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.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Ya gotta love to write


My economy-related posts usually come to me in quick flashes. I try to write them down quickly, at least the key insight and a few of the explorations flooding my brain. It always takes longer then, to find the numbers or develop the graphs that will confirm or confound the initial flash.

And there is always the question to be resolved, of whether the quick flash was an insight or a glitch.