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Calculating AI

In 1976, my mother bought me a personal calculator. It was the bog standard, no memory or logarithms. The fanciest thing it offered was the square root option. I had no idea what a square root was, but I could now calculate it. I loved my calculator and in a parallel...

The four day week

I negotiated a 4 day week soon after my first daughter was born. The extra day was a leap in faith from my employer and a major recalibration of my work life balance. Now, after living on a 4 day week schedule for 25 years, a major pilot confirms that a 4 day week is...

A.I. conflicts

For over thirty years, I have helped to bring technological innovation to creative teams, yet I have never felt as conflicted as I do now regarding the rapid deployment of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools. Social media is awash with tutorials on how to make a...

A.I. and editorial workflow.

The next assistant you take on will work twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. They won’t need lunch breaks, holidays or maternity/paternity leave. They will start smart and get increasingly clever as time goes by and they don’t need a...

Ambient sound at home

Here is a quick aid to setting the ambient sound in your work from home space. Just two websites and I fool my brain into thinking I’m sat in a busy coffee shop. Because of the foibles of public transport when travelling to clients workplaces I always give myself an...