I love technology! And I consider myself deeply privileged to be alive at a time when this stuff is moving so fast that even people of low capacity like myself are able to take advantage of it.  When I was first diagnosed as a diabetic in 1971 there were no computers as we understand them … Read more

The last few weeks of each year are traditionally occupied with looking ahead, getting direction, and setting yourself up for failure as you break all those resolutions (and plans for a better you) by yelling at the kids, deliberately stomping on the cats tail, and (my personal favourite) giving some digital direction to some fellow … Read more

I have been inspired this past month to catch up on some reading, in this particular case on the vagaries of the stock market. I have spent my entire life pondering how risky it is. Yet, reading about the strategies and life of Warren Buffett (about the richest man in history) you wouldn’t think so. … Read more

In China, I once read, the government has an affirmative action policy which significantly favours ugly women. This is because the Chinese government believes that prepossessing damsels have so many other advantages in life. It may no longer be true, but it sure highlights that no decision is never going to make everyone happy. (I … Read more

If you are a business owner I’d like to borrow some money from you this week, if I may? I don’t want to borrow from my bank because they do all those nasty credit checks to determine whether I am, in fact, creditable. Heck, they even go so far as to check my criminal record. … Read more

If you are a business owner I’d like to borrow some money from you this week, if I may? I don’t want to borrow from my bank because they do all those nasty credit checks to determine whether I am, in fact, creditable. Heck, they even go so far as to check my criminal record. … Read more

Life is a fascinating journey, peppered with extremes. For example, on the one side we have the frantically driven, deeply inspired, focused, people following their passion. The less life they have (and the more obviously successful they are) the more they become our icons – the Bill Gates’s, the Richard Branson’s, heck, even the Maggie … Read more

Felix Dennis wrote a wonderful book on how to get rich — and he should know, because he did — and now whiles away his days on an island beach in the Caribbean. His book is typically English — no-nonsense, with a scathing opinion on all the people telling you how to make it, but … Read more

Felix Dennis wrote a wonderful book on how to get rich — and he should know, because he did — and now whiles away his days on an island beach in the Caribbean. His book is typically English — no-nonsense, with a scathing opinion on all the people telling you how to make it, but … Read more

I am being let loose this weekend on two of groups of unsuspecting souls who think I might know a little about small business. Don’t know where they got the idea from because the more I learn the less I feel know! It’s the Woza Ekhaya bash at the Chelsea Football Ground, and my role is to … Read more