Protected: Reading Between the Lines of War and Geopolitics

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Advancing Human Connections Through the Spoken and Written Word

I have worked in advertising all my life, as a writer. It is a business that requires creativity, good communication skills, as also an understanding of business. Most of all, it is a service business and a people-based one. If you can’t express yourself clearly and effectively, you’re in trouble. While I have been writing… Continue reading Advancing Human Connections Through the Spoken and Written Word

Protected: Reading Through This Summer’s Flux

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Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch

It must certainly be an eternity since I read a novel from the 19th century. My aged father had ordered a copy of Middlemarch by George Eliot from Amazon more than a year ago and I thought I must read it. I have already shared some of my observations about the book on social media,… Continue reading Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch

Take That, AI!

As a postscript to my last blog post which was on how generative AI is here to threaten writers - at least in the advertising and brand communications industry - I thought I’d write a short piece in favour of human intelligence. From what tech evangelists have always told us, information technology is here to… Continue reading Take That, AI!

Protected: Reading for An Uneventful Summer

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Writing Under the Sword of ChatGPT

Suddenly about two months ago, social media, including LinkedIn was full of posts about the promise and potential of ChatGPT, the generative AI platform from OpenAI. Most of the excitement stemmed from the fact that Microsoft was in talks to acquire OpenAI, the tech company behind ChatGPT, for an undisclosed sum. It is reported that… Continue reading Writing Under the Sword of ChatGPT

Protected: Staying Human in the World of AI

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Colour-conscious, Are We?

I have observed many new conscious biases and prejudices in the world of work for so many years now, that I wonder if this is just a trend or something more enduring. If it’s the latter, we ought to have reasons to be seriously concerned. It is recent, irrational and to that extent speaks of… Continue reading Colour-conscious, Are We?

Protected: Spring-Reading for Clarity

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