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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 09/12/2025

Also thanks to the Stannahs for introducing me to founder Joseph's 150-year-old "Rules of Life". Number 9: "Acquire a habit of doing everything well"

Joseph Stannah’s Rules of Life
1. Have a plan before-hand for everyday.

2. Acquire a habit of untiring industry.

3. Cultivate perseverance.

4. Cultivate the habit of punctuality.

5. Be an early riser.

6. Be in the habit of learning something from every man whom you meet.

7. Form fixed principles on which to think and act.

8. Be simple and neat in your personal habits.

9. Acquire a habit of doing everything well.

10. Make constant efforts to be master of your temper.

11. Cultivate soundness of judgement.

12. Observe a proper treatment of parents, friends and companions.

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 24/06/2025

Putin sitting at the far end of a very very long table

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 08/02/2025

“Many of the persons commonly considered wealthy, are in reality no more wealthy than the locks of their own strong boxes” - John Ruskin, born OTD 1819, had plenty to say about the very rich, creating ILLTH, the opposite of wealth, and “causing various devastation and trouble”

Whence it appears that many of the persons commonly considered wealthy, are in reality no more wealthy than the locks of their own strong boxes are, they being inherently and eternally incapable of wealth, and operating for the nation, in an economical point of view, either as pools of dead water, and eddies in a stream (which, so long as the stream flows, are useless, or serve only to drown people, but may become of importance in a state of stagnation should the stream dry); or else, as dams in a river, of which the ultimate service depends not on the dam, but the miller; or else, as mere accidental stays and impediments, acting not as wealth, but (for we ought to have a correspondent term) as "illth," causing various devastation and trouble around them in all directions;

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 08/02/2025

“When companies abandon [DEI] programmes to address historical imbalances, they’re not correcting past excesses. They’re reverting to comfortable norms that have served only a select few.” @johnamaechi.apsintel.com on why the problem is not the words we use on.ft.com/4aYgeD2

The problem is not, and has never been, the words we use. The problem is that the people whom those words make visible and attempt to protect remain unwelcome. As organisations navigate these challenges, they would do well to remember that history has rarely judged kindly those who, when faced with moral choices about human dignity and equality, chose the path of least resistance.

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 24/12/2024

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 17/12/2024

Me neither!

Unwanted sheltered housing publicity, ripped into tiny pieces

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 04/12/2024

What’s the point of the FT/Schroders Business Book of the Year Award? + other questions, including “why on earth have you stayed at the FT as long as you have?”. I chat to Chris Roush about #businessbooks and business #journalism in the 20th year of the award #BBYA24 www.linkedin.com/posts/qwoted...

Screenshot of Chris Roush and me online for our Qwoted podcast

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Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com · 24/08/2024

Last month, I put my fraying shorthand to the test in the Olympics of speed-writing. Here’s my FT Magazine account of how I fared on.ft.com/4cCie2T

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