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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
What I am doing here is taking the reader by the hand and leading him exactly where I want him to go. It seems like a small point and, maybe it is, but is the little touches like this that keeps the letter flowing, the reader moving along, and, it relieves him of the burden of trying to figure out what he is supposed to do when he finishes reading
... See moreBond Halbert • The Boron Letters
broader in scope
Christopher Bugaj • The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!
He’d be nothing. He wouldn’t even be 571. The real authorities could turn him into anything at all.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
prophet, myself. Among
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
David Ogilvy’s 1982 advice on how to write
Including point 4, that using jargon is the “hallmark of a pretentious ass” https://t.co/RDRRMb1KsI
sepaciating
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
So write with a combination of short, medium, and long sentences.