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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...
Remote working
The missing aspect of remote working. It sounds obvious, but the missing aspect of remote working is people. However, it is increasingly easy to have face-to-face remote conversations. Family and friends’ hook-ups through FaceTime, Skype and Google hangouts have...
10 years of creativity on the iPad
10 years of creativity on the iPad I still own and use my original Apple iPad from 2010. It now serves solely as a music player, but it still works. A testament to the build quality and adaptability of the tablet devices. Originally, the iPad was primarily designed as...
10 years of magazines on iPad
10 years of magazines on the iPad I was one of those lucky few that received an iPad ahead of the UK shipping date. I got to experience a new way of consuming content and interacting with a computer and I knew it was right for me. Professionally I had visions of...
Software dependency
This year I had a scare in that a critical piece of creative software that I use daily was suddenly not available. The non-pro version still functioned but the pro features that required a vendor server identification ceased. Thankfully, the software was purchased by a new company that offered a lifetime subscription to the pro version, but for me it highlighted a growing risk of software dependency.
Is Affinity Publisher the Adobe InDesign alternative?
Is Affinity Publisher the Adobe InDesign alternative? If you have worked with creative software for long enough you recognise the cycle of change. Those of us with our nose to the air sit up and pay attention like prairie dogs on their mounds. Something is coming,...
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