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Write what you feel
Advice for the creative writer, yes. But the student? My manager is taking a summer class and his teacher told the class, “Don’t write down what I say. Write down what you feel about what I say.” Interesting advice for a note-taker who’s thinking about regurgitating the content for the next test. My reporting background …
Links 18-Jul-08
Even a tech writer learns to use dashed lines for impromptu diagrams, but it takes a designer to delineate more of its uses. (I probably got this link from the essential xblog, which is a must-read in my RSS library.) Convenience and impermanence. But look at the size of that keyboard! And her happy smile! …
The bottom line is that you should never spend more than $1500 on art unless you know at least roughly what it is worth at auction. One of life’s good rules of thumb. Marginal Revolution: Do not buy art on cruise ships
Attempting to sell people something for four hundred pounds that merely enables them to read something that they won’t buy at one hundredth of the price seems to me a thankless task. The Penguin Blog: Special Guest Post – Nick Hornby on ebooks
Publishing has only two indispensable participants: authors and readers. As with music, any technology that brings these two groups closer makes the whole industry more efficient—but hurts those who benefit from the distance between them. Book publishing in America | Unbound | Economist.com
MAKING HOT FUDGE
Your hot fudge is ready when you can write your name in the surface with a spoon without the letters disappearing before you finish writing. Submitted by: Robin Masson, attorney and law professor,… MAKING HOT FUDGE
TIMING A GIG
If your musical engagement is less than two hours long, you will spend as much time setting up and taking down equipment as you will playing music. Submitted by: Ellen Klaver, musician, Boulder,… TIMING A GIG
Mark Hurst’s “Bit Literacy”
Mark Hurst’s book Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload attacks a problem that, of all people, my Alexander Technique therapist mentioned to me today. She said that evolution has granted our bodies numerous ways to deal with few or no calories, but no way — except obesity — to deal …
LYING
When lying, don’t explain too much. And odd numbers are more believable than even numbers. Submitted by: Terry Larimore, Writer and Therapist, Houston, TX, USA LYING
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