Kojo
@kojobaffoe
Storyteller, Writer, Content Strategist, Freelance Editor, Author: Listen To Your Footsteps, Host: Listen To Your Footsteps Podcast, African, Father
Kojo
kojobaffoe.com
People naturally remember musical language, and I would encourage writers to inject their prose with a bit of music. When you’re writing, think about repetition and variety. Crescendos and rests. Pace and punctuation. Read your work out loud, and feel the rhythm of the words in your voice.
Derek Thompson • Why Simple Is Smart
READING: THE TERM is as generous and imprecise as “love.” So often it means more than just the word-by-word deciphering of the printed page.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
It’s difficult to create a subscription service to monetize a podcast because there are so many podcasts that deliver lots of great content for free
Nathan Baschez • Journalism, Subscriptions, and Podcasting with Li Jin and Nathan Baschez
Morning Pages is another tactic for getting out of your own way like this – a ritual, in a deep sense of that word, because what's key is the observance, not harnessing that observance for some particular outcome. Everyone should have one or two such rituals, if you ask me, to help unclench one's agitated grip on the world and to encounter reality
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Three pages a day
I’ve been thinking about the enduring, perhaps increasing currency of personal recommendations (practically artisanal craft now if you think about it!) as well as the value of connoisseurship and curation in a culture where unthinking automation has left us feeling drowned in a deluge of content.
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
I suspect that’s the core appeal of all the... See more
well lol i finally got laid off...but on the bright side.......
In our busy and distracted society, deep reading is increasingly rare. Deep reading changes people.
You can’t think your way into a better life, you have to live it.