About me

Hello, I’m Jo. I live in London. I have a weekly newsletter and blog which you can find here.

‘About me’ pages are difficult to write and boring to read. So instead here are some things I feel strongly about, according to my twitter feed.

1. Maximising productivity

Having stood in m&s staring at pillows for half an hour I am ready to concede that perhaps this was not the right choice of activity for the day after an all nighter

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) August 27, 2018

2. Office etiquette

I have concluded that there are good people in this world, and then there are people who load a dishwasher with knife blades pointing up

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) August 13, 2018

3. Attention to detail

Got a sketch pad and pencils from WH Smith the other week because it was open and have started drawing every night. This week I drew the pub. pic.twitter.com/t8Rkva9Pmk

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) January 22, 2021

4. Being an active user of social media

Out of Facebook's many downsides my favourite is how, regardless of how many people are attending your event, the page always turns into a list of all the better ways non-attendees are spending their time instead

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) August 2, 2018

5. Keeping co-workers happy

Quite happy in his little box of water today pic.twitter.com/JILdcWh4qR

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) August 10, 2020

6. Colouring in

At the beginning of lockdown, feeling like I’d achieved the square root of sod all this year, I made myself a crappy hand drawn chart and decided that if I couldn’t have a social life then I would write the absolute shit out of lockdown 2.

Final count: 28,539 words ? pic.twitter.com/9isFB1HXiU

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) December 2, 2020

7. Good photography

How can we as a society address the scourge of badly photoshopped moons pic.twitter.com/LIiD5TWDJw

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) April 12, 2018

8. Knowing my audience

– write about being a woman
– get 2 immediate unsubscribes
– my work here is done ??

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) January 19, 2018

9. Learning new things

Morning pic.twitter.com/g7fCVfjmIG

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) February 13, 2018

10. Using the right words

Why are they speaking to me like this pic.twitter.com/u5ra7r45JP

— Jo H-C (@joannahc) March 5, 2019

You can follow me on twitter here.