Writing
Essays on living abroad, money, building, coffee and thinking.
2026
- Is roasting coffee at home worth it? What 130 roasts taught me
- Roast or brew: who do you blame?
- Copy roasting is the training wheels of home roasting
- Building got so fast the real work is idea generation
- Deterministic vs. agentic controlled Ai workflows
- Rediscovering the known: being a generalist
- 77 Roasts Later: Vibe Roasting My Way to Specialty Coffee
- How I Code Today
- The Home Roaster Business Case
- I don't think content SEO is dead
- Buying coffee gear directly from China
2025
- VS Code Copilot for marketing, seo and investing
- My Daily AI Stack (Plus Better Coffee)
- Weekly Wheel Income - week ending October 24th
- Weekly Wheel Income — Week of 2025-10-18
- Playing with coffee data
- Rediscovering the known - Working From the Floor
- Paying rent by selling covered calls?
- Rediscovering the known - Filter Coffee
- Good Dopamine, bad Dopamine
- Simple Automation Workflows
- Digital Marketing NZ: Small Business Guide (2026)
- Hedging Against the AI Transition
- Beyond the Big Wins - Unpacking the Cumulative Power of Your Efforts
- From a 20ft Container to Six Bags
- 18 Months, 6 Pivots, $35 MRR: What PMF Actually Looks Like
- Rediscovering the Known: Breathing
- The Fisherman's Dilemma: Why 'Enough' Is the Hardest Financial Number to Find
- Automate Marketing, automate anything
- Building Apps With AI
- Bubble Biases
- Speaking > Writing 🤯
- Selling Your Time
- Make Space for Your Best Work
- AI Just Made You Twice as Fast
- Money Can Buy Time - How Much Time Can You Buy?
- Understanding Tariffs
- Expat Series: Cost of Living
- Expat Series: Moving For Taxes
- Expat Journey: Know Before You Go
- My Expat Journey
- Expense Sorted & F-You Money Sheet V2
- Using Obsidian and Cursor for writing
- Acting and Iterating on Ideas
- The Good Enough Mindset
2023
- How to get what you want in life
- Towns with surf > towns with no surf!
- Sounding Board
- Doing stuff we did 20k years ago
- Expense Sorted: version 1 available
- No Code Python: Analyse data without knowing how to code
- A webApp that categorises your expenses
- Me improving SEO
- Learning by cheating
- A Google Sheet Addon that classifies your expenses
- Getting into a routine while travelling is hard.
- Expense Classification. How it started. How it's going.
- AI-Assisted Writing
- Building an Expense classification app with Python and NextJS
- Fuck you money doesn’t mean you need to be rich
- How to build a prototype