Westminster One: Big Ben to Buckingham Palace spare hour united kingdom

When I first moved to London over a decade ago, I kept getting disoriented. The Thames, one of my reference points, was never where I thought it was.

Buenos Ai...

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Why soft sower starts with seeing the friction perspectives

The soft skills that were enough five years ago aren't enough anymore. And I don't mean languages, though fluency matters. I mean the ability to understand how ...

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To CC or not to CC: that is the friction relational dimension the friction dispatch

Every Monday, a Mexican public affairs manager at a London-based organisation sends an update to her British peers. Same three people, same format, most weeks n...

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When your body says more than your words spatial dimension the friction dispatch

Most professionals preparing for a British-LatAm meeting think about what they are going to say. Very few think about what their body is already saying before t...

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What's The Loop System™ and why it works slots v. loops™

I built the Slot System™ first. The harder question was what shape the other side would take.

I kept coming back to something small: the difference between my ...

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When ‘now’ means different things temporal dimension the friction dispatch

There is a phrase that became a kind of shorthand during the pandemic years, when every meeting moved online and every delegation that used to fly into London s...

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Slots v. Loops™ & The Lasso Way perspectives

Ted Lasso is back, and I won't pretend I’m not delighted.

I remember watching the previous seasons and recognising my own work as a diplomatic interpreter in T...

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Why I Follow the Othello Principle perspectives

Confidentiality is at the centre of the interpreting profession and drives interpreters to guard the content of conferences, meetings, depositions, and medical ...

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What's the Slot System™ and why it works slots v. loops™

I moved to London in 2015 and did what any newly arrived Argentine in a new city would do: signed up for everything. 

One of those things was my local book clu...

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