Patricia
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Patricia
Lack of courage sabotages more people than lack of ability. Don't beat yourself before you start.
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Each time you visit, thoughts that don’t kill you will make you stronger. But there’s always the chance that you’ll think that one thought that can break your mind.
Life rules won’t prevent that happening, but they’ll make sure you’re dressed in a dignified way for it. As Woody Allen said, eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for
... See morePractical 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.
I... See more
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
- complicated ideas take more energy to transmit than simple ones
- for every complex idea there are a large number of stupid copies
- people can often understand things without being able to articulate them, so when a person is helped by a complex meme, they will often reproduce and transmit a simpler variant of the original complex meme
- for some... See more
- for every complex idea there are a large number of stupid copies
- people can often understand things without being able to articulate them, so when a person is helped by a complex meme, they will often reproduce and transmit a simpler variant of the original complex meme
- for some... See more
Mark P Xu Neyer • Every Complex Idea Has a Million Stupid Cousins
The definition of hell is: Your last day on Earth, the person you became meets the person you could have become.” - Dan Sullivan
