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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
famous thought experiment of trying to build the world’s greatest car by assembling the world’s greatest car parts. We connect the engine of a Ferrari, the brakes of a Porsche, the suspension of a BMW, the body of a Volvo. “What we get, of course, is nothing close to a great car; we get a pile of very expensive junk.”
Atul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
End with something funny or personal.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
New Yorker financial columnist James Surowiecki, who points out that aggregating the opinions of multiple people often yields an accurate analysis of a challenging situation—even if none of the people is an “expert.” In one example, a missing submarine is found in the
Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, Katie Yezzi • Practice Perfect
What it effectively says is: going quite a bit faster when you’re going slowly is a really big gain. Going very fast when you’re already going fast is the action of a dickhead.