{"id":52,"date":"2014-09-23T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T11:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learner-friendly.com\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2024-01-12T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:37:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.francismiller.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Francis Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The story<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2799 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.francismiller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/francis_miller_7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.francismiller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/francis_miller_7.png 210w, https:\/\/www.francismiller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/francis_miller_7-150x150.png 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 210px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 210\/210;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2799\" src=\"https:\/\/www.francismiller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/francis_miller_7.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.francismiller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/francis_miller_7.png 210w, https:\/\/www.francismiller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/francis_miller_7-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/noscript>It was in about 2015 that I started thinking about how people could learn more effectively from non-fiction books. Books have always been an important part of my life but I was beginning to get frustrated with the amount I was learning from my reading.<\/p>\n<p>Initially I believed that teaching readers to use more effective reading strategies might prove to be a good solution.<\/p>\n<p>However I soon came to realise that reading strategies put the burden of work on the reader. Instead I began to wonder how things might be better if non-fiction authors wrote and structured their books in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I have been developing the ideas you can read about here.<\/p>\n<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>My work background over the years has been quite varied.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, I founded and then was the first editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/roambrain.com\/\">RoamBrain.com<\/a>, which is an information hub for Roam Research. Roam is a note-taking and knowledge management app.<\/p>\n<p>My roles and activities previous to that included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>business consulting for small businesses and non-profit organisations for nearly 20 years<\/li>\n<li>being one of the four founders of the Merlin Ecology Fund (now the Jupiter Ecology Fund) in 1988. Merlin was the UK&#8217;s first environmental unit trust and, as the Jupiter Ecology Fund, is one of the world&#8217;s longest-established green investment funds<\/li>\n<li>being one of the three original staff members of the New Economics Foundation in 1986 (now one of the UK&#8217;s largest think tanks)<\/li>\n<li>management consultancy work for the Falkland Islands Government in 1984<\/li>\n<li>articles for various news and business publications, including a jointly written article\u00a0for the<em> Guardian\u00a0<\/em>on how novelists have incorporated an awareness of environmental problems into their work and an article for the <em>New Statesman <\/em>on the political implications of the concept of emotional intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and live in Hertfordshire, England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story It was in about 2015 that I started thinking about how people could learn more effectively from non-fiction books. 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