This week, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released their plain-language standard for written communication. This marks the first internationally accepted statement of what clear communication means. The movement towards […]
One of us (Alex) is currently on a writing retreat for academics. Here’s the setup: we have a room full of early-, mid- and late-career academics, we’re all on a […]
Clients sometimes tell us that they are “not writers”. What they usually mean is that they’re not looking for suggestion on how to take their writing to the next level—they […]
As mentioned before, there’s a series shaping up in our minds about Large Language Models (LLMs) and writing! We don’t pretend to have the answers for how writers should adjust […]
Here in Canada, May Day is a relatively neglectezd holiday because the labour movement is in a historic rut. But we think it’s important to recognize its contribution to improving […]
We have written about writers’ difficulties in quite a few places because our clients often face these challenges. This is an enormous topic, spanning culture, psychology, theories of education, social […]
The discourse around large language models (LLMs) continues to pick up steam, and shows no signs of slowing down. Just this week, we have the launch of GPT-4, which will […]
Following from last week’s post on deep work, we’ve been thinking a bit more about attention. Skill in writing is, among other things, skill with subtleties of attention. So let’s […]
Elsewhere, we have written about the qualities of draft -1, draft 0, and draft 1. We offer these because starting to write can feel very different day-to-day, and sometimes minute-by-minute. […]
In the reflection that started this year we talked about the importance of kindness in achieving your goals. Being kinder to ourselves is wonderful aspiration, but often the specifics of […]