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New Hack: Process Monitor for Google Chrome with icon graphing CPU usage 3 Jun 2013 | 07:56 am
Use Google Chrome? Ever suffer from any of the following: Chrome slowing to a crawl? Tabs freezing up? Your computer’s fan whirring like crazy/laptop heating up? Particular sites like Gmail and Fa...
Looking back at 7 years with my startup GroupSpaces 17 Apr 2013 | 12:17 am
Today I announced that I’m joining the team at Stripe, after 7 years working on my startup, GroupSpaces. The decision to join Stripe was by no means easy, to say the least. The journey bringing GroupS...
I'm joining Stripe 17 Apr 2013 | 12:17 am
Today I’m excited to be joining the team at Stripe, helping reinvent payments on the internet globally. After spending the next few weeks with the team in San Francisco I’ll be back to continue calli...
"Pinterest for Tweets" - experimenting with a new layout for viewing Tweets using TweetDeck 27 Feb 2013 | 01:26 pm
TweetDeck is great, but it occurred to me my use case for it makes a rather poor job of my screen real estate. I use TweetDeck with a number of columns, each receiving updates at different frequencie...
TechBikers: I'm training to cycle 200 miles from Paris > London for Room to Read. Please sponsor us! 13 Sep 2012 | 04:19 pm
Friends, blog readers, assorted randoms - gift me your pennies! Along with a host of other folks from the London tech scene, I have somehow been coerced into cycling 200 miles from Paris to London, r...
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm”. This is my..." 4 Mar 2012 | 12:25 pm
““Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm”. This is my favourite quote by Winston Churchill. As an entrepreneur you should expect to fail repeatedly. And es...
I've written for The Kernel on why we should teach all our kids to code 24 Jan 2012 | 05:58 am
I've written for The Kernel on why we should teach all our kids to code: The Kernel has just published a column piece by yours truly taking a look at the state of computer science education in the UK...
"This deception happens nearly every day and is especially rampant in Silicon Valley where new..." 23 Jan 2012 | 04:44 am
“ This deception happens nearly every day and is especially rampant in Silicon Valley where new business models are created and standard metrics aren’t always available. It also reflects the optimist...
"If you are really interested in the challenge of making a big, inefficient market more efficient or..." 18 Jan 2012 | 06:21 pm
“ If you are really interested in the challenge of making a big, inefficient market more efficient or if you have spent time digging in and identified a multi-billion dollar market where capturing so...
I'll be contributing to The Kernel 12 Jan 2012 | 02:00 pm
I’ll be contributing monthly posts to newly launched online magazine The Kernel, generally with a tech slant, providing insights, opinion and reporting from a technical entrepreneur’s perspective. My...
