LeftFooted's Antics

LeftFooted's Antics

Here... I just write about the most random stuff


My first paid article

12 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

I penned my first-ever article in 2010 and wrote several every year for four years. For free. It didn't feel great but I did it for two reasons. One, I like writing anyway and two, I knew I needed to build a resume. I'm not a trained journalist. I...

I'm writing a book - and you're all in it

10 Oct 2023 1 minute read 4 comments LeftFooted

I wrote a few books between 2009 and 2015. All of them self-published, and one is available on Amazon. Since 2015, I've started writing many books, but I haven't finished any. And I intend to change that. The book I'm writing will be a collection o...

"It's just money"

10 Oct 2023 1 minute read 10 comments LeftFooted

I kinda hate it when people say "it's just money". It's a deadly, weird expression. First of all, it's always people with money that say "it's just money, you can always make it back". Yeah. This is especially true if you already have MORE money se...

As ever, understanding the problem is half the solution

9 Oct 2023 2 minute read 6 comments LeftFooted

Countries are made of people. We seem to forget that. No, actually, we seem to think that's not the case. Put it this way. If you live in a home by yourself, you live by your own rules. But add another person to the equation and already there'll be...

Should Publish0x implement an 'X-like' feature

4 Oct 2023 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

Facebook is dead in the water, Instagram is too image-focused, and then there's X - or Twitter, as most people still call it. Regardless of what you think of Musk, X is a good social network because it allows you to express your thoughts succinctly....

Blimey, our dogs live better lives than we do, don’t they

1 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

There’s a new ‘dog-friendly’ cocktail bar in London, called After Bark, and when I say ‘dog-friendly’, I mean they literally create cocktails for dogs. Located in London's Hackney Wick area, After Bark was designed by Barkney Wick, a community centr...

Cheer me up

29 Sep 2023 1 minute read 2 comments LeftFooted

I'm here but I really wish I wasn't. I wish I was 1,000 miles away. In a different country. Surrounded by different people, doing different things. But things happen, and so instead of being where I thought I would be, I'm having a beer at a pub nea...

Wish me luck

27 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Around two and a half months ago I had a pretty serious accident I'm still recovering from. Actually, that's incorrect. What I mean is, I broke some bones and they've healed, but there's more things I'm gonna have to do to get back in shape. Long s...

When it comes to content, quality is art, quantity is science

27 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

Internet users' limited attention span provides a great opportunity. If whatever you do is only valued for about 22 seconds before people get tired and move on, it means two things. First, if you make a mistake, it won't matter anymore after 22 sec...

I did something I swore I'd never do again

27 Sep 2023 1 minute read 1 comment LeftFooted

I just agreed to do something I swore I'd never do again. I write for a living, and I get paid a decent salary, but getting to this point was tough. It meant writing hours and hours every day, year on year, while working another job because I wasn't...