/* Code Comments */12 posts tagged with "writing"
writing as a sales process
2022-11-28
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I’m reading Megan McArdle’s The Up Side of Down and her detour into the psychology of the unemployed has me thinking. Specifically about how…
the hemingway stop and other applications
2022-11-28
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The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are…
be the verb
2022-11-28
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Be the Verb “If you want to be the noun, you have to do the verb” - Austin Kleon When I came across this Austin Kleon quote recently, it hit…
power of prepositions
2022-11-28
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I was listening to Bart Wilson on A Curious Task (link). Around the 46 minute mark, he starts talking about the phrase “to have property in…
writing one sentence per line
2022-11-28
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I recently came across Derek Sivers’ article “writing one sentence per line”. The advice has completely changed the way that I write. Mostly…
a website as a digital garden
2022-11-28
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For as long as I’ve been writing words on the internet, I’ve connected the words that I create in a paginated chronological format. This is…
bootstrapping notes
2022-11-28
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A while back, I was working on a project called (My October 2020 checking). It didn’t get very far, but I learned a lot. One of the…
on deciding where a blog lives
2022-11-28
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I don’t normally participate in forum discussions. I couldn’t help but weigh into a discussion about strategies for a tech blog. The concern…
writing in public
2022-11-28
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When I publish a note to my blog, what’s my goal? My primary motivation for writing is to learn. That’s why these notes are for myself first…
writing is just the beginning: the tradeoff between clarity and exploration with writing and conversing
2022-11-28
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But you’re never going to achieve what you want to, Mr. Caro, if you don’t stop thinking with your fingers. R.P. Blackmur via ‘Working…
why write?
2022-11-28
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In his annual letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos answered a question that had been following him around for twenty years: what does Day…
acknowledge then correct; skip the judgment
2022-11-28
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I had wanted to write something smart tonight. The topic was all picked out, I had researched it, and I’d even thought of an anecdote about…