A rant against the most annoying habit in business — I run two little companies on my own. One is quite traditional and provides a service that many other companies do. It’s doing well and growing organically. The quality of our work is good and word is spreading. The other company came out of the first, via a Research &…

If you like a drink, this could be a game-changer… — Do you dismiss no and low alcohol beer as something you’d only have as a last resort? That was me until a couple of weeks ago… but I’ve been very quickly made to think differently. A recent concussion left me off the booze for a while. But in a way…

…and it combines the most bizarre of ingredients in a way that really works — There’s a joke that’s been around for a while: “I met someone the other day who didn’t have a podcast. Weirdo.” I was aware of this joke when I started my own podcast — inspired by my joyous journey into homebrewing — and did consider whether it was just a…

…and this is exactly the type of episode I started this podcast to make — When you think of starting something new, you need a little vision of it working to push you from what Peter Thiel would characterize as “zero to one”. When I contemplated starting a small independent beer podcast, just for fun, I also wanted it to serve some kind of purpose…

…and if you like a 1970’s detective mystery, you’re in for a treat — I love the strange bizarre places that this podcast takes me too. This episode combines two of them. Firstly, the Palmers Brewery in Bridport, Dorset, UK. Not a strange bizarre place per se, but fascinating nonetheless and it was there that I met (we were on the same tour) the…

Financially, no… mentally, yes. — I’ve just broken a key “rule” to succeeding on Medium. You’re supposed to leave an information gap in the headline or subtitle that teases readers into clicking and reading… preferably all the way to the end (since earnings are based on member read time). You know the kind of thing: …

I know because I’m doing it — This is the kind of article that should be in The Startup (Or StartItUp or whatever it is called nowadays) or Better Marketing, or one of the big publications. It’s a true first-hand account about entrepreneurship, which, of course is what those publications are supposed to be for. But it…

Hear me out… — In the Northern Hemisphere, Christmas is during the Winter and, well… It makes no sense. It’s cold, wet and dark. And everyone gets ill, all the time. Let’s do the sensible thing and move it to the Summer. Just imagine… no frantic re-arranging of plans because older relatives and younger…

What will you believe? — Get to a healthy weight and stay there for the rest of your life. That’s just 14 words. But for some of us, those fourteen words can equate to decades of challenge. It shouldn’t be so hard. But we have a world hell-bent on making us want to eat and…