by Sean Briggs | Apr 12, 2023 | Sean's blog
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...
by Sean Briggs | Mar 28, 2023 | Sean's blog
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...
by Sean Briggs | Jan 31, 2023 | Sean's blog
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...
by Sean Briggs | Dec 14, 2022 | Sean's blog
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...
by Sean Briggs | Mar 19, 2018 | Sean's blog
Launching in a wintery climate. In the last three months I have been fortunate enough to work on the launch of a new weekly magazine and the refining of a monthly title. For me they have one thing in common and that is the workflow, after all that’s my area of...