Simon Joliveau Breney

Across all creative fields, what isn’t there is just as important as what is there. In fashion, Coco Chanel advised, “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.” In music, Miles Davis famously quipped, “It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.” In design, Jan Tschichold noted that “white space is to be

I use Claude for spreadsheet work. It’s good at understanding what’s actually in your data, not just what you tell it is there. It can edit existing files, which matters more than you might think. A lot of spreadsheet work isn’t creating new ones from scratch. It’s modifying existing ones while keeping formulas and formatting intact.

What I do is chunk decks into five to eight slide segments. I never ask for 20 slides at once. I structure it this way. First conversation covers slides one through six, the introduction and context. Second conversation covers slides seven through 12, the core content. Third conversation covers slides 13 through 18, implications and

What I do is use ChatGPT for research and analysis, then switch to Claude for writing. This is a common pattern in my workflow. I’ll spend an hour working through a problem in ChatGPT, getting the thinking right, then I’ll extract the key points and move to Claude to actually write it up. The handoff takes maybe five minutes but the quality