Making them up as I go (2)

1. Tell the truth.
2. Entice, or fail.
3. To emphasize, summarize.
4. If it ain't short, it don't work.
5. Be clear.


And so I don't forget:
Don't explain. Just tell a story.
Don't argue. Just say things that make sense.
Expect people to be bored by the writing, and shorten it.
Make the wording easy to take.

Remove Loose Ends -- the interesting one-liners that go nowhere.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

The organization of it

Developing a new post for the economics blog. I've seen a few links lately, saying debt is an inefficient tool for growth -- that a dollar of extra debt produces less than a dollar of extra output; less and less as the years go by. I want to write about that idea and those links.

I collect the links into a new post on my development blog. Nine links. Maybe some duplication; I'll work that out later.

What to do with it? No idea. I turn off the computer and watch The Social Network again. No particular relevance to the choice of movie; it wasn't even my choice.

After the movie, thinking about those links. What to do with them.

I can find interesting excerpts in each of them, all saying pretty much the same thing, I expect.

But everybody has a different resolution to the problem.

That's it: Two parts.

Part One: General agreement, everybody says the same thing.

Part Two: Different solutions. Organized somehow to make mine stand out.

Definitely, group all the general agreement stuff first, and then group all the solutions stuff next. Definitely not, statement-and-solution for each.

This will make an effective presentation, I think.