Where Ideas Are Distilled Into Something Useful
(Yet another post from my old amazon internal blog.) Imagine a sports coach choosing drills for an upcoming practice. One drill has the team split up into pairs, and each pair practices a certain move, switching roles each try. In another drill, the team lines up and each member practices a move alone while the […]
(This is another lightly edited post from my old Amazon internal blog.) Your slides are the least of your worries Most contemporary articles about presentation spend at least some time answering the question “What should I put on my slides?” I say forget your slides for now. They’re nearly irrelevant compared to what I claim […]
(I wrote this years ago and originally published it on my internal Amazon blog. I’ve sent it to various folks over the years, but wanted to give it a permanent home on the internet.) Why writing matters Clear writing is clear thinking. Conversely, muddy writing implies muddy thinking. Your readers know this instinctively — […]