This is the tech-y email you need to pay attention to. Fraud and identity theft is at an all time high right now. “But Stephen, I’m good. My security is on point!” It might be. Until it isn’t. People have…

I think I’m a day or two away from being back to my regular ol’ self again. It’s not been fun being man down while becoming an empty puddle of whatever? (Mentally that is) I’m starting to get hungry again…

And why feeling like shit can save your life. Now I know the self help sunshine brigade is going to hate this, but here’s a truth that’ll make them clutch their crystals and reach for their gratitude journals… Disgust is…

During the last week and a bit of being ill. There’s one thing I’ve always neglected on the road to recovery. And that one thing was learning to breathe well… Especially when you’re coughing up parts of your lung while…

Time for one of my regular soap box rants… Yes I’m still sick, but I’m miles better. I’ve somehow magically recovered my ability to think and put words down again. Although during this period of man-flu-whatever, I did a bit…

I hate missing my daily emails because they’re cathartic for me. However, I’ve been stuck in bed with a combination of a migraine so intense, I’ve not been able to be subject to bright lights, while feeling as if someone…

Saw a Dragon Ball Z ad on YouTube today and suddenly I’m eight years old again, racing home from school to catch the latest episode, arguing with friends about whether Goku could beat Superman, and spending my little bits of…

I’m not much of a news fan. But the last few days have been insane. I won’t go into detail, but here in the UK it just seems to be getting worse as the days go on. (and yes there…

If you ever read or hear those words uttered to you. You know full well that the person sharing them has been infected by the LLM bullshit infected our society. It’s weird cause I’ve been reading a lot of autobiographies…

On the 30th of October 1938 a radio broadcast based on a science fiction novel caused mass hysteria across New England… Orson Welles’s adaptation of War of the Worlds. The first part of the broadcast imitated news bulletins and announced…

Now if I could bust out some bars like the Wu-Tang clan. I wouldn’t be writing emails to you, my number one fan… That said. I fell asleep in what I can only believe is a pose that has managed…

“Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.” Probably one of my favourite sayings from ol’ Iron Mike. The thing is. We’ve created a consequence free zone where people…

Today I thought it was a good idea to sit around and do nothing. Turns out that “nothing” was actually the worst fucking thing I could’ve done. I’m still getting over whatever it is that I caught, which managed to…

I have a particular talent for psychological self torture, which is why I’m rewatching Johnny Depp in Transcendence while AI chatbots are getting better at writing than most humans and everyone’s pretending this is totally fine and normal… [DEEP BREATH]…

This is gonna be a straightforward one. What hobbies do you have or have neglected this year? I need something fresh to dive deep into, so I’d love to see what you’re already obsessed with. Yes. I read and write…

It’s very rare for me to get annoyed at anything. But customer support is where most businesses go to die. Whether you’re a solo business owner or some corporate behemoth, it’s wild to me that the thought of ignoring your…

Hey you. Yes you. Put down that copywriting book. Stop reading another blog post about “the secret to high converting headlines.” Quit circle jerking with other copywriters who all learned from the same three gurus who learned from the same…

If you’re reading this, you’ve already won the lottery. Not the financial one. (I mean that would be cool too, I guess…) Though if you’ve got internet access and time to read emails, you’re doing better than billions of people.…

There’s an epidemic of people carrying books. I mean it feels like those clowns who carry around designer handbags, but deep down we know they don’t put much in there so they don’t destroy it. But the funny thing is…

We’ve created a generation of chronically miserable shitweasles who feed on outrage and sustain themselves entirely through online conflict. You know the type. You present them with factual information. Complete with sources, references, peer reviewed studies and they immediately refute…

AWS absolutely fucking imploded today, taking half the internet down with it like some archaic house of cards built by a bunch of vibe coders… Websites crashed. Apps became glorified loading screens. Services that millions of people depend on daily…

As much as I want to brainwash myself into being a productivity machine… Optimising my morning routine, tracking my habits, measuring every fucking minute for maximum efficiency, sometimes I just need to have a completely pointless conversation about whether or…

Bonjour… You remember that time when you were a naïve kid thinking that adults seem to have their shit together? The thing is. Nobody knows what they’re doing. Seriously. Nobody. Generally they’re making it up as they go. That person…

It’s that time of the year where everyone talks about mental health. The thing is. Your mental health isn’t some weird optional maintenance. You need to truly look after it. You wouldn’t ignore a broken bone or a persistent cough,…

Purity and perfection are entangled together like lovers who can’t let go. A romantic metaphor right? When you sit down to tackle that blank page. You look at it and you know it’s perfect the way it is right now.…

It’s October, which means it’s officially Halloweenis. Which is my made up holiday for when spooky season collides with the brutal reality that you still need to pay rent and sell your creative warez. We’re creatives and artists but we…

Remember when The Matrix felt like science fiction? I do. Ahhh. Good times… I mean it all seemed like a cool philosophical speculation instead of getting down and dirty on Tuesday trying to wash off the stink of existentialism. But…

I know I’ve harped on about AI and all it’s radical bullshittery that’s being force fed down into our throats over the years. Certain people basing their lives and their whole personality around it, hoping it takes off and changes…

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” Hunter S. Thompson knew something most writers never figure out… You have about fifteen seconds to grab someone by the throat and…

Three thirty in the afternoon and I’m sweating into my third cup of coffee at some godforsaken strip mall type of coffee shop just off of the corner of a grunge-y looking building, waiting for a man who said he’d…