ASotREG

The first line is the most important.

Too many otherwise smart people bury the most valuable part of the message at the end. Delete everything but what's necessary.

Good writing is clear, conversational, and as short as possible.

This is at the heart of an idea called Kidlin’s Law (origin unknown):

“If you can write down a problem clearly, you’ve already solved half of it.”

Writing is a powerful tool for problem-solving, because writing is thinking. You cannot write clearly if you aren’t thinking clearly.

In a professional context, writing forces you to simplify. Break a

One can even argue that the modern corporation and work arrangements are tools for the suppression of intelligence: For turning humans into small interchangeable parts, performing narrow tasks. The corporation as a whole is productive, but every component within it is designed for and encouraged not to think too much in order to maintain the

Novelist Anne Lamott on the power of reading:

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a

Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about.

The Thinker & The Doer (Time Onsite & in market)

“My observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person. And if we really go back and we examine, you know, did Leonardo have a guy off to the side that was thinking five years out in the