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2020

Here are my blog posts from 2020, the Covid era, a strange new world we’re still learning to navigate. The year’s posts cover marketing, content creation, copywriting, and all sorts of random subjects I fancy writing about.

Could a Carbon Free Dividend Rewire the Economy?

03/12/202003/12/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

Those in charge face a tricky post-Covid dilemma. Yes, we need to rebuild the world’s economies. But experts say the human race is fighting a ‘suicidal’ war against the natural world, which means we also need to act immediately to […]

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Making a Clear, Positive Argument – For or Against

27/10/202027/10/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

Do you need to make a clear, positive, powerful argument for or against something? If so I can help you do that. Here’s one I made earlier for a proposed development in the area where I live, the Gammaton Moor […]

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The Eyes Have It – Human Communication in a Covid World

16/09/202016/09/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

As a writer, I’m interested by the way people communicate. Now we’re all wearing masks, it’s a challenge to get our emotions across in the old-school way, full-facial with a smile. It’s proving fascinating to watch people expressing themselves creatively […]

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An Interview With the Author

18/08/202022/11/2021 Kate GoldstoneThe Nurse Diaries

I write for businesses all over the world. I also write for fun. My first novel is called The Nurse Diaries – The Life and Times of a Brighton Serial Killer. It’s a black comedy by The Nurse, my evil […]

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How to Make Artificial Intelligence Less Biased

17/08/202017/08/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

As the A’ Level results scandal shows, an artificial intelligence can easily pick up and echo biases inherent in the data it was trained on. It isn’t new. Plenty of the world’s police forces already rely on AIs with serious […]

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Covid-19 – A World-Class Habit Breaker

04/08/202004/08/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

It’s notoriously hard to break a habit. Habit breaking takes time, creativity, willpower, and dedication. So it’s interesting to see how many people have taken the chance provided by lockdown, and the strange months since it began to ease, to […]

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Marketing My Comedy-Thriller Novel

27/07/202022/11/2021 Kate GoldstoneThe Nurse Diaries

After finishing my comedy-thriller novel, I made a marketing plan. Then Covid-19 hit and the world changed. The experience makes a neat little planning case study, as well as a reminder that a plan is never really finished, it’s a […]

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Scare Yourself Silly With a ‘Limit Login Attempts’ Plug-in

16/07/202016/07/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

Every day thousands of websites get hacked. Hacks are part of everyday online life and it’s easy to get complacent, especially if your own site hasn’t been hacked… yet. At the same time, complacency can be dangerous. Cyber security threats […]

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Covid-19 – The Symptoms, the Science, and the Truth

13/07/202014/07/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

“I’ve had lots of contact with people who are really destroyed by this. They never expected it to be a long term chronic problem.” (Tim Spector, Epidemiologist, Kings College London) Personally, I don’t feel I can trust England’s government to […]

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Hemingway, Hermes, Politics, and Managing Your Own Patch

29/06/202029/06/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

Lockdown might be easing but like many people I’m staying put, staying safe, staying in until the science becomes clearer. And in the meantime, I’m thinking… hard. I’m not the only one re-evaluating modern life. All over the world people […]

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Lockdown Tales – Magic Berol, Devon Broadband, Webcam taxi

01/06/202001/06/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

Lockdown is beginning to ease in England, but it just doesn’t feel right. We’re staying put for the time being, remaining in isolation despite what the government says. Here are some more stories from our lockdown world. Magic 25 year […]

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Lockdown Stories: Magic Hooks, Crazy Thinking, Free at Last

21/05/202021/05/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

How’s your lockdown going? For me it’s beginning to feel normal, but I’ve worked at home for more than fifteen years so the shock wasn’t anywhere near as profound as it was for some. Life trundles on. Here are some […]

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Waking Up, Smelling the Coffee… and Starting a Revolution!

28/04/202028/04/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

Here we are, several weeks into lockdown, and normal life couldn’t feel farther away. These days ‘normal’ feels like a lot like a foreign land seen from a great distance. As we wait to find out what the new post-Covid-19 […]

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Can I Help Communicate Your Covid-19 Exit Strategy?

24/04/202024/04/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

We’re nowhere near the end of the Covid-19 crisis. It’s likely lockdown will last for quite a while longer. But forward-thinking businesses are already working hard to pin down a Covid-19 exit strategy, planning for an eventual return to something […]

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Personal Stories From Lockdown

20/04/202020/04/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

I don’t know about you, but I’ve just about stopped reeling with the shock of Covid-19, the speed of its spread, the horror and uncertainty of it all. My brain is working again, or at least on a limited basis! […]

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Climate Science in Bullet Points – The Latest

31/03/202031/03/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

As Covid-19 rages around the globe, climate change continues to bite. But behind the horror, hope is rising. What might the new world we emerge into afterwards look like? Will the balance of power shift? The 2008 banking crisis and […]

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New Science – How Much Energy Does Binge Watching Use?

19/03/202019/03/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

If you’ve been feeling guilty about streaming content from home because it’s such a big climate change no-no, take heart. One, it’s nowhere near as damaging as the overwhelming climate sins many business giants are still getting away with. Two, […]

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Bullet Point Climate Change Science Update

11/03/202012/03/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

21,000 years ago, after the last Glacial Maximum, the world’s people were forced to cope with gradual temperature rises of as much as five degrees. It was probably down to a small shift in earth’s orbit, which led to more […]

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Climate Change News in Bullet Points

10/02/202010/02/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

Here’s one for Extinction Rebellion Torrington branch, my local XR group. We live in a rural, mostly agricultural area where farmers are struggling to change in the face of climate change, without the necessary government support, advice or funding. As […]

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Excerpts from My Comedy Thriller Novel

07/02/202007/02/2020 Kate Goldstone2020

My first novel – a comedy thriller – is out in the wild with a bunch of proofreaders at the moment, so I thought I’d showcase a few random excerpts from it. Here’s some content from The Nurse Diaries: The […]

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