Personal Notes from Digitalia.

The simplest Raspberry Pi backup — once you know how. A quick walkthrough of rpi-clone for 1:1 USB stick clones.

A family trip to Coonabarabran and Warrumbungle National Park — small-town decline, family history, and Australia's only Dark Sky Park.

I cut my LinkedIn connections by 50 percent. Because LinkedIn works better as a relationship management tool than a personal branding megaphone.

Why I started a /now page and pulled my personal life back from social media to my own website.

Setting up SSH keys for Git in the terminal — easy once you know the trick.

How to ditch the unreliable SD card and boot your Raspberry Pi 4 directly from USB, with an optional upgrade to 64-bit Raspberry OS.

A collection of Markdown formatting tricks I keep forgetting and have to look up every time.

A winter afternoon on the cliffs south of Caves Beach — eucalyptus, container ships, a washed-up shark, and migrating whales.

Five Newcastle startups pitched to Sydney investors at EY. Bees, caravans, and retired coal plants — proof that Newcastle's startup scene is the real deal.

Oren Klaff's Flip the Script changed how I think about pitching. Instead of selling hard, you make the other person feel like the idea was theirs all along.

I stopped checking LinkedIn for two months during lockdown. The silence was revealing — mostly because nobody noticed.

LinkedIn articles outlast posts by months and sit permanently in your profile. If you have real expertise, that matters more than you think.

I took the train from Newcastle to Sydney to have lunch with a stranger. Turns out offline still beats online by a country mile.

A proof of concept for turning voice recordings into text, audio, and video — all from one walk.

What happens when you combine a long walk in the Bavarian Alps with a voice recorder and 12,000 words worth of opinions about LinkedIn.

It is easy to “start with why”: You sit down, walk, brainstorm or meditate, and eventually you will come up with a lofty “why statement”, which will be your favourite mantra …