Everything I've written down.
21 posts, three subjects, no filler. Every one written after doing the thing — not after reading about it.
My AI Workflow — And the Three Places It Still Fails
The honest version. What AI genuinely saves me hours on, what it quietly makes worse, and the review step I refuse to skip after getting burned.
Read the postInstagram Tools: What's Actually Worth Paying For
Tool round-ups age badly and are mostly driven by affiliate rates. Organised by job to be done instead — work out which of four constraints is actually yours, then buy for that one.
Instagram Scheduling: What the Apps Can and Can't Do
Scheduling won't improve your reach. It will make you publish consistently, which is more useful. The API limitation that explains every feature difference, and how to build a queue that survives.
Instagram Growth Services: The Four Models Sold as One
Four different business models get sold under one label, and the differences matter more than the provider. What each one actually does, why follow/unfollow stopped working, and the ratio to check before you spend.
Instagram Bots: Why They're a Bad Trade
The case against bots isn't moral — it's that the trade fails on its own terms. What they actually do, why ranked distribution broke them, and the four risks in order of likelihood.
How Often Should You Post on Instagram? The Honest Answer
Frequency is one of the weaker variables, and treating it as the main one is why plenty of consistent accounts stay flat. What actually drives reach, and a six-week method for finding your own number.
Buying Twitch Viewers: Why It Backfires Faster Than Elsewhere
Viewbotting is easier to detect and more damaging on Twitch than on other platforms. Why it's a revenue-integrity problem rather than a vanity one, and why a silent chat undoes the number.
Buying SoundCloud Plays: What You're Actually Paying For
Three mechanically different things get sold under one label, and only one of them produces a listener. What the categories are, what SoundCloud's terms say, and the seven checks worth running before you pay anyone.
Buying Instagram Followers: What 'Real and Targeted' Actually Means
Every provider uses the same three words and each is doing work the product doesn't support. What they really mean, the arithmetic of what it does to your engagement rate, and the one narrow case where it isn't insane.
The Permit Before the Permit: Why Your Thai TIP Depends on an FVP
You cannot get a Thai Temporary Import Permit without a Foreign Vehicle Permit first, and the FVP cannot be bought at the border. The document chain, the open crossings, the insurance small print and how far ahead to start.
The Carry-On Tech Kit I've Rebuilt 11 Times
Four years, 40-odd countries, and a bag that finally stopped annoying me. Every item, what it replaced, and the three things I stopped carrying entirely.
How Search Actually Decides What to Show You
Crawling, indexing, retrieval, ranking, and the generated answer on top. A plain-English walkthrough of the pipeline, with the parts you can influence marked.
Why I Still Ship Static Sites in 2026
No build server, no framework churn, no 3am deploy failures. What static actually costs you, and the exact point where I stop recommending it.
eSIM vs Local SIM vs Roaming: The Actual Math
I tracked the cost per usable gigabyte across 14 countries. The convenient option is roughly 6x the price of the annoying one — here's when that's still worth paying.
The Research Method: From Vague Question to Publishable Answer
The six-step loop I run before writing anything factual. It's slower than guessing and it's the only reason I've had to publish very few corrections.
I Built 17 Automations. Five Survived the Year.
A post-mortem on the twelve that died. The pattern behind the survivors turned out to be embarrassingly simple, and it isn't about the tooling.
Working Across Time Zones Without Wrecking Your Sleep
The scheduling rules I follow when my clients are in one hemisphere and my bed is in another. Includes the overlap-window math that made it sustainable.
How to Spot Bad Data in Under a Minute
Seven checks that catch most junk statistics before you repeat them: sample size, base rate, source chain, date drift, and the three framing tricks.
Own Your Data Before the Platform Changes Its Mind
Three times a platform I depended on changed the rules overnight. What I moved in-house afterwards, what I left, and how I decide now.
Long-Haul on Points Without Churning Credit Cards
A slower, boring, entirely sustainable approach to award travel that survives having a normal credit score and a normal amount of free time.
How to Write a Guide People Actually Finish
Completion rate is the metric nobody reports. Here's what moved mine from 22% to 61% without shortening a single article.
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