Coding Is Now Solved
Have had so much fun today playing around with my neglected personal blog. Low stakes, just prompting ideas into reality with the help of Opus 5.5. It really…
From my investment notebook
All notes- Big mover
IREN falls 42pc from its high even as revenue jumped 41pcIREN shares are down 45.4% from their 52-week high and slid another 11.7% this week. The FY26 results on 27 August showed revenue up 41% to $707 million but a $684 million net loss and a warning of $25-30 billion in 2027 capex. Analysts at Redburn then started the neocloud group at Neutral, dragging IREN down with CoreWeave and Nebius even as JPMorgan raised its own target to $65. - Then & now
Bank of America bought Merrill for $50bn 18 years ago this monthOn 15 September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, Bank of America agreed to buy Merrill Lynch for about $50 billion in stock, ending 94 years of Merrill's independence. Eighteen years on, Merrill Wealth Management alone reported $4.1 trillion in client balances in the second quarter of 2026, with wealth and investment management net income up sharply on the year.
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All articlesStarting Again: Introducing Edzo
A poster on a classroom wall started Teach Starter. Now Jill and I are starting again with Edzo, a long-term home for education businesses.
Ranking My 9 Most Impactful Video Games
This was tough! I had to go with hours spent/most impactful. Honorable mentions: - Football Manager (many years across the franchise) - Fifa 95 and every year…
Agent Switching Costs and the Case for Open Memory
Agent switching costs are going to be immense. Think about everything your agent will learn over time: your work, your routines, your preferences, who matters…
Meta's VR Glasses Are Tempting Me Away From Apple
Incredible from $META today. The VR Glasses are the first Meta product I'm actually considering purchasing. They're pretty close to the glasses I want from…
Pivoting Edzo Learning
Pivoting @EdzoLearning. More to come soon… The product is overly complex. The positioning is unclear. There are some great features that probably deserve to…
Grok Checks My Garage Door State Via Camera Feed, No Sensor Needed
Asked @grok @bot to check my garage doors are closed at 8pm every night and ping me if they’re open. It figured out I didn’t have any devices connected that…
Astra Is Not AGI
Absolutely no chance Astra is AGI. In a few years, we’ll look back and laugh at the prospect. It’s clearly at the frontier. At times, it’s mind-blowingly…
From Design To Code And Back To Design, With AI In Between
I started my career in design; Photoshop mock ups, sliced up and coded into html/css. Over time, I shifted from design to code; ui libraries and just designed…
Agents Are Amazing but Still Frustrating
There’s something missing with every agent I’ve used. @bot is no different. The first few days it all seems amazing, surprising, revolutionary. Your…
Building Worlds, Not Worksheets: AI-Powered Learning Adventures
Imagine playing this to your Year 6 class before diving into maths. That’s the kind of learning experience we want to build. We believe education can be…
Two Sign Ups, One Record Day for Edzo
2 new sign ups yesterday for @EdzoLearning. Record day! Working on an awesome new feature that will be a game-changer for teachers. Add a topic, set your…
Coming Soon to @EdzoLearning: Dynamic Response Types for K-6 AI Tutorials
Coming soon to @EdzoLearning. AI-driven curriculum-aligned tutorials that adapt to the learner's level of mastery. The game changer? Dynamic response types.…
Introducing Edzo: Time to Go Again
Well... It's time to go again! Introducing @EdzoLearning Writing this story for Edzo brought up so many incredible memories of our journey with Teach Starter.…
Agentic Engineering Frees Your Working Memory
One massive advantage of agentic engineering is you no longer need to hold the entire mental model of your codebase in your brain’s working memory. This makes…
Agents Are Missing a Thought Loop
I feel like agents are missing a ‘thought loop’. They’re still reactive, prompt-summoned, or cron-invoked. They’re missing that proactive, spontaneity. This…
Beyond sci-fi: The convergence of AI, robotics, and graphics and their impact on our future
The rate of progress in the field of generative AI over the past 6 months has been truly staggering. The first flickers of mainstream progress emerged last…
Experimenting with DALL·E 2
OpenAI has just started inviting over 1 million people to use DALL·E 2. I was lucky enough to receive an invitation this morning and spent some time experimenting with prompts using the free credits.
The Magical Motivation of Progress and Traction
Ultimately, when I think about a startup, motivation is all that keeps the 1% chance of success alive.
The Future of Work: How AI will Change the Way We Operate
The efficiency and productivity gains available for businesses that figure out how to integrate their people with AI in a symbiotic way will be immense.
Deciding On The Next Big Idea
If we all work equally as hard, with an equally skilled and dedicated team, with just the right timing and a sprinkling of luck, then what separates the million-dollar businesses from the billion-dollar businesses?
Living in an Asynchronous World
As it turns out, time travel featured in sci-fi hasn't come to pass. But don't write it off just yet... a different kind of time travel is right under our nose. Welcome to the asynchronous world.
How to Get Rich Without Getting Lucky (Naval's Best Advice)
I am a huge fan of Naval Ravikant, the investor and founder of AngelList (among other things). His ability to distil a complex world into short, pithy…
A Productivity System for Life
A couple of years ago, I discovered the Wheel of Life. The Wheel of Life is a framework promoted by Tony Robbins that helps achieve a balance between the…
5 Actionable Steps to Writing Effective Blog Content
What is the purpose of writing a blog? I always say to the Teach Starter team that the number one reason should be to provide value to our readers—…
Care More Than Your Competition
When we began Teach Starter, our only focus was on delivering value to our customers. That’s it. We knew our customer and we knew what they needed. So we…
How We Doubled Our Blog Views to 300,000/Month in One Month
Teach Starter is a content-driven business. We create content for teachers to use in classrooms, in the form of teaching resources. We also create content…
Attitude is Everything
Last week I finished reading ‘Man’s Search for Meaning,’ a book by Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. Published in 1946, it details…
Give Your Customers a Reason to Celebrate Your Service
Here’s a test for you… Step 1: Reply to a customer’s email within 5 minutes. Step 2: Take a look at the response you receive. Do this often enough and…
Know Your Numbers
As a business owner your role is challenging and often all-encompassing. You’re required to wear many hats — seamlessly moving from product and marketing to…
The Myth of Setting Out To Change The World
As your ego grows and your success story is re-written, you give yourself permission to dream on a grander scale. The other day I read an interesting…
A Guide to Gathering Customer Feedback
This practical guide examines the tools and systems we used to scale our feedback machine to stay in the loop with over 250 000 members. It’s easy to stay…
5 Things I Wish I Knew In My Twenties
It’s up to you to live the life you want to lead. In your early twenties, it’s realistic to think that you have 10 years of freedom to pursue your goals…
Can you start a business with little to no money?
The simple answer is yes. Now, are you ready to get to work? My wife and I had been dating barely six months when we had an ‘aha’ moment that culminated in…
Discipline Wins
A story of how meeting my wife would instil in me the required discipline to change my life. As a high school student, if I had an assignment due on Friday…
Don’t Underestimate Curation
Curation vs creation? Spoiler alert: it’s not an either or. When businesses begin thinking about how they can use content to build their brand, they often…
5 Quick Takeaways from Five Years Growing a Business
It’s been five years since Jill and I launched Teach Starter. It all started with a mailing list and $2000 worth of Facebook ads. We decided early on that…
Why We Stopped Selling
Mindset is a beautiful thing. You can change your entire outlook by merely adjusting the way you think. When we launched Teach Starter, the only way I…
Two Years of Pain for a Lifetime of Gain
Jill and I had been dating for barely six months when the idea of Teach Starter materialised . Like most ideas upon inception, our initial enthusiasm was…
The Importance of Cultivating a Long Term Perspective
Last weekend, I spent time with some friends discussing their fledgling business. We talked at length about content and its role in developing their brand.…
The Day We Went All In On Content
If “content is king”, as Bill Gates famously proclaimed, why are so few businesses embracing it as a way to reach their customers? I can imagine that for…
10 Lessons Learned After 10,000 Customer Support Tickets
If it is done well, customer support can be a massive competitive advantage for your business. While I can’t claim to be an expert on customer support, I…
Crave the Unscalable
(Cover photo: December, 2013 — Packing mailing tubes for Teach Starter’s free poster promotion in January.) Before Teach Starter ever existed, I always knew…
The ‘All or Nothing’ Startup Fallacy
Starting a business can be a scary proposition. The odds are overwhelmingly stacked against you. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics , more…
Letting Go of the Day to Day
For five years I spent all but a handful of days working on the development of the Teach Starter website. As technical co-founder, it was my job to…
From Lego to Now: The Importance of Creativity
Anyone can make a difference. Anyone can solve problems. Anyone can change the world. We’ve just been taught not to.
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29 September, in years gone by1 year ago · Ran 14.0 km in 1h 15m 1 year ago · Rode 25.0 km in 55 min 4 years ago · Raced 21.8 km in 1h 42m 9 years ago · The Day We Went All In On Content
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