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What women think about ‘Letters from Ceilia’

I’m told by women who have read it that Letters From Ceilia is the best book they ever read about a young woman’s business life and choices. Being both a man and the author, I take that as high praise. I claim that the best thing about reading fiction is that it allows you to live another persons life for a few hundred pages. On that basis, go ahead and live Ceilia’s life.

Visiting the Page

I got to thinking this morning what it means to me to be a writer and whether what it means for you is all that far different. Who are we writers? Why do we bother, when some 5,000 books a day are published and millions of blogs as well? The chances of being heard in...

Drive the Results or Be Empathetic

That's today’s lead question in the head office, and a lot depends on whether you’re a long-game or short-game company. I define short-gamers as those companies that are set up to be sold off for a quick profit. Nothing wrong with that, but it means squeezing...

ChatGPT and the future of writing

Yeah well, the news is full of robots taking over the world and will the next great novel be written by artificial intelligence. Seems to me the future is written into the name. Are we willing to settle for 'artificial' intelligence when what we actually want is the...

Office Lighting Isn’t Just an Amenity, It Can Be a Profit Killer

We’ve known for thirty years that fluorescent lighting in the office leads to headaches, loss of attention, and tiredness, but it remains an office standard. Now what other commonplace standard would you allow in your company that had so many negative aspects?...