AllyBurns
I wrote Turn Down the Tap, a decluttering book for people who like their stuff. I co-founded Learn to Love Digital, a digital agency and innovation lab in Edinburgh. The rest of the bench is bikes, a flat that mostly runs itself, a YouTube channel about the unexplained, a curiosity about where AI is taking us, and a loft I am no longer allowed to trust.
The book
Item 0001 / Shelf A
Turn Down the Tap
A no-shame decluttering book for people who like their stuff. Most tidying advice assumes you want to own less. This one assumes you want to keep the record collection and still be able to find the kitchen table. It starts with the tap rather than the mop: slow down what comes in, and the rest gets easier.
Musings
Item 0005 / The boardOccasional musings.
I don't post often, but every now and then you'll find some musings here. Short pieces, mostly about building things, keeping things, and the overlap.
- No. 29
If this is as good as it gets
Whether the latest AI leaves you amazed or unimpressed, what we already have is enough to change most people's lives. Most people haven't opened the box yet.
- No. 28
Everyone's a director now
An art director said having AI is like having an amazing team, on all the time, and another reply said all the fun had gone from development. On the game I built without opening its code, and why the code was never the joy.
- No. 27
Execution is the moat
A comment under a how-to video said execution is the moat, and I thought it had things backwards. On who a tutorial pays, how few of its viewers ever follow through, and why that turns out to be the whole point.
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