Tag: writing
All the articles with the tag "writing".
Why does Sam Altman switch notebooks every two weeks?
Working memory holds about three new things for about thirty seconds. Writing is how you get past that limit, and how you keep readers from hitting theirs.
I picked the worst possible pen name
My pen name loses on Google to a manga character and a decade-old scandal, so I'm giving it up.
The Feynman technique: write it out and see what you don't know
Richard Feynman's four-step study method, why it works on memory, and how writing catches the knowledge you only think you have.
Why the teacher remembers and the students forget
Retrieval and deep encoding are what make anything stick, and writing happens to be the easiest way to do both.
I quit my job and blogged for a year
Post 51. Why I walked out of a developer job to study thinking and persuasion, and what a year of writing every Sunday did and didn't give me.
How to write a story that always lands - 4
Fatigue and skepticism stop most stories before they start, and this last post in the series covers the three emotions and four narratives that get past both.
Five techniques that make your writing stronger right away
Five techniques from Mentalist DaiGo, folded into a three-stage process you can run on whatever you are writing today.
Three strategies that shake a reader
Desire, relationship, and difference: three strategies from Mentalist DaiGo for writing that moves a reader instead of just informing one.
You don't write to be read
The first of three posts on Mentalist DaiGo's book on persuasive writing: we write to make people act, and the thing that does the moving is imagination.
Revise this way and the writing comes alive
The rest of the four-step revision method: read like a reader, name what feels off, write alternatives and pick one, and know when to stop.