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.

Thursday, September 25, 2025

"Resilience" is used about 2000 times more often than "hump day"

... in Google Books, that is. The usage curves are far from identical, yet strikingly similar:


Another odd thing: Use of the word "resilience" increased persistently through the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression, and the Second World War -- in other words, through good times and bad.

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