Francesco
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Francesco
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
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Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
gilest.org: Clarity hacks
hard to acknowledge but so so true
say you’re writing a book, aren’t you afraid that the words you’re saying won’t be true anymore once the book is out and you’re reading it back? Is anyone else also afraid to say things out loud, especially about your own work and creative practice that won’t be true to you in a month, a year, a decade’s time?
The goal of the offering map is to clarify what the service provides to the users, detailing the value proposition into more specific clusters of features. There’s not a standard model for this tool: the offering could be described with words, images or through a simple graph.
Offering Map | Service Design Tools
I think this is how it’s called
I have found it useful to make the distinction between consistency in my own process and consistency in my output. Sometimes, I need both. Sometimes, I need one and not the other. Sometimes, I have to let them both go.
The word “sometimes,” in itself, implies inconsistency. I think the key for me is to operate with intention: To ensure that my... See more
The word “sometimes,” in itself, implies inconsistency. I think the key for me is to operate with intention: To ensure that my... See more
I feel even more broken after reading this
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.... See more
We hate other people when latency becomes intolerable. As soon as a task is about speed, other humans feel like an irritating inconvenience. The Uber driver’s small talk annoys us. We wish we were in a Waymo. The cashier’s tip screen feels like a micro-ransom when all we want is a bottle of water.... See more
Why We Want Robots at Work but Humans in Art
have no words to describe how accurate this is
