Cult of Mac
I write a regular column about fitness for tech news website Cult of Mac.
Fitness Handbook
I’ve written a free ebook for Cult of Mac: “Get in shape with iPhone and Apple Watch”
My cancer story
My journey through cancer, and how this experience taught me to enjoy life.
Blog
It’s time for Apple Watch to get serious about fitness
Apple puts fitness front and center in its advertising for Apple Watch Series 2, even going so far as to claim the device is a “superior sports watch.” But in reality, it is not a sports watch at all. It’s a smartwatch. And that’s a massively important distinction....
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I can’t wait to reply to App Store reviews in iOS 10.3
I’m not so thin-skinned that I can’t handle the occasional criticism. But there’s something about App Store reviews that really bugs me. Like most indie developers, I put blood, sweat and tears into my app, Reps & Sets, which I develop with my partner. It’s our...
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Why Apple should make a cheap activity band
The Activity app is one of Apple’s most important and powerful products. Its three brightly colored rings are changing people’s lives around the world, inspiring individuals to make healthier choices throughout their day. The trouble is, if you want to use the...
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My cancer story
“We are the lucky ones” Three years ago, I was diagnosed with a rare form of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. After lots of tests and surgery, I was prescribed chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Fortunately, I responded so well to the chemo, that it turned out the radiotherapy was...
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Great creatives don’t fight feedback
Most creatives are not good at receiving feedback. Quite the opposite in fact. They’ve learned to resist feedback, believing that it’s a part of their job to be “misunderstood” and to fight the “suits”. They dig in their heals to defend their ideas. And there’s...
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How our words shape our experience, and why diets don’t work
Have you ever noticed how the words you use to describe an experience eventually replace your actual memories of that experience? For example, I ran the New York Marathon last year. When I got back home, people asked me how it was, so I described it to them. After I...
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Using “Save As…” to navigate the creative maze
Developing creative ideas is not a steady linear progression of refining ideas to make something gradually better and better. Quite the opposite, in fact. The creative process is something more akin to a navigating a maze. If you mentally prepare yourself for a few...
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The skin I live in: a 7 year journey
As my latest round of cancer treatment is coming to an end, it has prompted me to reflect upon the mind-body journey I’ve been on. I’d had rashes all over my body for many years, without realising I had cancer. But in 2007, I found a big lump in my groin, went to the...
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