Is your writing hard to understand or says nothing at all? Do you want to save the reader time and increase their understanding? Does your reader walk away like they’ve tried to decode something? If so, here are some books to help you become a better writer. Revising Prose by Richard A. Lanham (Link) … Read more
Skills
5 Ways to get back 25% of your day in an instant
If you find your days full of back-to-back meetings, here are some tactics that I found helped. 1 . Screencast If you find that you are giving the same talk to group after group, screencast your talk and send it in advance. The 20 minutes it will take you to record will send you … Read more
How to find an RSB Opinion
If you want to get a sober analysis of a Commission’s proposal, spend some time and read the Regulatory Scrutiny Board‘s opinion(s) on it. If you want to read them, you need to head over here to the register of documents and run a search. The opinion(s) are published when the legislative proposal is … Read more
My Limited EU Knowledge Tree
I took advantage of being sick to try and map my limited circle of competence on EU Public Affairs. I recently came across the visual of a knowledge Tree for the Common Law. I chunk Public Affairs down into Issue Expertise, Process Expertise and Skills. This is my primitive visualisation of the limited … Read more