random business advice, musings, theories, and other collected thoughts over my career.

Great marketing

Great marketing

I could write 20,000 words on great marketing, and there will be that many articles, infographics, webinars, podcasts,...

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