Autumn reading – healthier than doom scrolling
Books also make you think, whereas much of social media seems to serve little cognitively enriching purpose.
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Tag: productivity
Ten takeaways from the ASTTI Financial Translation Summer Conference in Spiez
Ten short takeaways by and for translation professionals from an excellent event in Switzerland.
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Busting the 100% productivity myth: great(ly exaggerated corporate) expectations
100% efficiency is an illusion – despite any claims of the corporate world to the contrary. Don’t beat yourself up about it, but make sure you communicate clearly with your customer from the outset.
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Not just a one-trick pony – How job crafting works
An in-house translator may be viewed as a “one-trick pony”. They just translate all the time, right? How non-translation-based activities can help translators to flourish.
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Comparing Translation to Tetris
Why I have likened translation and being an in-house translator to Tetris.
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Understanding your time/activity sheets: getting more out and analysing them to propose a simplification
Every considered the link between a London taxi and time/activity logging and charging strategies for translators?
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Stripping non-breaking hyphens in Word
While non-breaking hyphens are useful in Word, they are rendered as tags in Trados – which can cause problems with missing tags in the target translation.
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