Unfinished Business

Unfinished Business 141: One Footer Unfinished Troika: Music crossover Special

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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Unfinished Business 140: Orangutan covered in coconuts

05 Mar 2026

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Unfinished Business 139. Dave Letory:  I like red and I like hats

06 Feb 2026

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Unfinished Business 138: Would you like a glass of champagne?

13 Dec 2025

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In this episode of Unfinished Business, Andy and Rich talk about retainers and maintenance contracts, and Andy asks Richard’s advice on how to sell ...

Unfinished Business 137: Contracts and pitfalls

12 Nov 2025

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In this episode of Unfinished Business, Andy and Rich talk about contracts, how they use them, and some of the pitfalls they’ve both experienced.

Unfinished Business 136: Encourage people to think differently

06 Oct 2025

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In this episode of Unfinished Business, Andy talks about what he learned from running an online layout workshop and Rich describes his new, up-coming ...

Unfinished Business 135: Andy Bell. All the best bands are power-trios

21 Sep 2025

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This episode is brought to you by:ClearLeftStuff & Nonsense Episode NotesPiccalilli: https://piccalil.li--Sponsored by:Practical layout workshop for ...

Unfinished Business 134: Léonie Watson.   Bundles of enthusiasm

15 Aug 2025

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This episode is brought to you by:ClearLeftStuff & Nonsense Episode NotesLéonie Watson: https://tink.ukTetra Logical: https://tetralogical.comThere ...

Bonjour et bienvenue dans Unfinished Business

08 Aug 2025

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How I set up a fake web design company to test an idea---Sponsored by:Practical layout workshop for designers and creative teamsThis workshop is for d...

Aleks Melnikova:  Cosmic Velocity

12 Jul 2025

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Jon Harvey: Spinning plates and hamster wheeling

27 Jun 2025

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Accidental specialisms

17 Jun 2025

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Andy Clarke and Richard Rutter have Unfinished Business

01 Jun 2025

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Welcome to a brand spanking new Unfinished Business with Andy Clarke and Richard Rutter. In this first episode, Andy and Richard (re)introduce themsel...

Art Directing the Web with Rob Weychert

04 Jun 2018

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I’m your host, Andy Clarke, and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuf...

Art Directing the Web with Stephen Hay

21 May 2018

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I’m your host, Andy Clarke, and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuf...

Art Directing the Web with David Sleight

07 May 2018

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I’m your host, Andy Clarke, and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuf...

Art Directing the Web and CSS Grid with Rachel Andrew

23 Apr 2018

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I’m your host, Andy Clarke, and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuf...

Art Directing the Web with Dan Mall

09 Apr 2018

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I’m your host, Andy Clarke, and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuf...

Art Directing the Web with Mark Porter

26 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I’m your host, Andy Clarke, and I’m writing a Hardboiled Web Design book about Art Directing for the Web. You can find out more about that at stuf...

The new Doctor Who episode

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to this new season of the Unfinished Business podcast. Over the next few weeks and months, I’ll be discussing art directing for web with my ...

‘“I voted Remain,” said Pooh,’ with Rachel Andrew

28 Jun 2016

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I’m warning you now, it’s a very different kind of episode of Unfinished Business this week as Rachel Andrew and I talk about our feelings on the ...

‘Working on your dad bod’ with James Seymour-Lock

30 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In the second part of this Unfinished Business Bank Holiday double, I’m joined by owner of UX studio Simple As Milk and lead UX engineer at UnrollMe...

‘The Meta Is In Title Case’ with Espen Brunborg and Joe Leech

30 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In this, the first part of the Unfinished Business Bank Holiday double, I’m joined by Espen Brunborg, designer and co-founder of Primate, plus Strat...

‘A bit of Capability Brown’ with Sean Johnson and Drew McLellan

28 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

I know. I know! It’s been far too long since episode 117. But fret no more, Unfinished Business fans, we’re back and back for good, every two week...

‘Buttered someone to death’ with Mr Bingo

06 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The Unfinished Business schedule’s been a little, shall we say, up in the air, for the past few episodes. while I’ve been busy writing something. ...

‘A million Euros to Ireland’ with Rachel Andrew and Richard Rutter

09 Sep 2015

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On Unfinished Business this week there’s no talk about mugs but Rachel Andrew is back. We’re joined by first timer Richard Rutter to discuss his u...

‘Extreme tool anxiety’ with Brad Frost and Stephen Hay

24 Aug 2015

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This week on episode 115 of Unfinished Business, I’m joined by returning guests Brad Frost and Stephen Hay. After talking about the best coffee mug ...

‘Fair cop guv’’ with Dan Edwards and Daniel Mall

10 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A week later than planned (sorry,) on this week’s Unfinished Business, I’m joined by returning special guest, designer Dan Edwards. And because yo...

‘Dicking around with an algorithm’ with Cennydd Bowles and Noah Stokes

20 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve been looking forward to speaking with Cennydd Bowles for months and for Unfinished Business 113, Cennydd joins me and my other special guest, p...

‘Meaty Parts’ with House Of Fools’ Ellie White

01 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ellie and I talk about her Fringe and what it’s like to get a big break on a show like ‘House Of Fools.’ We discuss improv, stand-up performance...

‘I got no beef with the Turks’ with Brendan Dawes and Aaron Draplin

21 Jun 2015

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Apologies in advance if you’re German or a Turk, as this week on episode 111 of Unfinished Business, I’m joined by artist Brendan Dawes and design...

‘That pig was a good influence’ with Jeremy Keith and Jeffrey Zeldman

08 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Last week was Jeffrey Zeldman’s website’s 20th birthday, so this week he joins me and Jeremy Keith on Unfinished Business 110 to talk about the an...

‘Management advice from Don Draper’ with Jen Simmonds and Mad Men’s Allan Havey

27 May 2015

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This week is a special Mad Men episode of Unfinished Business and I’m joined live from New York by Jen Simmons–the incredible host of The Web Ahea...

‘I want Action, Man’ with Aarron Walter and Jared Spool

17 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I imagine if I told people in advance that I was talking to director of UX at MailChimp Aarron Walter and Founder of User Interface Engineering Jared...

‘Tom Hanks, what a let down’ with Andy Budd and Cameron Moll

11 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from our adventures at Smashing Conference in Santa Monica, on this week’s Unfinished Business I’m joined by user-experience professional, a...

‘Everyone else’s highlight reel’ with Dan Edwards and Veerle Pieters

20 Apr 2015

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On this week’s Unfinished Business, I’m joined by designers’ designer Dan Edwards and, one of my favourite people, designer Veerle Pieters. We s...

‘Seventeen coats of bullshit’ with Dan Mall and Jeffrey Zeldman

07 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

I‘ve been looking forward to publishing this episode of Unfinished Business for over a month and I looked forward to recording it for even longer, b...

‘The taco incident’ with Trent Walton and Stephen Hay

23 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

The best podcasts listen to interesting people having interesting conversations about work, and life and for episode 104 of Unfinished Business I’m ...

‘House of Fools’ with Paul Boag and Jon Hicks

09 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Back for episode 103 of Unfinished Business is my favourite comedy duo, ‘Pipe and Pyjamas,’ Paul Boag and Jon Hicks. We had a list of things that ...

‘The most rubbish superhero ever’ with Rachel Andrew and Zoe Mickley Gillenwater

02 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

A little later than advertised (and by “a little” I actually mean a week) I’m joined on Unfinished Business. Episode 102 by Rachel Andrew and Z...

‘Two old farts looking at their calendars’ with Harry Roberts and Jonathan Snook

07 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

We’re back. Back in business. Unfinished Business. Episode 101. For this, the first episode of 2015, I’m joined by two of the best well-known writ...

‘Jingle Bell Rock’ with Anna Debenham

21 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week is the one-hundredth episode of Unfinished Business and who better to join me than the person who helped me start it all, almost two years a...

‘A man’s gotta chew what a man’s gotta chew’ with Trent Walton

16 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

On the penultimate episode of Unfinished Business of 2014, I’m joined by my design hero Trent Walton to talk about if an integrated responsive desig...

‘Geoff, can I have my records back?’ with John Davey

08 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Conference impresario John Davey joins me again on Unfinished Business this week. We talk about anticipation and scarceness, how some cinemas create a...

‘Made in Scotland from girders’ with Ashley Baxter and Laura Kalbag

29 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a special week this week on Unfinished Business as I’m joined by not one, but two regular co-hosts, Ashley Baxter and Laura Kalbag. In a bump...

‘Ain’t no party like an S Club party’ with Brendan Dawes

23 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Artist and designer Brendan Dawes is back on Unfinished Business this week. We get started by talking about past popular pop princes and princesses S ...

‘Hysterically sticky children’ with Relly Annett-Baker

18 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A complete change of subject for this week’s Unfinished Business, Relly Annett-Baker and I talk about parenting and education and specifically how s...

‘Shall I fetch the memory worm?’ with Paul Boag and Jon Hicks

11 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, Paul Boag, Jon Hicks and I dispense with any pretence that this is a show about business and spend 90 minutes talkin...

Live from The Web Is… as part of Geek Mental Help

03 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

The week’s Unfinished Business was recorded live at The Web Is… conference in Cardiff, as part of Geek Mental Help week. I was joined on-stage by ...

‘You can blow off a kebab’ with Liz Elcoate

27 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week is Geek Mental Help week and on Unfinished Business I’m joined by Liz Elcoate, one of the people who helped to spark the idea. We ask if o...

‘A brioche and a frothy coffee’ with Benjamin Hollway

20 Oct 2014

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Brighton-based developer Benjamin Hollway loves a burger in a brioche bun and joins me on Unfinished Business this week to talk about how young people...

‘Makes Transformers look like Citizen Kane’ with Brendan Dawes

12 Oct 2014

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Designer and artist Brendan Dawes is back on episode 90 of Unfinished Business this week to talk about his recent commission by Mailchimp, Six Monkeys...

‘Burger in a donut’ with Laura Kalbag

05 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s an emotional episode of Unfinished Business. After talking about why a burger in a donut should never, ever have become a thing, Laura K...

‘A cage full of hungry dogs‘ with Harry Roberts

29 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, Harry Roberts and I have some pretty big, Boag-shaped, boots to fill after last week’s episode. Harry takes the op...

‘I thought you were Kid Jensen’ with Paul Boag

21 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, I had planned to talk with Paul Boag about client briefs and managing expectations. But when we sat down to talk, we...

‘Night of the long shadows’ with Jory Raphael

14 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

In the second part of our icon designer double bill, this week on Unfinished Business, I’m joined by designer, illustrator the and iconographer behi...

‘An energy drink for Time Lords’ with Jon Hicks

08 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Icon designer Jon Hicks joins me this week on Unfinished Business to discuss our experiences of recent conferences including dConstruct (me) and An Ev...

‘Basketball with jetpacks,’ with Cole Henley

01 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, I’m joined by Cole Henley, technical director at Mud. We discuss his latest Freelance rates survey, how the result...

‘Slightly sticky bottoms’ with Laura Kalbag

26 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Laura Kalbag and Ashley Baxter did a wonderful job hosting Unfinished Business for the last three weeks and this week Laura hands it back to me. We ta...

Love a good pep talk

17 Aug 2014

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Ashley Baxter and Laura Kalbag are back for their final takeover episode of Unfinished Business. We talk about using social media for your business an...

Do you have a dinosaur onesie?

10 Aug 2014

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Ashley Baxter and Laura Kalbag are back again for this week’s episode of Unfinished Business. We talk about the common myths around working for your...

I wonder why he trusts us?

03 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

While Andy’s on holiday, Ashley Baxter and Laura Kalbag take over this week’s episode of Unfinished Business. We talk about all things business in...

Unfinished Business special: Rumpus On The Planet Of The Apes with Brendan Dawes and Jeremy Keith

23 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Before we go any further, I need to let people know that there is absolutely zero business content in the show this week. (Thousands of people are thi...

Beirut by Bus

20 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve been looking forward to speaking with Sara Soueidan on this week’s episode of Unfinished Business for a long while, not least because I’m a...

Dirty, filthy, paid ads

14 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley Baxter’s back on Unfinished Business this week. We talk about the reasons why she’s speaking in public more and how it may help her to prom...

Two old farts Googling

05 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, impresario, organiser of Flash On The Beach and more recently Reasons To Be Creative, John Davey offers me some fath...

Bourne, but your Dad

29 Jun 2014

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Designer and artist Brendan Dawes joins me again for the 75th episode of my “one-sided, biased, poor quality personal soapbox.” We talk about the ...

Cheating at cross country

22 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, Sean Johnson and I talk not only about Laura Nevo’s “Dear Visual Design” open letter but also how wrong the pe...

We’ve reached peak burrito

15 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Keith joins me on this, episode 73 of Unfinished Business. Although I try to steer clean of provoking him by not talking about moon landings, w...

Big Bad Boy Breakfast Bap

09 Jun 2014

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A slight change of format for this week’s Unfinished Business. Laura Kalbag wanted to know our experiences of working with our partners—she’s ju...

President Cheese

31 May 2014

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Ashley Baxter is back on Unfinished Business this week and we start the show by talking about why she started a podcast with some other fella. We disc...

Cycling is just sitting down

25 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Illustrator Josh Cleland joins me for episode 70 of Unfinished Business this week. We discuss about how I’m struggling with an idea for the next ver...

King Arthur didn’t like machines

17 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

On Unfinished Business this week, I’m joined by designer and artist, the one and only Brendan Dawes. Bren and I talk about data inspired art and his...

Rubbish at podcasting

11 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

On Unfinished Business this week, and with us both fresh from the Net Awards, Laura Kalbag and I talk about our experiences there. I explain why I don...

The Great Train Robbers got less

02 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s (early) episode of Unfinished Business, Ashley Baxter’s back to talk about her brand new business, Insurance By Jack. We talk about...

Replaced by a fibreglass rhino

27 Apr 2014

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Dan Davies is back on Unfinished Business this week to talk about what he’s learned in the five months since he switched from front-end development ...

This swimmer is reversing

20 Apr 2014

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This week on Unfinished Business I’m joined again by Elliott Kember to talk about Speedos, fitness tackers and—one day before Nike announced they’...

A great big dollop of hindsight

13 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Unfinished Business I’m joined by not one, but two guests to keep me out of trouble, Laura Kalbag and marathon runner Rachel Andrew...

From those wonderful folks who gave you Pearl Harbor

05 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Special guest Jeffrey Zeldman joins me on Unfinished Business this week to talk about how important is it today for designers to be able to tell stori...

Scotland went mad for donuts

31 Mar 2014

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New regular Ashley Baxter joins me on this week’s packed Unfinished Business to talk about eating well and staying fit, my goal to lose 14lbs and wh...

Adonis kebab

23 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Unfinished Business, Laura Kalbag and I talk about the business of speaking at conferences, why it’s essential to be paid to speak ...

Where’s the Strepsils? I need to hallucinate

16 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Illustrator Josh Cleland is back for this, the sixtieth episode of Unfinished Business. We talk about Milton Keynes Geek Night, losing my voice and wh...

Use it to call your doggy friends

09 Mar 2014

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Despite possibly the worst Skype connection in history, I chatted with Ashley Baxter on Unfinished Business this week about her semi-professional phot...

Cowabunga!

23 Feb 2014

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Laura Kalback, Kalbang, Kalbung, Cowabunga! Kalbag is back on Unfinished Business this week and we talk about her troubles at her bank and how changin...

Michael Parkinson on the adverts

17 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, Elliott Kember and I talk about how Director Lottie Dexter introduced the Year Of Code initiative and most important...

A hair stylist’s 4x4

09 Feb 2014

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This week, Josh Cleland is back on Unfinished Business. We talk about updates on our various piracy issues and whether it’s necessary to add copyrig...

The elephant in the room

02 Feb 2014

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This week on ‘Net Awards Podcast Of The Year’ nominated Unfinished Business, Liz Elcoate, from some other podcast, joins me to talk about why it’...

Stalinist bus station

26 Jan 2014

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Laura Kalbag is back on Unfinished Business this week to talk about how far in advance we book client projects and what we you do if a client wants mo...

A bedroom and no social life

19 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a good one this week. I’m joined again by Elliott Kember to talk about whether being acquired is just a poncy way of saying that you’re tak...

Famous for falling off things

12 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, I’m in a relaxed mood as I’m joined by Josh Cleland to talk about how we filter enquires from potential clients ...

One big knob

05 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

For the first Unfinished Business of 2014 I’m joined by my really good friend Dan Davies to talk about film marathons, what we’d hoard for the apo...

Trapped in a jar

22 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

For this, the fiftieth episode of Unfinished Business, I’m joined by regular guest Laura Kalbag. We talk about ethical statements and whether we, an...

Ups and downs, downs and ups

16 Dec 2013

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The wonderfully generous Sean Johnson joins me twice on Unfinished Business this week to first answer a listener’s question about competitive paymen...

Enjoy those potatoes!

09 Dec 2013

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Illustrator Josh Cleland is back on Unfinished Business this week to talk about his work on the new Stuff and Nonsense go, go, go, rillas header, the ...

A mobile phone is not a Tardis

01 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, I’m joined by Elliott Kember. We talk about listening to feedback and the differences between client feedback on d...

Let zygones be bygones. A Doctor Who 50th anniversary special

24 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s extra length special episode of Unfinished Business, Jon Hicks and I talk exclusively about Doctor Who, so there isn’t a single pie...

The sharpest knife in the drawer

18 Nov 2013

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This week on Unfinished Business, I’m joined by James Young to talk about his recent, first conference presensations and why confidence in front of ...

Love me like a reptile

11 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Unfinished Business, regular co-host Laura Kalbag and I talked candidly about hosting workshops and whether they make commercial sens...

Hanging out at truck stops

04 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Unfinished Business, I’m joined by CSS hero Harry Roberts to talk about being typecast (literally,) going Keynote commando and Harry’...

My favourite Belgians

28 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

This week, I’m joined by fabulous designer Veerle Pieters to talk about whether cycling or eating toasties is the best exercise, when working on ret...