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The pace of change is fast, & businesses that we rely on to deliver games are either changing or going bust. That comes with a potentially HUGE time overhead. Recently a forgivable mistake by a partner, in a time when things are changing so rapidly, has cost me dozens and dozens of hours of work.

Because of changes with tariffs and import duties are happening at a very fast pace, simple paperwork errors, or a failure to double check stuff can cause huge ripples. I’m not mad about it. I get exactly how these things happen and I also make loads of mistakes as a human being.

It really beggars belief how long it’s taken for UK traders to get their head around Brexit. Once you left, everything became a cross-border transaction. FWIW most small exporters here make their declarations via a broker or fast freight company who do thousands of these transactions every day

But the trick is being able to communicate these really long chains of dominoes in a way that doesn’t make us or our partners look incompetent, or just bores the heck out of customers who just don’t need that level of detail. I had someone recently ask “why don’t you just post the book?”

I am currently trying to gear up for a new product range launch in the new year, and I stumbled across the planning I did ten years ago for one of my first "real" products. Oh sweet smol CJ, you'd just learned to use a laser cutter, and you figured you could just post things. Fuck you smol CJ.