Practical tech advice — tools, automation, and staying safe online.
The technology decisions that take up a business owner's week are rarely the interesting ones. Who to hire and how to check they are any good. Which tool is worth paying for and which is a subscription you will forget to cancel. What to do about the email that looks almost right. None of it is glamorous and all of it costs money when it goes wrong.
These are the articles about that part — practical, specific, and written on the assumption that you have a business to run and no interest in becoming a technologist. Where there is a checklist, it is the one we would use ourselves; where there is a warning, it is because we have watched it happen.
The one we point people to most often is how to hire an offshore development team without getting burned — which is an odd thing for an offshore team to publish, and exactly why it is worth reading.
Most resumes written by ChatGPT are filtered out before a person reads them, because of the formatting rather than the writing. Here is a prompt that avoids that, and what to gather before you run it.
Hiring a developer or agency in another country can save real money and still get you great work — or it can go badly wrong. Here's what to check before you pay a deposit.
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