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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...

Launching

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...