Top straight white guy jobs in '25

or How to unleash that secret talent you’re sure you have somewhere, big guy

Doing things is hard. Making new things requires understanding existing things. Skills take time to develop, tools need to be mastered, creativity requires imagination. Who can be arsed? Certainly not the straight white guys of the internet!

Here are some things they can fall upwards into, despite everything about them.

If it saves just one life

There’s talk about death and some might say I am insensitive here and if you don’t fancy that then please read something which will make you happy

I’ve heard this phrase come up a few times recently, I think mostly on Radio 4.

If it saves just one life, isn’t it worth doing?

For some reason the presenter didn’t dare give the correct answer to this question:

Releasing music for drecks

some decisions and why I made them

We have made a new album. Listen on Bandcamp, Tidal, Spotify, YouTube, or Apple Music.

The Fighting Mongooses — Instrumental Driving Music for Drecks.

We’ve pretty much used all the toys on this one.

Enjoy the interval

having a break from big dumb power chords

It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. We can all get happy staying in our comfort zones. I’ve been struggling to write music lately just because I haven’t been trying to do anything beyond the basics.

Criticise this!

or perhaps Learn to Shut Up

Everyone fancies themself as a critic. Everyone who can’t do a thing but reckons if they did do it then it would be better than you could do it. Music, film-making, art, whatever.

Art. Load of old rubbish.

It’s the premise of half the internet now. Imdb or Yelp or Glassdoor or wherever you go. What do you think? Feel important, share your feelings.

Rethinking product pricing.

or Why traditional SaaS pricing models fail and what I’m going to do about it

Selling stuff is super hard. You need people to take a punt on what you’ve made, usually by lowering the sense of risk for them. You need their feedback to improve your design and also to advocate for your item.

But then you need to make some actual cash so you hike the prices and don’t worry about letting your early advocates churn because new customers will make up for it. It’s rough

Meanwhile, in ancient Rome

We went to Pompeii and it was a lot.

Pompeii and Vesuvius

My partner and I are both reformed history geeks. We’re not so occupied with the past these days but I think either of us would have said that we were pretty knowledgable on Pompeii for people who hadn’t been there in person. We’d know to look in the hortus

Now we know.

I’ve added a now page to the site. If you have a site a bit like this, maybe you should give it a go too?

The now page is there to be a quick summary of what I’m up to, what I would explain to a friend I hadn’t caught up with in a while. It’s different to a social media page, where you might share things on a more minute level, or to a blog where each post would have its own narrow scope. The now page has its own brief.

In Bloom (or maybe Come As You Are)

I am not much of a gardener. Sometimes I will get out there and do some hacking and chopping and digging and pruning, but only for theraputic reasons. It feels nice to me when I can impress my will upon the hectic growth.

Nevertheless if I just left it to do what it wanted then the landlord and neighbours would be bothered by this. I feel like the garden and I have this unstable equilibrium where we gently push against each other until a reaction is provoked.

Where did the Nico logo design originate?

I put together a logo of my name soon after I chose my name itself. It looks like this:

This is my logo thing.

This is how I put it together.