Tag: writing
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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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Some “Coherent Nonsense” for the weekend
Current status: I’ve got a good, old fashioned cold. I’ve forgotten how weird it is: you just find yourself sort of staring at nothing. And the snot. I didn’t have time to self-promote my content. Next time! Also, you know where to find it. English Class Essays, Insider Sales Emails, Webinar Landing Page Copy –…
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Inspiration for developing a style and aesthetics
Looking at what writing style is and how to weave it into your own thinking. Scroll to the end to see how to get all the Nutella out of the jar. Inspiration for developing a style and aesthetics “We hired you for what you know, not what you don’t know.” This was the best career…
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How to write better copy for the while “digital transformation” urgency, “change or die” thing
Two pieces of writing advice for when your goal is to communicate, not (just) entertain. Scroll to the bottom for a Yacht Rock playlist. Hold the reader’s hand Here’s a piece of writing advice that seems annoying at first, but is especially needed in most non-fiction books: tell people what you’re about to tell them,…
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🗂 Link: Reporter’s Toolkit
If you know, say, that the Tibetan monks’ ceremonial drumsticks were bamboo, yellow, and curved like carpetbeaters, you convey a lot more than if you say they were weird and fantastical. If one monk wore bright red-and-orange striped socks under his robe and another a watch with an expandable band, you say more than if…
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Link: People read books for different reasons, beyond entertainment & learning
One thing I’ve learned, writing books and then talking to people about those books and others, is that people read for wildly different reasons. I don’t only mean they read different books for different reasons – “I like mysteries, because they keep my brain occupied”; “I like fantasy novels, because they offer me a world…
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🗂 Fiction vs. Nonfiction
> The only difference is that with nonfiction, every fact in the book must refer to a document or a source outside of the book. www.advicetowriters.com/home/2019…
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Link: Writing addiction
“I support your taking up tennis if you really want to play tennis,” he said. “But if you want to play tennis in order to write about tennis, I’m against it.” Original source: Writing addiction
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #38
I’ve been in this quiet before the business-travel shit-storm for the past two weeks. Next week it slowly starts up. In the meantime, it’s given me time to get back to writing on the cloud native book I’ve been working on it. There’s links to some excerpts in progress below. Also, I made the entire…
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Link: Don’t Have Children
“After this novel, he patiently explained, there would be a second one to write, and second novels were notoriously thornier and more unwieldy than debuts. Following the inevitable sophomore cock-up, if I were lucky and stubborn in the proper measure, I would go on to tackle the magisterial third and fourth novels, and then the…
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Link: Jeff Bezos admits Amazon has ‘the weirdest meeting culture you will ever encounter’, Business Insider
In the letter, he explained that writing a brilliant, long memo requires the writer to understand the subject well. It also requires the writer to “improve results through the simple act of teaching scope.” By that he means doing a great job requires effort, not speed. “A great memo probably should take a week or…
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Link: The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent?
“I had experienced being judged as a mother, when I periodically left my son with my husband from the age of six months – he is six now – to go away to write. I only departed for a week at a time. But who knows what I might have done had I lived in…
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Link: Productivity in 2017: What we learned from analyzing 225 million hours
Writers work in the morning, coders in the afternoon. Link to original
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Creative People Say No
parislemon: Kevin Ashton: Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. We are not taught to say “no.” We are taught not…
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