#Mental health
Mindset management, preventing burnout, emotional balance, and psychological wellbeing, from work-life balance purchases and core values exercises through to what actually helped after a genuinely hard year, honestly written.
Fighting the system and breaking my phone addiction
Scrolling Facebook, I noticed something: mostly ads, barely a friend in sight. What followed was months fighting a phone addiction, iPods, dumb phones, screen time settings, before one small NFC device actually broke the habit for good.
Surf workout: Strength, endurance & weight training
How I built my own surf strength training routine from scratch after a shoulder injury, the actual workout, the gear that matters, and what changed once I stopped chasing goals and built systems. No shortcuts, just a proper, structured plan.
Surf workout: Flexibility, stretching & mobility training
Improve mobility and recovery with surf-specific stretches, a minimal home gym setup, and small daily habits, like surf skateboarding, that stick once motivation fades. Built around what actually works, not just theory.
Surf workout: Post-surf stretching, nutrition & recovery
The stretch routine, hydration timing and nutrition habits that make recovery actually happen, especially in winter when it's the last thing you want to do. Built around the same gluten and dairy-free rules as everything else here.
Claude Assist: Flip the narrative with reverse prompting
How reverse prompting, Claude asking the questions instead of me writing the brief, finally got my ideas out of my head and onto the screen without losing my own voice somewhere along the way. A method I'll genuinely keep using going.
30+ best stand-up comedy specials of all time to watch
One person, a microphone, and an hour to win over a room full of strangers, there's something captivating about a great stand-up special. Here's a personal, ranked list of 30+ of the best, crowd-pleasers to career-defining sets.
One wrong booking ended up with five cards on the table
Everyone has values. Few people can actually name their own core values without stopping to think hard about it. Here's how one wrong online booking led me to finally find mine, and why I wish I'd done it sooner. A five minute exercise that.
How I’m wired: ENFJ, CliftonStrengths & pattern recognition
Personality tests are one of those things hiring managers love to ask about. Rather than hunting through old emails every time, here's how my ENFJ result, CliftonStrengths top 10, and neurodivergent thinking all point the same way.
32 UX certifications: Interaction Design Foundation courses
After almost 20 years in UX/UI, I wanted some formal qualifications behind me. 32 courses in with the Interaction Design Foundation, covering everything from design thinking and research through to AI, accessibility and mobile UX.
Baked chicken recipe based on the KFC 11 herbs & spices
Four cheeseburgers and a Coke for five bucks fed a whole afternoon of bodyboarding as a teenager. This baked version of the KFC 11 herbs and spices recipe scratches the exact same itch, minus the deep fryer this time around.
Essentials for home to enhance your work-life balance
Work-life balance sounds like something you fix with one big decision. Mine came together from a stack of much smaller ones, starting with a pair of noise-cancelling headphones I bought almost by accident a few years back.
Questions I ask when interviewing & applying for UX roles
The questions I actually ask when interviewing for a UX/UI design role, plus the frameworks, from the three lenses of innovation through to the double diamond, that shape how I work once hired. Questions that reveal more than a resume ever.