Every year I have this bizarre ritual of making my own calendar pages for my day planner, planning out a year in course detail, and leaving large chunks of time blank. Think, adding birthdays and dates I have to remember, then jotting down a note like “Q1 goal: get systems organised”, then not actually breaking […]
Last year I took a business incubation course to increase my knowledge, expand my network, and really get more direction for Insanitek and myself. The course I decided to take was called The Flight Formula. I’d give you the link to it, but the website appears to be down now. If you’d like to learn […]
For those of you that didn’t know, we moved from the crappy, crime ridden place to a bigger place that doesn’t have evidence of flooding and a bit less crime. OK, to be fair, we’re still slowly unpacking and putting our life back together. And I’m wasted. Not just from the move, but because allergies […]
I love doing community outreach where I get to work closely with intuitive minds that are exploring something new. To me it’s fun to hear what “non-scientists” think or come up with, and they often ask questions that I hadn’t thought of before, or challenge me to explain things a new way. You hear some […]
Business, as in life, there are milestones. I’ve had two milestones here on my personal blog, a couple with Insanitek, and a few in my personal life. Over the last month you can tell I’ve been fiddling with this or that on the blog. The first thing I started to fiddle with was a way […]
Bootstrapping, traditionally, involves limiting overhead while focusing on making a single project or service work for you. According to Seth Godin, it’s a state of mind, not necessarily a financial state of being. Unfortunately, for working poor people with dreams, it’s a state of being — financially, intellectually, and emotionally. We strive to build something that […]
I realise this is not the new year for most people, but I don’t celebrate life like most people, either. To me, this is my new year. I have survived another 365 days of my life and begin another 365 day cycle. To me, this is the new year. 33 years have past, and I […]