G’day, and welcome!

I am Marcus Verrall, a curious technologist at heart and a pragmatic leader by trade. Building things is what excites me the most. I read. I write. I’ve occasionally been accused of being a rational optimist.

MV.com is a primarily a 'commonplace' book, somewhere for me to store quotes and clips from the books I read or audio files I listen to. I have been doing this for years on little coloured note-cards, with interesting or compelling quotes written by hand after finishing reading a book, following the advice and process of Ryan Holiday, an author I admire. Not only does this take many hours, it has other drawbacks, like not being portable, searchable, associated with a taxonomy or easily referenced in my own writing. It was developed after I searched high and low for something that had already been built, but found nothing suitable. 

Some of my favorite pieces of wisdom will still make it to physical cards, which will continue to adorn my working spaces, but all of them will make it to MV.com.

As well as making content generally available, I'll be making some stuff accessible only to registered members, with commenting and other features enabled. If you would like to be part of this group, please apply for membership via the registration form.

Enjoy!