Lawrence Brown

Author: Lawrence Brown

  • Inventory House

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    Five years ago, when we moved into our Hackney house I collected a bunch of homeware retailers, furniture designers, suppliers and so on. They ended up in an Airtable, kinda useful. But not visually useful. Now, I’ve made a dedicated listing site for homeware. www.inventory.house I’d been kicking around the idea of Inventory Supplies for…

  • Notes: 2 of 13. 2024

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    This is the second block of week notes. Read the first one here. I’ve been consistent in taking notes daily/weekly and I’m still finding the process rewarding. Writing up these summaries of four week blocks I’m reminded of the Bill Gates quote: People overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they…

  • Hello, Gutenberg!

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    I’ve just been pulling, pushing, redirecting and querying. And I’m now live with WordPress Gutenberg on all my primary domains and sites. Until today this site and others were running a soupy mess of custom fields for publishing and laborious processes for design changes. Site transfers are the grotty and anxious work of websites. Good…

  • Notes: 1 of 13. 2024

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    I’m experimenting with writing private week notes. It’s been a rewarding practice for the last four weeks. Purging my mind when it’s overwhelmed, forming better memories of what happened over a week, what I’ve been thinking, what I consumed, who I hung out with and so on. The shift from only journalling to clear the…

  • Inventory Supplies

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    Continuing with my no-code experiments I moved onto tackling a self initiated project that has been getting dusty. Within a couple of days I recreated a “close enough” version of Inventory Supplies — a database of technical, functional and beautiful products. I’ve made this website three times now. Yeah. First it was a WordPress Advanced Custom…

  • No code

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    Last year at Phillips we created a new division of the business with the goal to sell art in the middle market. Limited editions of works that could be easily purchased without auction. There’s a pickle of systems in auction businesses and building an ecom platform from scratch or deeply integrating one would have delayed…

  • YouTube Diet

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    Over the years I’ve used January to take a break from social media. From memory it was Twitter that I took a rest from first. I’d felt irritated from constantly checking it. Finding myself reading through outbursts of venom, petty snipes, pithy points and taking a useless interest in anything that wondered its way into…

  • The Domain Riddle

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    Why keep an unused domain you bought for a side project? The annual renewal comes around, you haven’t touched it in over a year and £32 is due. In no particular order, here follows the riddle in my mind: a) Renew and go all in. This is the dreamer’s plan. Top tier effort and aspiration. Requires:…

  • A4 Paper

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    A4 paperWaterstones had a barCup of disappointmentTea pot £5The table with 95% hairAlton Towers/DisneylandThe bar ends there?Boy ScoutMustard bench nearly capsizedDJ tiny decks got refusedNose.comThe lesbians all look like each otherWas that a dog?The wettest cigiBoohoo.com and Action ManDJs mum filmed TikToksRednecksWhat’s that nice stone over there?Girl goes into a cemeteryJurassic ParkIt’s great but could…

  • Visualising Running

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    There’s been some bumps in the road during April, May and a bit of June. My exercise frequency went right down from where I was in the first few months of the year. Today, I’m on my 12th consecutive day of running. Last Friday, the fifth day, I started thinking about momentum. The visualisation that…