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Three ways to reduce the noisy office productivity tax
Open-plan offices are full of noise and other distractions. The fact that this affects introverts and extroverts differently is often overlooked.
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Phil Martin
Digital declutter: Organise for action
The PARA method is a simple, yet powerful, process to organise all types of data on digital platforms. It enables us to effectively turn ideas into…
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How to stop corporate logic killing creativity
Creatives can fight back against the accepted wisdom that all insight comes from data analysis.
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Phil Martin
Nine life lessons from comedian Tim Minchin
Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
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Phil Martin

June 2025

Three effective negotiation tactics
We don’t get what we deserve. We get what we negotiate.
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Phil Martin
Ten principles of good design
Universal design via rules developed by Dieter Rams.
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Six writing rules George Orwell taught me
Clear prose doesn’t just reflect clear thought - it forces it
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How to build an AI startup in 3 hours
The people who build fast will win. AI makes the cost of iteration almost zero.
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Phil Martin
Ten tips to write prompts that make chatbots shine
I asked chatbot Grok: If you were human, trying to get the best output from ChatGPT and other chatbots, how would you want to be guided to create…
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Phil Martin

May 2025

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