Rob Dix

Everything

2026 8

19 Jul How I use AI to make boring work less boring
19 Jul Codex got our website performance score to 100 while I was at the gym
13 Jun Why I spend ten minutes a day memorising random facts
13 Jun How will anyone find us when all info routes through AI?
8 Jun Why I like moving house
7 Jun The best AI work is boring admin
7 Jun The joy of culling
27 Jan My set-and-forget contrarian portfolio (and why I built it)

2025 2

22 Nov How to succeed at anything, even if you have no talent
22 Jun How I used AI to choose the perfect egg

2023 6

29 Oct Two reasons to be careful who you give your money to
29 Sept Overcoming lifestyle inflation: Why the “10% Rule” isn’t enough
6 Sept The “everything stagnation” is coming
21 Jul Compound interest is over-rated
10 Jun A better alternative to Inheritance Tax
10 Jun Money Market Funds explained

2022 2

20 Feb The case for property investment in 3 sentences
16 Jan Begin Again

2021 21

24 Oct How Quantitative Easing has increased inequality
25 Aug Stronger, smarter, richer
18 Jun The perfect portfolio: How to balance the 3 motivations of investing
3 May Bonds: All risk, no reward
25 Apr The power (and danger) of questioning the defaults
19 Apr In praise of the lightweight life
12 Apr Are Premium Bonds worth investing in?
5 Apr The importance of the right goal (Or: My excuse for never having a best seller)
30 Mar In praise of procrastination
22 Mar The four-second meditation practice
15 Mar My 10 rules for life
8 Mar How money is created
1 Mar Notes: High Output Management by Andy Grove
22 Feb What to do when everyone tells you you’re wrong
15 Feb A beginner’s guide to Bitcoin security
8 Feb My email workflow that productivity experts would hate
1 Feb Quantitative Easing: The big development no-one’s talking about
25 Jan What really happens if you miss the best days in the market?
18 Jan The art of taking on “just enough”
11 Jan How I hire quality freelancers on Upwork, every time
4 Jan How I think about taxes

2020 53

28 Dec My year of writing (almost) every day
21 Dec The year you want to have
14 Dec How the property cycle ends
7 Dec Why I run a business instead of “just” being a writer
30 Nov You’re an egomaniac, I’m an egomaniac
23 Nov Write your “life manual” and win the respect of your future self
16 Nov The best thing to invest in
9 Nov The 100 hour rule
2 Nov Our inevitable deflationary future
26 Oct How to have a successful business partnership
19 Oct Habit-formation for lazy people
12 Oct Strong routines, changed often
5 Oct An easy way to keep your online accounts totally safe (how to set it up)
27 Sept Why you can ignore 95% of what you hear about investing
21 Sept The chemistry of motivation
14 Sept Book notes: “Communicating With Kids” by Stephanie Davies-Arai
7 Sept How being a jack of all trades can make you master of all
31 Aug A piece of universal productivity advice that doesn’t work (for me)
24 Aug How to eliminate complaining from your life
17 Aug Yes, you should try to time the market
10 Aug How I use Trello to stay effortlessly organised
3 Aug Clearing out life’s junk
27 Jul Why I take a photo every single day
13 Jul 3 power moves to improve your life satisfaction
6 Jul Why renting a home is better than owning it
29 Jun You don’t deserve to be financially free
29 Jun Book notes: “Am I Being Too Subtle?” by Sam Zell
22 Jun Pay yourself first
15 Jun Why I’ve only taken cold showers for five years
8 Jun How to be right about almost everything, almost all the time
1 Jun Summary: How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World by Harry Browne
25 May My life as a part-time vegan: The case for making big changes slowly
18 May My 10 financial principles
11 May Personal Leverage: A method for squeezing maximum results from your working hours
4 May Is it better to take small steps or big leaps?
27 Apr Summary: The Star Principle by Richard Koch
20 Apr Why you’re always wrong
14 Apr A new type of personal budget: The “no budget” budget
6 Apr Buying and selling property is painful. This is a good thing.
31 Mar You’re wrong about your risk tolerance
25 Mar What are you optimising for?
15 Mar Observations after two months working abroad
9 Mar Holding “too much” cash can be a good thing
5 Mar We like what we do
27 Feb When “looking after the pennies” goes too far
17 Feb The “Top 3” principle
11 Feb Usenet: A practical, totally non-technical guide for beginners
3 Feb 3 observations from 2 years of parenthood
28 Jan Project people and Perpetual people
24 Jan Investing, Saving, Earning
14 Jan 3 models for “home” in location independence
14 Jan The most common barriers to location independence (and how to overcome them)
8 Jan How to be successful

2019 16

30 Dec Email peeves
28 Aug Strategic laziness: Part 1
16 Aug Un-learning
20 Jul Book notes: The Ultimate Blueprint For An Insanely Successful Business by Keith Cunningham
29 Jun Location independence: 8 years of living everywhere and nowhere, month-by-month
19 Jun Mental limits, physical limits (Or: How I increased my maximum number of pushups by 33% overnight)
28 May How I triumphed over the snooze button, and took control of my mornings
21 May No need to reply…
21 May Selective ignorance
22 Apr Sometimes, you want to buy a feeling
22 Apr What “early retirement” blogs aren’t telling you
22 Apr Why you should make inflation your sworn enemy
15 Apr How to sign up for an Amazon advertising account in the UK
14 Apr All businesses are screwed up
14 Apr Don’t make it part of your identity
14 Apr What matters when starting a new podcast?