As someone who makes a living in the SEO industry, you might think it’s nonsensical for me to create a blog which does not abide by that golden law of the interwebs that a site must be specific to the point of niche. My answer to that faux pas, my new-found friend, is the point of this site is not necessarily to rank highly on Google or any other search engine for that matter. No, I get enough of that in my day job. This is play time. If I get lots of hits, then great. I’ll do a little celebratory dance. But that’s not the point of this blog.

So what is the point? I’m hoping that this will become a venue for me to share my thoughts (at length whenever possible, in brief when not) and to also share some of the cool stuff done by other people that I have stumbled across on my travels.

Because I too need structured and fucking discipline (yes, that was an American Beauty reference), I’m starting out with a sort-of vision in mind for how this site will actually function and a promise to myself that I will try to post something – anything – on a daily basis for the next 30 days. Gulp. Structurally-wise, contrary to Fox Mulder’s musings, I think that everything here should be programmed, categorized and easily referenced. After some deliberation, I have decided that all posts on this board will be classified in one of the following topics: Entrepreneurship, Creativity, or Pleasures.

Entrepreneurship is something I have become increasingly interested in over the past nine (?) or so months. Without revealing too much publicly right now, let’s just say a big part of that is down to Tim Ferriss’ book 4 Hour Workweek. Previous to that is the fact that I have worked a side-gig as a freelance writer for a number of years, writing mostly about the lives of small business owners. This category will probably include links to a lot of things related to this subject that I find interesting as well as occasionally my own ideas to an extent.

Creativity in my little corner of the internet is going to refer to anything created by yours truly. Over the years I have dabbled in screenwriting, prose, drawing, painting and photography. Mostly, these hobbies are something which I’ve neglected. My interest in screenwriting (and writing in general) is something I’d been most involved with until recently, but over the past year that’s more or less dropped off my radar entirely as well. I really want to get better at doing more creative stuff. Expect the odd (and random) short story in here starting off – hopefully the content (and medium) will increase over time.

Pleasures is probably the category I’ve had the most difficult time thinking of a clever name for. This is where I anticipate talking about things which I am interested in; stuff like books written by other people, films, comic books, a song I just learned existed but the rest of the world has known about forever, etc. I guess I’m leaving the door open for pretty much anything to go in there that’s doesn’t belong in either of the other categories, so you’re welcome to think of it as a virtual sort of Pandora’s box – but in a good way.

Although it might be difficult to avoid doing so in the Entrepreneurial topics, I am going to try to stay away from “political” issues as much as possible. As a liberal Welshman residing in Texas, I’ve found that’s generally the best tactic. That’s not to say the subject is completely off the table as politics by its very nature is something which affects everything. My solution is to avoid Politics with a capital P entirely, allowing me to focus more on viewing the world from more of a moral or ideological stance. I’m sure that’ll become apparent as we go along.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read this message. Hopefully you found it several months after it was written, buried beneath a great many other posts… Fingers crossed! Comments are always welcome, yada yada yada… Seriously though, I hope you enjoy consuming whatever it is you find here.

As a sign off on this historic first post I think I’ll answer a question which has been knocking around in my skull for a while for who knows what reason: If you could have a dinner party with five famous people from history, who would you choose and why? Obviously, this is a question to which the answer would be different whenever you asked it. My reason for answering is to give you a time capsule view into my mind at this particular moment in time, knowing my current influences, interests and so forth. So here we go: Richard Branson, Ernest Hemingway, Marina Diamandis, and James Cameron. Not sure who’d be fifth right now…