Writing

The reverse stone soup challenge 22nd of September 2025 There’s a folk tale about Stone Soup. There's a particular design challenge that I think of as its reverse.
Obvious in hindsight 11th of September 2025 Why the best design feels obvious only in hindsight – and why that disappearing act is its greatest strength.
Launching Bold Wise Studio 29th of August 2025 Put simply, if Bold Wise is about direction, Bold Wise Studio is about delivery.
Refocusing 4th of February 2025 Hitting the 15 year milestone, and looking at the work I'm enjoying now.
Updating all the things 16th of January 2025 Play, tinkering and experimentation OR Friction and inaction redux.
Moving to Mastodon 25th of January 2023 Goodbye little blue bird, hello extinct elephant-like mammal!
Writing to think 27th of May 2022 I've been thinking a lot about why I write here, and what I get out of it, and I’ve realised it’s a handful of things.
Terrible, boring and hard 25th of May 2022 There’s at least one phase in pretty much everything I work on where things seem insurmountable. Where they are just terrible, boring and hard.
Repositioning Bold Wise 23rd of May 2022 A lot has change in the couple of years since I launched the Bold Wise website.
What is its job? 20th of May 2022 Making a shift from what to why by asking ‘what is its job?’
Alphabetising the recycling 17th of May 2022 Alphabetising your recycling is such a perfect way of describing those activities that seem, on the face of them, useful and productive but, as you dig in you realise that they are just busy-work.
On asking why, copying, and outcome bias 12th of May 2022 I seem to go through a cycle of thinking I ask ‘why’ way too much, and then, shortly after, that I don’t ask ‘why’ nearly enough.
Friction and inaction 11th of May 2022 For the past (checks last post date) six or so months, I've posted nothing here. In that time, though, I've been busier than ever. So what gives?
Switching to Eleventy 24th of September 2021 As foreshadowed I've moved the site's generator over to Eleventy, so I now have no excuse not to write more.
Bug fix 17th of February 2021 Today, in a handful of lines of pretty much copied and pasted code, I solved a bug that’s been plaguing a client site for months - if not years.