Today, January 19 2015, is my paternal Grandma’s 80th birthday. Or at least, it would have been if she were still alive. Grandma died in May 2013. I was overseas on holiday at the time – her health hadn’t been great, but it had been a slow decline over many years so her hospitalisation and...

Ten years ago today, on October 28 2004, I surprised even myself by ticking off what I thought would be a much longer term aspiration: creating an urban legend of sufficient worth that the esteemed Snopes.com team would debunk it. You can see the original entry on Snopes here. And the legend is thus: I’m not one...

Source: MarkMapstone.com I normally save the “In the Media” heading a tag (yes, tag – you can use these to track common articles on my site, like all of my media appearances) for news publications and websites, but I’ll make an exception in this case. It’s a blog post by UK based web designer (that’s underselling him)...

Here’s a question I get asked from time to time: why, when I write, do I always refer to my beautiful wife as “my beautiful wife”? And it is something I do deliberately: Here’s an example from Hacker News in 2010; here’s an example from my ‘About Jacob Aldridge’ page; and here’s a recent tweet....

I’ve selected a handful of heuristics in my life that I credit with making me happy(ier). Here’s one of the big ones: Never Run for Public Transport. I developed this decision-making framework in my final year of university. (That was a happy year for a lot of reasons, but I don’t want to digress). Brisbane...

Source: MortgageLoan.com I’m not only asked to comment on small business news stories – sometimes my wider life experience leads to some expert requests. In this article, Aaron Crowe examines the tough decision for many 20-something and 30-something year old couples: Do we spend our savings on the Wedding we want, or as a House...