History at school was always super interesting, learning about the castles, the kings and queens, the battles and the exploration. In our lessons in the UK we always seemed to come out on the winning side; a convenient way that the syllabus was choreographed. I never took my formal history…

But not in a sad, morbid way. In a way that acknowledges that there is an end, that life is finite, that one day everything we experience in the world, the people, the places, the sights, the smells, will stop. At least for us. Being aware of the existence of…

I’ve always had admiration for my friend Ellis. He’d probably kill me for writing that. And it’s not because he’s a professional athlete, crisscrossing the UK and breaking ultra running records. It’s also not because he’s been true to himself, leaving London behind when everyone else was flocking there. …

In the middle of this year things at work really started to ramp up. I felt the weight of my own self-imposed expectations starting to take its toll. I was waking up at 4am almost every day, my mind spinning like a roulette wheel about what was coming up that…

This morning was one of those mornings where I still woke up early, my circadian rhythm conditioned to bring me into the world right around sunrise and be instantly ready for an ocean swim, a run or a gym session, but every muscle in my body begged for some rest…

Cambridge historian Brendan Simms wrote my favourite book on European history I’ve ever read — Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present. …

#DataBlog 2022 saw a drastic positive change in user sentiment towards our product with the largest subscriber base, as a team made up of engineers, BAs, product managers and customer success specialists combined forces to address the product’s number one challenge at the start of the year; report load times. The…

It’s fair to say that people don’t like being told what to do. In fact, a weird psychological trait we human’s have developed means that if someone tells you what to do you end up wanting to do the opposite. If someone says “don’t push that button”, you sort of…

This is not the time to falter. …