Here... I just write about the most random stuff
27 Feb 2025 1 minute read 3 comments LeftFooted $0.07
The other day I caught up with a friend after a while. "How's work? Still writing?" he asked. "Yep," I said. "So what do you think about AI?" he asked back. This is a recurring thing. When I tell people I write for a living they always mention AI...
22 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.05
Nothing, a cool budget smartphone brand with excellent marketing and nice UX, has recently launched a new beer. It's called Nothing 'Beer', and it's a light lager with 5.1% ABV. I haven't tried it, it's only available in the US at the moment, but I...
17 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted $0.03
They say that tragedies always come in three. Which they do. Yesterday morning, I woke up to some pretty bad news. Really bad news, if I'm honest. The sort of bad news that make your head tilt down a little, and your face grow dark, and your eyes c...
16 Feb 2025 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted $0.05
I went to bed last night feeling pretty good about myself. Things had happened. And it had been a good day. And I thought something I was looking forward to might happen. Then this morning I woke up and realised immediately it was going to be a bad d...
14 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.03
I don't know if you noticed, but FB has transitioned from a social media app, to an events/help/support app. No one posts on FB anymore, no one cares (figures of speech, obviously I don't mean literally 'no one') but, interestingly, it's a really go...
12 Feb 2025 2 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.04
I'm obsessed with Reacher. I've read every novel, most more than once, some of them more than 10 times or 20 times. There are several reasons why. Obviously I like the writing style but also I like how certain things are described. I definitely re...
5 Feb 2025 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted $0.05
I'm having a bad day today. I wish I could tell you, "no reason, I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed". But that wouldn't be true. I know the reason(s). There are probably four reasons. In no particular order. One, yesterday I had a conver...
26 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.09
Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, ie the first country in the world to adopt BTC as legal tender, is apparently the world's leader with the best approval rating. We should preface this by saying that political surveys mean very little. In a co...
26 Jan 2025 2 minute read 5 comments LeftFooted $0.07
People from my generation aren't having kids. This is a statistical certainty, and first reason they cite is financial difficulties. I understand the argument, but there are a couple of caveats to it. First of all, what financial difficulties? If...
24 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted $0.06
I've been writing for as long as I can remember. When I was in school, I used to write rap lyrics. I used to write poems. I used to write letters to people I never met. Then the internet became a thing, and so I started blogging. Then I started pitc...
