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Q: What has DeepSeek got to do with business writing?

A: Constraints lead to innovation.

The scientists working for DeepSeek didn’t have the money and data centres filled with £30,000 microchips so they had to find a different way to build artificial intelligence models. They did it by asking better questions of the data rather than cramming more and more data through their processors (as I understand it, anyway).

You can apply this approach to your writing. The most obvious constraint is time.

If you have 1 hour instead of 1 day to write a report, what would you do? And if you allow yourself 1 or 2 pages instead of 20?

✅ You might ask yourself better questions about what to include and what to exclude.

✅ You might write shorter, snappier sentences.

✅ You might think about how to lay out your document to make it easier to read.

If you want to improve your writing, give yourself some constraints.

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