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proposals

A collection of 113 issues

Tempted To Delve Into AI Prop Writing?

Over the Summer marking season, I noted a Uni philosophy lecturer had found a pattern in too many of the papers he was judging. Exeter's Dr Edward Skidelsky had found one give-away word; delve. In general such output, "is typical of the purple but empty prose that ChatGPT produces", he

Artist 30-Word Declaration Against AI Theft

“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” AI is robbing creators. This week, over ten thousand and counting of their number took a stand to arrest the theft.

Bankster Slidedeck Reality

There's a third season of Industry out. A TV drama-cum-exposé of merchant bank traders. Despite the littering of finance jargon, favourable reviews flow. What I enjoyed about the PR prior the latest series, were the pieces that seek to judge the veracity of the show. Is real-life corporate gambling banking

Mapping in Circles

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map. pic.twitter.com/WMd8fkdphY — Tube Map Central (@TubeMapCentral) August 6, 2024 At inception an all-time classic in diagrammatic

Single Scale Continuum

We can on occasion conjure a fiendishly evocative 2x2 of the 4-box model school to summon up a unique slant on a prospect situation which helps them then frame their options chiefly in our terms. Indeed, such tool is often a bedrock of solution selling. Such as adapting the traditional

5 Lessons For Your Next Proposal Layout From UK Party General Election 2024 Manifesto Designs

The incumbent due a thrashing. Their 80-pager featured not a single photo, chart or image. Save, if qualifies, for repeated use of full-page section divider of a fluttering part-union jack. This is the last appearance. A different take of the other side comes in seven times before. A fan of

First Steps For Change

These are @Keir_Starmer’s first steps for change 👇 — The Labour Party (@UKLabour) May 16, 2024 Oh dear. Out of the frying pan, yet shortly into the fire. Can we note anything from the framing of prospective government policy to entice that cross in our box come voting day? With

Reseeding Marginalia

When last in Kiev (now Kyiv) I got highly frustrated at all the wonderful cafes and bars that had universally dispensed with physical menus. As a tech hub of some renown and ambition in those days, they'd pretty much adopted en masse solely the QR code accessed menu. Utterly ridiculous.

Bombproofing Your Proposal

This is a phrase I see coming to the fore as the UK General Election looms into view, sometime later this year. Each party traditionally publishes its manifesto. I realise not all democracies exhibit such practice. It's a documented array of the policies that, if elected, they aim to enact.

Pi Day Accuracy Reminder

Did you know? NASA only uses 15 digits of π for calculating interplanetary travel. At 40 digits, you could calculate the circumference of a circle the size of the visible universe with an accuracy that'd fall off by less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom.#piDay2024 pic.twitter.com/