Society of Indexers Conference and Content Quality
Reflections from a Society of Indexers conference presentation on how publishers are using AI, and whether AI-generated content will lower—or diversify—creative standards.
Posts and Newsletters
AI Presentation for BookNet Canada
A summary of a BookNet Canada Tech Forum presentation on building a balanced and ethical AI strategy in publishing, covering copyright, accuracy, environmental impact and practical use cases.
New Office
(Originally posted on LinkedIn): I’m coming up on four years of working as an independent consultant, and I’ve hit the limit on working f...
Books of the Year 2023
(Originally posted on LinkedIn): It’s become a habit each December for me to post about the best books that I read this year. For the fou...
Geopolitics, Publishing and TikTok
TikTok's geopolitical vulnerability is a prompt for publishers to ask a harder question: what proportion of your social audience are you migrating to channels you own?
Four Ages of Strategy
Applying Rumsfeld's four epistemic states—including the often-overlooked 'unknown known'—to map the four ages of business strategy and what they demand of leaders today.
A Fair Share in the Circular Economy
Original research estimating the UK secondhand book market at £360–500 million, and what it means for author earnings and the AuthorShare compensation scheme.
Business Models and Borges
On building useful business models: why a Borges short story about a 1:1 scale map is the perfect reminder that abstraction, not precision, is the goal.