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A depressing thing about Chat GPT is when various readers generate something “in the style of writer Ian Whitworth”. Because it always uses a Barefoot Investor tone.
“G’day fellow biz operator! I got home the other night, put the trusty Hilux in the back paddock, and as I was coming through the door I heard a shrieking sound like a possum caught in a rusty gate hinge. Entering the lounge room I realised that noise wasn’t any kind of marsupial. It was Mrs Barefoot reading the bank statements, fair dinkum the monthly fees on those business accounts would make a goldfish shriek.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ian Whitworth is a reformed branding and advertising creative director turned entrepreneur, who co-founded corporate audiovisual company Scene Change.
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