HOWARD
TAYLOR
I make Spark Pages for senior experts.
After 30 years working inside large organisations, the hardest part of leaving wasn't the money. It was the loss of identity and invisibility. I write honestly about post-corporate life: online visibility, slow travel abroad, and mindset on my Substack.
I'm Howard, from England. Currently slow-travelling somewhere between Thailand, Vietnam and Albania.
HERE'S HOW I GOT HERE.
I started with airbrush @ 18.
Drawing instruments, masks I cut by hand with a scalpel, paint sprayed in fine controlled layers. Dedicated to a craft. Working 60 hours a week. I thought it was a career.
Then computers killed it.
I blagged my way into computer contracts and ended up at the Open University. I built their first websites. HTML tables for layout, because CSS didn't exist yet. Then e-learning. Then corporate comms. Then video. Now AI.
EVERY CRAFT DIES.
Thirty years inside organisations.
I designed the websites, the e-learning, the videos, the presentations. Wrote internal comms for a 70k employee business. I got good at making the work polished. Long enough to cycle through five different crafts inside the same job.
Bosses loved it.
EMPLOYEES IGNORED IT.
Twenty years in, the work was beautiful. The employee data told a different story.
Craft alone wasn't moving people.
CLARITY ALONE WASN'T EITHER.
The video that shouldn't have worked.
In 2019 I brought my hobby into work. I'd been filming on a DSLR for years. At Otis we needed a CRM launch video, and I made one that broke every corporate convention. Strange storytelling, real employees on camera, human voice.
It landed harder than anything I'd made in twenty years. It allowed me to make over 70 corporate videos, as a one-man-band.
THE MISSING THING WAS SPARK.
Craft you can learn.
Clarity you can engineer.
Spark is the bit that makes someone stop, feel something, and care enough to do something about it.
AI is closing the gap on craft. Spark is what's left.
In a sea of sameness, dull disappears.
SPARK DOESN'T.
Are you looking for a single, high-impact web page that frames your expertise, so the right people choose you, and filters out the rest?
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A blog about relocation that surfaces a different life as a real option. Honest thoughts on slow travel, geo-arbitrage, and the inner shift required to actually make the move.
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A website and youtube channel on philosophy and mindfulness. Surfaces invisible beliefs you've been carrying for decades, the ones running your life without your permission.
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PERSONAL SITE
MADE WITHOUT A BRIEF
At 58 I left a forty-year career and the UK to find out what I could make from complete freedom. Personal website written abroad, on change, conditioning, and making things nobody asked for.
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