Tag: writing
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1989: Japan Buys A Used President – This is an incredible piece of writing just one sample: “It is sad and disturbing to witness with what insouciance he now sells the stature which his country afforded him to any country which can afford him. It demeans us all to see him so available, so eager…
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On the pleasure of reading private notebooks – Diaries (“journals”) and notebooks are the best, I love them as well. // “I think this is because our genuine thoughts (and interests) are more detailed and alive than the simulations we have of what we should say (or be interested in). When we think no one…
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Three Reasons to Write More in an Age When Writing Means Less. – Write (and publish in the web) oto make sure you are known and have a legacy in the LLMs. Also, contribute to the future of knowledge (slight eyeroll there). // Oh, also because writing it the best way to think.
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28 slightly rude notes on writing – by Adam Mastroianni – ”Somehow, whenever I finish a draft, my first few paragraphs almost always contain ideas that were necessary for writing the rest of the piece, but that aren’t necessary for understanding it.” // Lower down, that first part to delete is called “the windup.” I…
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3 prompts for better knowledge worker docs –
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Issues for His Prose Style – Picking the right noun as a deep cut mechanic, to show authenticity, and build up a mythos of yourself, and for yourself. // Hemingway’s letters.
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How to write better conclusions
Use the last paragraph for something fun Watching the video is more fun, but here’s he transcript you can’t be bothered: The way you learn to write a conclusion to an essay or a paper or whatever kind of text you’re writing in school: just totally forget that. What you want to do when you…
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Don’t Click Here – I’ve gone go back and forth on this over the decades. Like every other good little HTML’er in the 90s, I would link the words in a sentence that indicated what the link went to. I kept doing this in the 2000s. But then in the 2010’s when we started treating…
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Writing Examples – Good for itself, and probably good for instructing The AI.
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Epic corporate jargon alternatives – Poetic alternatives to business bullshit jargon.
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Content Editing: How To Handle Major Rewrites – Pretty detailed guide to editing (corporate) content that isn’t good enough.
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Helen Garner on happiness: ‘It’s taken me 80 years to figure out it’s not a tranquil, sunlit realm’ – Project versus product for happiness. Also, living life by waste book/commonplace book – something I certainly can appreciate. (Bit it a ringer it being Helen Garner, but don’t let that stop you.)
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What they don’t tell you about conference MC script writing
A quick one today, no time to compile the links and stuff Writing good MC scripts for the keynote sessions I’ve been writing the MC script for our upcoming SpringOne conference. I was supposed to go be one of the MCs but had to cancel. It would have been awesome to know both sides of…
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Beware the Digital Whiteboard – The assertion: writing with whiteboarding/Sticky notes is not good, and can lead to leaky abstractions. Seem more like a “right tool for the job” thing, plus the usual garbage in, garbage out, regardless of the tool used to process the garbage.
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Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button – If you value writing by the time put into it (“thoughtfulness”), the AI stuff is going to mess with your judgements. // “Now consider all the other tasks where the final written output is important because it is a signal of the time spent…
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Sometimes, you need start with the explanation and see what opinion fits
These 5 tactics are good for a 13 year old student or an adult knowledge worker Here are the five test taking and essay test taking tips I shared with Cormac: If you’re doing the assignment in Google Docs, or whatever, of possible, copy and paste the questions into your document. This way, you have…
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“No, you don’t want to have to compare yourself to that”
If end up liking this episode, I’d appreciate some feedback with a simple click on the like/thumbs-up button, or just a comment that says so. Also, referring it to a friend and otherwise sharing it to drive more subscribers is much appreciated. I CRAVE THE VALIDATION. 2023 Resolution # Er is een fout opgetreden. JavaScript…
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