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Andrew Hill

@andrewtghill.ft.com
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Journalist, speaker, writer. Forthcoming: 'Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand' (Profile Books, 2026)

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 29/09/2026
I have to point out that you can currently pre-order my new book Take Note, the first English-language history of shorthand for 75 years, in glorious hardback at a discount price of just over £12 on a certain ecommerce site #TakeNoteBook @profilebooks.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/0f5rkiE3
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Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand
Buy Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand Main by Hill, Andrew (ISBN: 9781805226178) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 18/09/2026
“Nobody should have to point out the returns on the effort needed to cook a meal for, attend a live performance with, or make love to, another human. Yet this is the lonely online world where many now live.” The FT View - in praise of friction-maxxing as.ft.com/r/b4878314-5...
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The merits of friction-maxxing
Pushing against the move to seamless online efficiency can make us happier and safer
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 15/09/2026
Take Note is coming! My book on how shorthand, a 2,000-year workplace technology, can help us reclaim our ideas from AI and boost brainpower. Available from @profilebooks.bsky.social in November. Pre-order now 📝 #TakeNoteBook profilebooks.com/work/take-no...
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 13/09/2026
In volatile times, what does it take to occupy the CEO hot seat? I asked the heads of four big executive search firms what skills boards are seeking from future leaders and how to assess them as.ft.com/r/f14c0faf-c... #leadership
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How to find a leader in 2026
Four top headhunters reveal what boards are looking for now and the role of AI
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 17/08/2026
Fifteen authors - including three former winners - are up for the FT Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award. The longlist is here www.ft.com/content/d8f7... #BBYA26 #BusinessBooks
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FT and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award 2026 — the longlist
Contenders include three former winners and titles on power, innovation and society
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 15/08/2026
The FT View on the “summer of Homer” and our “implicit tribute to one of the greatest poems of all time” as.ft.com/r/3c0a8a5d-5... Why Homer will outlast us all
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Why Homer will outlast us all
Heated rows over $1bn-grossing movie reflect The Odyssey’s enduring force
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 09/08/2026
“We should be encouraging our children to aim for the stars, but they may need to reframe their target” - my latest FT column on childhood career dreams as.ft.com/r/aad07629-b... Career satisfaction in an uncertain world? Dream on
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Career satisfaction in an uncertain world? Dream on
Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 09/08/2026
“We should be encouraging our children to aim for the stars, but they may need to reframe their target” - my latest FT column on childhood career dreams as.ft.com/r/aad07629-b... Career satisfaction in an uncertain world? Dream on
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Career satisfaction in an uncertain world? Dream on
Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 08/08/2026
Stop feeding my cat! ft.trib.al/PtMUwO5 #FTEdit
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Stop feeding my cat!
Rogue feeders are creating armies of Six-Dinner Sids, prompting felines to pile on the pounds and even pushing some owners to take legal action. The claws are out
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 06/08/2026
Lord help us if voice-activated AI is being trained on the nonsense spouted by its own promoters as.ft.com/r/746587db-8... Talk, don’t type: Big Tech bets AI’s future will be spoken
Screen shot of this quote from FT article: “We’re going up the curve much more quickly, but definitely there are still those paper cuts that need to be worked through,” he added. “It is only a matter of time before [voice] is a dominant interaction paradigm.”
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 04/08/2026
Introducing management by mammoth tooth - interesting profile of Novo Nordisk’s new boss by Aaron Kirchfeld and Aanu Adeoye as.ft.com/r/4b01a383-e... ‘Arrogance kills’: Novo chief injects risk-taking into Ozempic maker
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 04/08/2026
Delighted to see my award-winning book #Ruskinland back in the Kindle store, thanks to @pallasathene.co.uk (hardback also still available via all good bookshops). The perfect introduction to the life and ideas of polymath John Ruskin www.amazon.co.uk/Ruskinland-J...
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 03/08/2026
“Soft-pedalling of gender targets for the executive pipeline could undermine wider efforts to improve the lot of female employees, such as narrowing the pay gap or encouraging flexible working” - my column on how the “Trump effect” is setting back corporate diversity as.ft.com/r/cf99e256-2...
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The ‘Trump effect’ is taking a toll on corporate gender goals
Changes at the Australian Securities Exchange are the latest sign of a global rollback of diversity policies
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 25/07/2026
Ben Franklin said we should share our inventions “freely and generously”. Silicon Valley should give thanks; instead it sues. The FT View on the latest scrap in the war for talent between Apple and OpenAI as.ft.com/r/2de15b18-a...
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In praise of the free flow of human ingenuity
Apple is suing OpenAI for alleged theft but Silicon Valley is founded on the exchange of ideas
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 17/07/2026
Employers are realising they can’t do without entry-level, AI-native young people - but if AI is doing the grunt work, how will the juniors ever learn to be seniors? My FT analysis of the changing shape of early careers as.ft.com/r/d7e1b744-2...
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AI isn’t destroying entry-level jobs. It’s changing them
Here are the ways leading companies are already responding to the AI revolution in professional services
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 13/07/2026
“The days of ‘let a thousand flowers bloom’, tech for the sake of tech, are gone” - emmavj.bsky.social and I on how employers pushed staff to tokenmaxx, then changed their minds as.ft.com/r/f0bc9862-b...
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Employers pushed staff to use AI more. That has backfired
Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 07/07/2026
“VW does not need more decision makers; it needs more sense-makers” - my FT column on why companies everywhere need leaders who can improvise in uncertain times, as the late, great Karl Weick advised as.ft.com/r/1235df54-e...
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Volkswagen needs sense-makers at the top
Carmaker will have to cultivate capacity to improvise as it navigates the profound uncertainty it faces
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 21/06/2026
You may hope that AI spells the end of self-help books but it’ll take more than the most powerful technology ever devised to kill off the genre, concludes @emmavj.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/0b28cf06-3... ChatGPT moved my cheese: AI is unsettling the self-help shelf
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ChatGPT moved my cheese: AI is unsettling the self-help shelf
Instant summaries sound the death knell for the bullet-point books that prey on our insecurities
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 16/06/2026
When Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe left captivity in Iran she vowed to leave the experience behind her. Politicians have “taken my present and my past, I’m not going to let them take my future” - the author and advocate, speaking at #FTWomen summit
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in flower-pattern dress on stage and on the big screen at #FTWomen in Business summit
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 16/06/2026
Carol Shanahan is determined to turn Port Vale into “the best-run football club in the EFL”, a place where “humanity is prioritised, whereas I think in a lot of football, it’s not”. My interview with one of football’s few female owners #FTWomen www.ft.com/content/0e9d...
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Carol Shanahan is playing eternal snakes and ladders
Port Vale football club has just been relegated, but its owner says: you win or you learn
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 15/06/2026
My pick of the best business books of 2026 so far (NB as always, I’ve left the tech books to colleague @johnthornhill.bsky.social ) as.ft.com/r/7f69463d-b... Best summer books of 2026: Business #BusinessBooks
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Best summer books of 2026: Business
Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 09/06/2026
Real Madrid’s Pérez and SpaceX’s Musk are “playing a dangerous game at the place where emotion and cold investment calculation overlap”. My latest FT column as.ft.com/r/f6d3c7f3-6... Real Madrid and the dangers of mixing fans and finance
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Real Madrid and the dangers of mixing fans and finance
Club president Florentino Pérez’s aim of bringing in outside investors is high risk
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 29/05/2026
"This is a thankless moment for any established carmaker to launch a new vehicle" - the FT View on the lessons from the launch of Ferrari's all-electric Luce as.ft.com/r/7b868611-f...
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A bumpy road to electric vehicle success
Ferrari Luce’s launch caused more heat than light but has lessons for incumbents
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 29/05/2026
🏆 The #BrackenPrize for Young Authors is back, supported by FT & Standard Chartered. If you're under 35 with an original business book idea, enter by 30 Sept. Winner £15,000; 2 runners-up £2,000 each, plus a masterclass and invitation to the award dinner brackenprize.live.ft.com
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 22/05/2026
"Apart from breathing a sigh of relief that Musk’s plans to inhabit their planet are now a lower priority, what would a Martian beamed down to Wall Street make of the SpaceX IPO?" The FT View as.ft.com/r/f7111f7b-4...
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To infinity and beyond, with the SpaceX IPO
Ordinary investors can at last bet directly on AI’s potential — with caveats
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 19/05/2026
A "profound and often tragic" story of language extinction and preservation - my FT review of @sophiasgaler.bsky.social's beautiful and moving new book as.ft.com/r/0eaf8f40-d...
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How to Kill a Language — the beauty and value of linguistic diversity
Sophia Smith Galer’s moving book is a rallying call to revive minority tongues amid increasing globalisation
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 18/05/2026
“If you don’t win, it’s good to know that your money has gone somewhere” - @stephistacey.ft.com and I talked to CEO Andria Vidler about the challenge of reviving the National Lottery as.ft.com/r/2bd9e69b-7...
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National Lottery CEO: ‘The scale of this transformation was unbelievable’
The UK institution, under the first new operator since its launch, is battling falling sales and new rivals
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 14/05/2026
'If you know Heart of Darkness, I feel like I did a bit of the journey down the river and got to see how our modern financial system works, up close' - Eric "Lean Startup" Ries talks to me about the horrors he discovered while writing his new book Incorruptible as.ft.com/r/6353d07a-d...
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‘I’ve seen some things’: Eric Ries on why good companies go bad
Author of the start-up bible has turned his attention to corrupting influences at the heart of contemporary capitalism
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 11/05/2026
New research suggests family company employees are less intelligent than their counterparts elsewhere, held back by a ‘surname ceiling’ - my column why family companies aren’t as great as everyone thinks as.ft.com/r/3037c8ac-4...
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The ‘surname ceiling’ holding back family companies
Many of the brightest workers steer clear of such businesses because promotions are scarcer and rewards lower
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 06/05/2026
Meet the art schools designing Champions League posters for Paris Saint-Germain www.nytimes.com/athletic/725...
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Meet the art schools designing Champions League posters for Paris Saint-Germain (Gift Article)
The posters have been shared on PSG’s social media accounts and have received almost six million views across various channels
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 05/05/2026
'A powerful if one-sided case that wealthy elites have over centuries conspired with their managers to suggest that “there is no alternative” to market fundamentalism.' My FT review of Control Science by Henry Snow as.ft.com/r/e4fa99a2-b...
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Control Science — a one-sided case against managers
From the inspection towers of 19th-century factories to the data architecture of Amazon warehouses, Henry Snow casts those who surveil workers as capitalism’s villains
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 01/05/2026
'As machined “thought leadership” overwhelms our inboxes and social media, AI will start learning from itself, homogenising all prose into grey slop' - the FT View on the dangers, and benefits, of AI-written prose as.ft.com/r/79a4316e-6...
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The irresistible rise of authorial AI
Humans must get used to living and working with the quirks of machine-written text
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 27/04/2026
Inviting AI to the boardroom table once “seemed very Star Trekkie” , but now directors are asking ‘should we appoint a bot?’ @aarmstrongsays.bsky.social and I look into the trend as.ft.com/r/1086167f-1...
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Should your board appoint a bot?
New AI tools help chairs and directors with prep and research but are unlikely to be granted a vote
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 16/04/2026
“Corporate boards have deduced that greater bulk is worth buying. Is it?” The FT View on record-breaking ‘megadeals’ - what should bidders learn from the last record year, 2015, which brought us, among others, M&A dud Kraft Heinz? as.ft.com/r/53c839cd-8...
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‘Megadeals’ defy market fears and volatile geopolitics
Boards should heed the lessons of the last record surge in big M&A in 2015
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 15/04/2026
“By delegating part of his role to a machine, Mark Zuckerberg raises the question of what CEOs actually do, and how much of it is time well spent.” My FT column on Meta building an AI Zuckerberg — the reverse of “management by walking around”: as.ft.com/r/639f232a-f...
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The CEO chatbot era is coming
Many executives will be tempted by Meta’s plans for AI version of Mark Zuckerberg with interest
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Absolutely! #BookSky
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 13/04/2026
“My door is always open” as.ft.com/r/a03d7b45-0... Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff
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Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff
[FREE TO READ] Chief executive is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 13/04/2026
Shoplifting “has become the latest something-must-be-done crime. But what?” The FT View on how to deal with the unsettling rise in retail theft as.ft.com/r/af14ec78-7...
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How to make shoplifting a crime with consequences
[FREE TO READ] Police, shop owners and policymakers must combine to fight organised retail theft
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 13/04/2026
How and why did business books break out of their hard covers? Here’s my analysis of the weird, AI-fuelled future of the book, as we launch this year’s FT Business Book of the Year Award with new partner Standard Chartered as.ft.com/r/57cd8af8-c... #BBYA26
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Breaking cover: the future of the business book
[FREE TO READ] Authors are experimenting with new technology and formats to better communicate ideas
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 12/03/2026
‘Management consultants often ask clients: “What does success look like?” As war in the Middle East approaches its third week, companies are having to consider the opposite question: “What does failure look like?”’ - the FT View on how war is reshaping business as.ft.com/r/56ba82e3-d...
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How the Iran war will change global business
[FREE TO READ] Damage from the conflict is already having an impact on corporate strategy
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 12/03/2026
Redzepi's resignation reminded me just how long the allegations have been out there. I wrote about Noma and the lessons for managers in 2015 when Redzepi was asking whether there was "still room for guys like me" in the industry as.ft.com/r/c5630b84-3...
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Too many angry cooks spoil the business broth
[FREE TO READ] Top Noma chef’s call for better behaviour echoes conventional team management
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 08/03/2026
Travel is “getting harder for the wrong people”, but “for the right people, I don’t see any impact [on] the mood” - Dubai-based Zubin Karkaria, CEO of VFS, the world’s largest visa processor, unbowed by geopolitical turmoil. Interview by me and @stephistacey.ft.com as.ft.com/r/8116e003-b...
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Geopolitical hit to travel is ‘temporary’, says CEO of world’s largest visa processor
[FREE TO READ] VFS boss Zubin Karkaria is confident global migration will remain resilient despite new tensions
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 04/03/2026
This is a little premature, but I'm delighted to say my book about shorthand, one of the world's oldest workplace technologies, is now available for pre-order ahead of November publication by Profile Books www.amazon.co.uk/Take-Note-Ni... #TakeNote #shorthand
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Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand
Buy Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand Main by Hill, Andrew (ISBN: 9781805226178) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 19/02/2026
Once in a while, along comes a news story that sums up the mad times we live in as.ft.com/r/c38cc40a-1...
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A court will decide if bankers can be fired for demanding sleep
[FREE TO READ] US jury to rule on whether Centerview erred by sacking junior analyst who needed at least eight hours’ rest per night
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It’s Charles Dickens’ birthday, and he would be flabbergasted to see how civilisation as he thought of it is being gleefully dismantled by venal hypocrites, sinister buffoons and raving narcissistic autocrats whom he would have rejected as villains too grotesque even for his novels.
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 01/02/2026
Colleague and fellow Davos-goer @pilitaclark.bsky.social has ideated around her North Star, operationalised her five days at the Alpine summit and shared some key takeaways that should be top of mind as you follow your red thread through 2026 as.ft.com/r/d6606d08-1...
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What Davos taught me about corporate jargon
[FREE TO READ] Business speak continues to astonish and is spreading far beyond the corporation
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 26/01/2026
“Less an algorithmic perversion than a mirror to our already pervasive ego-massaging culture” - @emmavj.bsky.social on the sycophantic omnipresence of AI in our work lives as.ft.com/r/4177d473-5...
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The hard truth about AI at work? It won’t tell you
[FREE TO READ] Automated office companions cut out the mess of human interaction, but convenience isn’t everything
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21/01/2026
Pray you once more, Is not your father grown incapable Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear? Know man from man? Dispute his own estate? Lies he not bed-rid? And again does nothing But what he did being childish?
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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 14/01/2026
A warm welcome to Standard Chartered, new partner for the FT Business Book of the Year Award #BBYA26 #BusinessBooks as.ft.com/r/9db1f3fa-a...
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FT book award enters new partnership with Standard Chartered
[FREE TO READ] Bank to back Business Book of the Year and Bracken Prize for Young Authors for next three years
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