2026
- Lift off : in all areas17 February 2026 · 1 min
Its been a minute. Lots been going on... Work, gym, family, self care, a cold, no sun. Its been a busy February. Lots of systems being built that are freeing up time…
- 👻 Talk to the Ghost. He gives even less fucks than I do.27 January 2026 · 3 min
How I built an automated bouncer for my energy brokerage 😇 The problem with being nice I’ve got a broker. Let’s call him Raj . Raj is productive; 77 contracts since October.…
2025
- New Year’s Eve Eve: The Day My Business Ran Itself (and I Did Nothing) 🥂🤖30 December 2025 · 4 min
It’s 30/12/2025; that weird limbo where nobody knows what day it is, suppliers are “back on 2nd”, and brokers suddenly discover urgency like it’s a new religion. So naturally, I spent my…
- Merry Christmas Arpbot23 December 2025 · 1 min
For the first time in about ten years, I’ve closed the business over Christmas without the usual background guilt. No “I’ll just keep an eye on WhatsApp”. No “ping me if it’s…
- Its beginning to look a lot like...... freedom.17 December 2025 · 2 min
So its 17th Dec. Ive got a day to myself in London. I plan to do walking - lots of it to get the heart rate into zone 2 and to have…
- Automation Built from the Squat Rack9 December 2025 · 3 min
A Short Story About Contracts, ADHD, ACL Rehab… and One Very Fed-Up ArpBot! There is a particular type of moment that only appears when life, business, marriage, and physical rehab collide. Mine…
- Two Nights, One System, and Three Nephews Who Accidentally Became Software Engineers5 December 2025 · 5 min
There is a particular kind of chaos that arrives in your life after an ACL rupture. You start rebuilding your leg… and then, apparently, your entire business infrastructure. Because... well why not.…
- How I Sent 763 WhatsApp Business Notifications in 5 months for £0.02 💬💸3 December 2025 · 3 min
Every business owner has that one moment where they realise: “Hang on… am I the idiot here for doing this manually?” For me, that moment involved WhatsApp, pricebook updates, a chatty broker…
- Automating Christmas and Birthday Bonuses 🎄🎂25 November 2025 · 3 min
Another Needless Ballache Removed Date: 19 November 2025 Coding Experience: 4 months Annual Time Saved: ~12 hours Cost: £0 Broker Morale: Allegedly improved The Gym Realisation 🏋️♂️ I was at the physio…
- Building a Knowledge Base Because I Got Tired of Repeating Myself 📚17 November 2025 · 2 min
Some people unwind by watching Netflix. I unwind by deleting avoidable admin from my life. And nothing drains the soul quite like answering the same question twenty times a week from people…
- My Weekend Off28 October 2025 · 2 min
October 26, 2025 I took the weekend just gone off. Actually off. No checking logs, no rehab tracking, no optimizing anything. The idleness felt weird as hell. What I've Been Doing June…
- Building the Broker Portal: From Zero to Automated14 October 2025 · 2 min
Below is my ramblings of what started effectively four months ago when I began learning about Python coding... This is October progress... The Journey from Manual Hell to Semi-Retirement Dreams When I…
- What a difference a week of sleep makes...1 October 2025 · 1 min
So updates Ive been sleeping 8hrs a night for the last week. Feeling a lot more recharged. I took a full week off the gym. Sleep catchup was priority. Returned back to…
- GHOST Notes — July16 July 2025 · 2 min
Update: I have in two months, part-time, built Dropbox integration, Zoho automation, and an EC2-based scheduling system and learning Python for fun mischevious projects.. But more than that, we’re building with intention…
- Digital Detox and a day for me...19 June 2025 · 1 min
So work has been hectic. Got the automation bug from a friend and have since been using chatgpt and python to automate my business workflows. Its been a game changer so far…