Say cheap: parents turning to AI for school photos

09/10/2026Business, Technology, TrendsBradley

AI will spawn new business models in ways we least expect, or can’t currently fathom.

With the Internet, no one had thought of betting exchanges or social media.

With mobile phones, no one had thought of the sharing or gig economy such as Uber or Airbnb.

There are also unforseen consequences such as your local book shop vs Amazon or Blockbuster vs Netflix.

Now that we have entered the age of AI, we’ll see several new economies bloom and some suffer.

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Someone just vibe coded every Adobe app

08/10/2026Technology, TrendsBradley

Clearly not perfect. Yet.

52 Frames Week 41: Curves

08/10/2026Outside InterestsBradley

This is my entry for Week 41: Curves! on 52Frames, the weekly photography challenge website.

The City of London, the financial square mile where I work, is a relentless sea of square glass boxes, so hunting down curves felt like a proper nightmare.

I brought my camera to the office and gave myself a strict 90-minute dash after work yesterday to pull something off before the light died. These flats on Old Street roundabout saved the day. I almost positioned the shot to avoid the streetlight out of habit, but left it in to go for the Chiaroscuro bonus instead.

Taking this handheld in near sunset was a gamble, but the extreme shadows made it click.

What Happens When You Delete Every Rule in Your Company?

08/10/2026Book review, BusinessBradley

I’m reading far fewer business books recently. You can blame Stephen King, Cixin Liu, and Lee Child. However, when I went to the Gartner Symposium in London last year, Erin Meyer gave a keynote, and during her talk I bought her book about Netflix, “No Rules Rules”.

Erin is an amazing speaker, one of the very best I’ve had the privilege to listen to live. She started by asking the audience which company has the values “Integrity, Communication, Respect and Excellence”. She showed a photo of the Enron lobby with those values and then advanced to her next slide: the exact same core values at Netflix.

Erin and the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, co-wrote No Rules Rules about how Netflix operates with very few rules. The most famous one is unlimited holiday time. Only a small number of Netflix employees have strict rules, such as staff in compliance or mission-critical and sensitive roles.

Some “no rules” even require guidelines to ensure they stay that way. Unlimited holiday time requires managers to actually take holidays so everyone else doesn’t get terrified to take time off.

That doesn’t mean it’s completely open season. There are harsh consequences for [mildly] underperforming staff. They get fired quickly. But focusing on the negative misses the point. Other policies include paying salaries well above top-of-market rates, and allowing employees to spend any amount of Netflix money, whether on investments, projects, or expenses, as long as it’s in Netflix’s best interests.

The book is super easy to read. I can’t think of many CEOs who would read it and adopt more than one or two of these concepts. Unlimited holiday time has been adopted by other companies. For example, my employer Endava offers this in some countries. It would take a small company in a highly profitable area to adopt all the no rules.

What I really liked about the book is how Reed started a previous company and found standard rules, the ones almost every company has by default, drove the wrong behaviour. They slowed work down and removed innovation. So when Reed started Netflix, he rethought every behaviour from the ground up, including expenses, holidays, and investments.

Slower cycling

06/10/2026Outside InterestsBradley

When you’re cycling and favour traffic-freeness rather than speed: cycle.travel

Top selling cars in September 2026

06/10/2026Technology, TrendsBradley

As of September 2026, diesel is at an all-time high price in the UK according to the RAC yet there were 11.5% more diesel cars registered in September than the previous year.