Focus

There is a lot of related but irrelevant stuff in things people say. That's what the word focus means -- to prune away the irrelevant.

Petty Little Things

Working on a post for the economics blog. My technique is to read and revise from start to finish. At the moment, I'm stuck in the title. My working title for the post was

The Myth in 'The Myth of the Great Moderation'
But the first word in that title tells the reader there are no other myths in the thing, just the one I'm writing about. I don't want to say that. So I changed the title to

A Myth in 'The Myth of the Great Moderation'
But now it tells the reader that the writer is a wuss. In this form the title is weak. So hey, take the word out:

Myth in 'The Myth of the Great Moderation'
That's not bad.

It'll be great when I finally get past the title so I can start actually revising the post!