2 factor or multi-factor authentication (2fa for short) is a critical tool in maintaining your online security. Almost all web based services nowadays offer it, especially “high value” targets that may be used to steal your cash or identity like online banking, email,...

Regular mobile numbers are attached to a SIM card, those little plastic things that go into a slot in your mobile phone. Even though an increasing number of modern phones support what’s called an “eSIM”, they don’t really work all that differently from normal SIM...

As the final holdouts of the CDMA mobile networks are switched off in the US in 2020/21, all mobile phones in the entire world will soon run on the “GSM network” (the rest of the world switched off their analog and CDMA networks a long time ago). GSM phones use a...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has had many impacts: from hundreds of thousands of deaths, to record unemployment around the globe, to the collapse of the travel industry, to seismic shifts in geopolitics (the results of which will likely be felt for decades to come)....

There is a strong tendency by humans seeking to gain control over their lives to use time and dates as a planning mechanism. Everyone is preoccupied with “When”. When will I do this thing and when will it be finished? But the only “when” is right now because you only...

I’ve never really been satisfied with the explanation of why so-called “keystone habits” have positive flow-on effects to other areas of our lives. Even Charles Duhigg, the author who made the notion of keystone habits so popular in his book “The Power of Habit”,...

Whether it’s Steve Jobs saying “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do” or Richard Branson telling us to “Surround [ourselves] with great people and delegate well”, people love the idea that business success is as simple as making good...

“Never give up!” they say… but we know that’s not true. So when should you give up? In this post I’ll tell you the story of how 4 years of trial and error resulted in the discovery of our current product architecture and why we start every engagement with a focus on...

Here is a list of all the shittiest email management advice I see repeated ALL the time, why the advice is shitty and my improved version. One caveat to all the following advice is that you should use Gmail. It’s far and away the best option for both personal and...

I can’t listen to any more interviews!! I have POST INTERVIEW STRESS DISORDER. Since Andrew Warner’s Mixergy.com has been so successful, many people have created their own business interview shows using a very similar format … … they’re all 1 hour long … … they’re all...

Checklists are very important tools for controlling quality and reducing human error in highly manual processes. They are especially handy when managing lots of processes across different team members. There are loads of software options out there aimed at helping you...