These brief videos are worth watching: On negotiation On using writing to help you think On “vanity metrics” and creating worthwhile content On specialisation vs… Read More »Tim Ferriss on negotiation, using writing to think, specialisation and some other stuff
Here’s rather a long extract – one I heartily agree with – to wet your whistle. Then go and get the book. I have nothing… Read More »Ben Dreyer on Good Writing and the Nonrules of English
I could spend a long time typing out great lines from this book: it’s helpful, funny, and contains just the right amount of snark.* If… Read More »Recommendation: Dreyer’s English
Outside a close circle of family and friends, the voice you respond in is rarely (just) your own – it’s also the voice of your… Read More »Responsive (3): Good tone
If you could write a book – any kind of book – with a group of other people, who would they be? What would the… Read More »Just one chapter
Here are a couple of useful tips from Tim Ferriss on episode #394: 1. Record yourself talking This is true for skill improvement whether it’s… Read More »Tim Ferriss on improving your public speaking
This post is part of the working draft of the DriverlessCrocodile Toolkit (read more here). I’d love comments, links to resources related to the theme,… Read More »DriverlessBookadile: Contents v.0.2
One my my 2019 resolutions was to completely re-order DriverlessCrocodile and make it easier to find stuff by theme. I’d also like to collect the… Read More »The DriverlessBookodile roadmap
This is an interesting piece from REDEF on what happens next in the competition for our ears, eyeballs and thoughts, with a link to a… Read More »Recommendation: Joe Marchese on the attention economy
All art, therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the artistic aim when expressing itself in written words must also make its appeal through the… Read More »Joseph Conrad on art, writing and reaching your audience