When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.

Join up dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

This is your blueprint for greatness so here's your host live from the back of

his garden in the UK, David Ralph.

Yes, hello there everybody.

Hello world, wherever you're listening, whatever you're doing,

whoever you're doing, whatever you're doing whatever it's happening in your life

thank you for coming to join up dots this is episode at 229 and it's one of those special

ones when you've got two David's clash.

Doesn't happen very often, but the guest today is,

he's probably better looking than me actually,

and he's younger as well.

But other than that, he's a man that I've been wanting to have on a show for a long time because he looks like he's having a great time earning an income,

building a business and helping startups across the globe to become successful. And he really seems to be playing to his

authentic self which he really is when things start coming together a rate of not

too. As he says on his blog I am the author of the number 18 Amazon best-selling book,

Design for Hackers Reverse Engineering Beauty.

And prior to writing design for hackers, I founded the design departments at two Silicon Valley

startups and freelance for clients such as Odesc, P beworks and user voice.

I also launched numerous other projects on my own, none of which failed hard enough to be worthy of a mention. But although an amusingly

self-depreciating summary of his adult working life, he has found the success that so many

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