The journal
Notes and essays on the things I work on, think about and experience — across life, adventure, consulting and technology.
4 min read
The second half of a story I stopped short on earlier this year. We fixed the food first and deliberately left exercise alone until it was holding — and the order turned out to matter more than either of us expected.
3 min read
Thirty-two minutes on Zwift before dinner — 13.07km, 101m of climbing and no faffing with lights or kit. The shortest ride of the challenge so far, and the easiest one to say yes to.
3 min read
My first indoor ride of the challenge — 25.07km on Zwift through Watopia, straight through the middle of a volcano, and harder than the road for reasons I didn't expect.
3 min read
The slowest ride of the challenge so far, and comfortably the best one — 12.84km with my daughter, a stop halfway to listen to the birds, and a conversation I didn't expect.
4 min read
The AI Act's high-risk obligations were deferred by sixteen months, six days before they were due to apply. Rather less moved than the headlines suggest, and an organisation that stopped when the date changed has learned something about its own programme.
2 min read
The best ride of the challenge so far — 30.72km through a golden-hour sunset, with the legs finally starting to settle into the month.
4 min read
Most of England’s two-tier areas now know what their new councils will look like. The maps are settled and the date is fixed — but almost nothing about how the services will actually run has been decided yet.
2 min read
Ride two of the Cycle the Month Challenge: 18.97km after a long day at work. Not the biggest ride of the month, but the kind that keeps a challenge alive.
3 min read
The Cycle the Month Challenge for Prostate Cancer UK has begun — first ride done, at the end of one of the most demanding weeks I've had in a long time.
