mental notes

It’s been one big weekend, ill on Friday, stag do on saturday and then a picnic in the park on sunday. In between all that I ended up in Waterstones even though I am not supposed to be buying any more books at present. I have at least 6 waiting for me in a pile at home! On top of all that, having ready plenty of books involving the Roman Empire, whether historical or fictional, I had attempted to stop myself reading anymore and make myself diversify to other geographies and histories (which I have been doing with reasonable success 🙂 ) Anyhow, the first book that caught my attention? Romanitis – a book about the Roman Empire as if it had made it through to the present day. The optimist in me made it sound interestinh – it could go either way with that starting point – complete arbritary tripe or as I say.. interesting. The title of course is rather poor I think, though I cannot think of a better one, and maybe that is why I did not succumb to the urge to buy it 🙂

Onto the main reason for this post – whilst I was in Waterstones, I thought that a really good usage for my blog would be to leave off the cuff comments and thoughts to myself – so I was thinking I need to look up Romanitis when I get back in front of a computer, but of course I always forget all the various qs surrounding the initial thought itself. With a decent network and phone that is easily achievable in this day and age – except I happen to be on 3, the 3rd generation mobile network here in the UK which is decidedly backwards. You only have access to their walled garden, no external access at all and get this – they give you a three branded email address which you can use and then charge you a price per message read and sent. Why can they just not use the data usage pricing model that everyone else uses? Is it that difficult?

Riaz Kanani

Founder of Radiate B2B, which helps companies target advertising at specific companies usually as part of an account based marketing programme.

I have spent almost two decades building startups or expanding fast growth companies in a variety of functions - from tech to operations to marketing, with a little corp dev on the side.

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