There’s two truths as a consumer looking for real estate in Australia: With all of this it feels like there are hardly any tools to help make well thought through decisions. Until recently I did what everyone else was doing. I just thought I’d have to pay for help, or be at the whim ofContinue reading “Data Driven Decisions: How I use NSW Government Housing Data”
Category Archives: experiments
Increase Email Engagement Through Binary Choices
“Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.” Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less TLDR; I increased my unique click throughs by up to 60% (and 11% in long term) when IContinue reading “Increase Email Engagement Through Binary Choices”
Volunteer work: Hour of Code
A recent Saturday saw a few dads and I run an Hour of Code at our local primary school. Hour of Code is basically what it sounds like – helping students in years k – 6 understand coding fundamentals for an hour using engaging and novel online activities. We had a load of fun, withContinue reading “Volunteer work: Hour of Code”
Fun with micro-brands: Liquid Metal
This year – my family and I started being a bit more focussed in ‘joint time’ around a little thing we’d been doing inadvertently for a few years – collecting coins. So much so we’d go to the bank to get change, and rumble through it to look for interesting or rare coins. One timeContinue reading “Fun with micro-brands: Liquid Metal”
Digital Art – Niphal Glitch
I’ve started a new project called Niphal Glitch to enjoy the process of creating for the sake of it. My world is very concrete a lot of the time with little kids, and also the world of marketing. So being able to just get a bit abstract, and enjoy making something of my own givesContinue reading “Digital Art – Niphal Glitch”
A quicker way to navigate your job
I’m still relatively new to the corporate environment, and after the last decade or so of running a small business – I’m accustomed to hustling all day to get things done. One of the things that I continue to wonder is, ‘how do large businesses even make any money?’. I don’t ask the question becauseContinue reading “A quicker way to navigate your job”
Pop up Crop Drop | Bus building a micro business
« Previously… With my seed funding and more product available I chuffed off to buy myself four more boxes of seeds. We got home shortly after and had a few boxes on the floor. My daughter in her excitement emptied the boxes all over the house – I was almost as excited so a littleContinue reading “Pop up Crop Drop | Bus building a micro business”