James is a CTO with over a decade of experience in the industry. He has a passion for helping businesses and individuals succeed online, and has a track record of delivering results.
He's customer obsessive, seeing design and technology as a tool to solve problems and add a bit of delight to people's lives.
James is a generalist straddling all things business, management, and mentoring and particularly excels when getting stuck in with all aspects of development from architecture & DevOps to creating immersive frontend experiences.
London, UK
Took prototype from 0 customers to over 100 SMBs with thousands of users depending on us to run their businesses.
London, UK
London, UK
London, UK
London, UK
California, USA & London, UK
London, UK
I created a service to aggregate calendars, weather, news and more to synthesise it in email form every morning so I could start the day better informed.
Whilst researching around a topic I care about; maximising human potential, I found this interesting excerpt from MIT which is “Organized, in part, on the basis of Maslow (1970)”.
When you’re committing to making progress on a goal, you have the strategic challenge of how to complete it. Often goals don’t have a finite end (unlike tasks), so aiming to “complete” them is to use the wrong lens...
When you’re serious about committing to a schedule around goal hacking you’re going to internalise many excuses why you can’t commit on a given day. We’ve been well versed in this phenomenon during exam...
In software engineering, a large component of the work involves the modification of existing code, often not your own. The act of refactoring...
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on improving the overall performance of our SaaS platform (OnCare) for user experience gains and profit. Hopefully, some of my fresh musings could be useful to you...
At OnCare we’ve gone to great pains to make a service that our customers love using. Part of our journey has been to ensure the app customers use through the day, every day works offline or on terrible...
Inspired by Derek Sivers nowpage movement, here's what I'm up to now.
Reading
Blogs
Fitness
Inspired by conversations in the geriatric space about the importance of [upper body] strength, I try to get to the gym most days for a mix of strength training. I believe in keeping long-term habits so I focus on modest weights and modest repetition.
Home improvements
I'm drip-feeding smart technology into the home, the latest gadget I installed was the Tado smart thermostat. It's been liberating moving away from a 90's era controller and thermostat.
Last updated: 1 December 2022.
