Adam Durst
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Adam Durst
It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
So what is The Inverted Pyramid, and how will that help?
This writing structure allows you to write first drafts within minutes using fill-in-the-blank prompts.
It also captures readers’ attention immediately and keeps them engaged until the end.
Here’s how it goes.
This writing structure allows you to write first drafts within minutes using fill-in-the-blank prompts.
It also captures readers’ attention immediately and keeps them engaged until the end.
Here’s how it goes.
- You give us the most important part of the article by answering these questions: Who?
Maya Sayvanova • How Journalists Write So Much, So Fast
New writers make one big mistake.
They think great writing is about writing.
Nope. I mean, writing is a part of it. But there’s SO MUCH MORE.
Great writing is about:
They think great writing is about writing.
Nope. I mean, writing is a part of it. But there’s SO MUCH MORE.
Great writing is about:
- Strategy.
- Structure.
- Research.
- Editing.
- Hooks & headlines.
Maya Sayvanova • How Journalists Write So Much, So Fast
Stoics do not seek to have the answer for every question or a plan for every contingency. Yet they’re also not worried. Why? Because they have confidence that they’ll be able to adapt and change with the circumstances.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation