🥳 Shorthand lives! It’s still taught to UK journalists and remains a skill sought after by some employers in countries such as The Philippines 🇵🇭 and India 🇮🇳, which is also home to the only shrine to Sir Isaac Pitman

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📝It's publication week for my new book Take Note, so it's time to learn about Cassian, patron saint of stenographers, jabbed to death by his stylus-wielding students. Read more in my piece for @litreview.bsky.social literaryreview.co.uk/note-to-self #TakeNoteBook

📝Just 1 week to publication of my new book ‘Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand’. Here’s why you should grab the first edition 📚 and learn how the world’s first speech-recording technology changed the working world ✍️ profilebooks.com/work/take-no...

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Beware aggressive consultants, selling technology on efficiency grounds. One lesson from the rise and fall of shorthand and typing. My analysis for the FT, based on my new book, Take Note (£): www.ft.com/content/8f33...

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The forgotten virtues of "note-taking" and the lesson of the QWERTY keyboard. A nice shout-out for my new book, Take Note, in Corriere della Sera (buy the book for much more about notes, typewriters and Churchill) www.corriere.it/cronache/26_... #TakeNoteBook #shorthand #stenography

"Equipped only with nerve and deplorable shorthand, she begged for a job as secretary, dog walker, coffee maker and lighter of the office coal fire" - former Mirror fashion editor Felicity Green, who has died aged 100 #shorthand #TakeNoteBook www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

📝 Good luck to everyone sitting the @nctj.bsky.social shorthand exam today!

Shorthand still beats any app for speed, security and on-deadline transcription, IMO.

My new book on the past, present and future of the ”winged art” is out 5 Nov: profilebooks.com/work/take-no...

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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

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...