My father never migrated to a computer. He had an Olivetti Lettera 32, a small, portable typewriter that sat on his desk for decades. I can still hear him typing, working through letters to friends scattered across the world. Careful,…
There used to be a recognisable pattern to how I wasted time productively. I opened Facebook or LinkedIn to check something specific. Forty minutes later I had three new business ideas, two articles I meant to read, a competitor I…
I wake up at 5 am with five fully formed business ideas. I always have. Before AI, I wrote them down in shorthand and moved on. Now, before breakfast, I can have a 12-page plan, a budget model, a competitor…
A practical guide for SME owners operating in Thailand Thailand’s population stood at 65,809,011 as of 31 December 2025, according to the Central Registration Office under the Department of Provincial Administration. That is a drop of approximately 142,199 people from…
I needed a company card. Nothing complicated. A card to handle online subscriptions, overseas purchases, routine operational spending. The kind of thing every small business needs to function in 2026. The bank put a document in front of me. Twenty-three…
You probably think about one platform when you think about being found. Usually Google. Sometimes Facebook. Occasionally Instagram. The reality is more complicated, more fragmented, and more urgent than you realise. Today, there is no single place where your customers…
I always used the em dash. It was, for me, one of the most useful tools in written English — a mark that could hold a thought mid-flight, pivot without warning, or land a point with more weight than a…
There is a narrative that will not go away. It shows up on LinkedIn, at conferences, in business media. The message is roughly this: if you are over 40 and not yet using AI, you are falling behind. It sounds…
It is tax filing season, and for many people this is the time when questions start to come up. Why is this amount being deducted from my salary? Why does it change during the year? And how exactly does my…
Just got a message from Stripe – the payments app – telling me they are putting my company’s profile public. “In February, your Stripe profile will be discoverable by other businesses in the Stripe Dashboard. In the future, your Stripe…