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.
- Oct 2026
I haven’t had a free thought in two years
Something I overheard in a university library, and what it shares with workslop: the document was never the work, the thinking around it was.
- Oct 2026
Faking intelligence
My house isn’t clever, it just looks it. Part one of rebuilding my Home Assistant from scratch with Claude, where the AI writes the rules and then gets out of the way.
- Oct 2026
A clan with no chief
How a domain I bought because my name is Burns finally became clanburns.scot: a small, honest site about the name rather than the poet.
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