Writing
Clear writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide.
The difference between a good adverb and a bad one?
Bad adverbs are implied. Good adverbs twist meaning.
Text is the most efficient communication technology. By orders of magnitude... A t every step of communication technology, textual encoding comes first, everything else after. Because it's vastly cheaper on a symbol-by-symbol basis.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
If you’ve ever felt hesitant to write because you’re “not sure what to say,” consider this: the act of writing itself often reveals what you didn’t know you knew. It’s a tool for discovery, a way to explore ideas and refine thoughts. Writing isn’t about knowing all the answers in advance; it’s about trusting that the answers will come through the p
... See moreAkindele Davies • Writing as Self-Discovery: Embracing the Process Over the Outcome
To discover what I think . It’s easy to fool yourself in a journal by writing open-ended, rambling thoughts without any conclusion or action. But writing for an unknown audience requires more thought and rigor. I have to open my mind to the variety of perspectives others might bring to the subject, which helps me avoid tunnel vision and insular th
... See moreRobert Breen • Why Blogs Matter
text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
Text can convey ideas with a precisely controlled level of ambiguity and precision, implied context and elaborated content, unmatched by anything else. It is not a coincidence that all of literature and poetry, history and philosophy, mathematics, logic, programming and engineering rely on textual encodings for their ideas.
graydon2 • Always Bet on Text
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Sophie Tahran in “Designing with Words” at SmashingConf Freiburg
To find my voice . It took staring down my 50th birthday to believe I had a valuable perspective to share. My writing to that point had been private musings in a journal or business memos.