Just a quick post tonight as Rose and I pack for her big swim in Rottnest. My fellow Awesome Foundation Sydney member, Scott Drummond, shared a link with me the other week which I noted to post and share. It’s embedded below. The video walks through how the RECAPTCHA project has allowed for thousands of [...]

As you’ll (hopefully) notice, this blog has had a small design change in the last day. I’ve been very happy to have trialled the new service ThemePivot, from Ned and the guys at Native Digital. I’ll go in to more detail about how I found the service and some ideas I have about it in [...]

As many of you would be aware, I’ve been trying to build a habit of posting to this blog once every day since mid December. In that time, I’ve learned a lot about writing on the internet and also about the topics I’ve written about. I really admire and respect people like Fred Wilson, who [...]

There’s a new service, Sherpaa, that someone forwarded to me during the week. My apologies but I forget where I saw it. Anyways, either way it’s an interesting business. It’s essentially a digital medical service for people that don’t, or can’t, visit a doctor but who have something they want to get checked. It seems [...]

The Awesome Foundation is going to be partnering with Australian Crowd Funding website Pozible from now on. This evening I attended the excellent event Let’s Talk Crowd Funding, put on by the guys from Pozible Rick and Alan to announce the new partnership here in Sydney. Our awesome brothers and sisters in Melbourne have already [...]

There’s a great FastCompany article out at the moment all about Jack Dorsey and Square. It’s a fantastic read because it goes into a bit more depth than normal about Dorsey and how he came to set up Square. It also touches on the different things that happen at Square to help keep the culture [...]

Today, as you probably are aware, is valentines day. And so I thought it was a relevant day to share with you all what my amazing partner Rose is about to attempt. Next week, on Saturday the 25th of February, Rose will be swimming from Cottesloe Beach (in Perth) to Rottnest Island. That’s a pretty [...]

There’s a great video of Mailchimp cofounder Ben Chestnut doing the rounds at the moment. Ross sent it to me a couple of days ago and on his strong recommendation I made the time to watch the whole thing yesterday evening whilst it was raining here in Sydney. Ben talks about a range of things, [...]

Right before the end of the year, I posted about keeping a habit calendar and the various habits I was working on developing in the new year. It’s now February 12th and I’m in a position to reflect on the year that’s been and how I’ve gone in forming some new habits. My habit calendar [...]

Tonight Australian time, it will be Square’s third birthday. When I was in San Francisco earlier this month Ross and I dropped in to have lunch with Xavier and got the tour of their awesome office. It’s certainly a bubbling and exciting company working towards a big mission; revolutionising how we handle money and transactions. [...]