One of my more successful routines while teaching English to German business personnel was to take a sentence, any sentence, supplied by the client and reduce it, one superfluous word after another, until it was impossible to eliminate any further words without changing the meaning. Especially useful for speechwriting, I found.
Agree with you on many of the books you list. I’m trying to read The Karamazov Brothers , not really enjoying it or for that matter , understand it. I used to have a 30 page rule ... if I couldn’t get into a book after 30 pages, I’d discard it. But I’m trying to persevere in this case , dunno why really. Perhaps there will be an epiphany towards the end. Or maybe I just don’t have the concentration span anymore (which is true)
When promoting the readable, ignore the pseudo-intellectual.
On occasional advancement of discourse, saturated with circumspection and deeply proficient, but manifestly authored, draw upon inner-resources and reflect that an impression riven from the immediate thing possessed in fact, as opposed to a thing about which one is still speculating, may be worth a brace in the chaparral and the intellectual obscurant may safely be rendered secondary in one’s estimation.
Somewhat related, whenever I've tried asking ChatGPT for help with my writing it ends up picking sentence structures and words that "aren't me" and my writing communicates less clearly
Sometimes a ChatGPTification leave my writing sounding like the character Moss from the IT crowd, especially if talking about technology or coding.
In the end, found the AI more of a hindrance than a help, but I do worry about the thousands of emails, comments, instant messages and even books which will have been written yet contain such little information.
The tragedy of modern times; short slogans, memes and tweets get Democrats, Socialists, Marxists, Labour and communists elected, which is why China is pushing TikTok. Long essays butter no parsnips! Competition for you Dominic, Jordan is concise here > https://www.dossier.today/p/what-we-learned-at-davos-2024-global
There’s a scene in the film, The Hours, where Virginia Woolf’s character realises that publishers would select writers if they used words the publisher didn’t know.
There’s a saying in marketing: simplify for free, complicate for profit. I wonder did all those on the free path just give up because it wasn’t making them any money.
You wrote you are writing about gold go to roadtoroota.com Bix Weir is a silver guy becauses he has done the research and found silver is finite and we're being lied to about shortages of gold. Powell telegramed/communicated to DC of his find of gold artifacts in the caves of he Grand Canyon and was in an article in I believe th NY Times. The Boston Federal Resrve wrote the cartoon Road to Roota while Green Span served in the federal resservation and wrote the algorythms for the fininancial system. Keep up the good work as we need writers such as you to expose the truth of the matter.
One of my more successful routines while teaching English to German business personnel was to take a sentence, any sentence, supplied by the client and reduce it, one superfluous word after another, until it was impossible to eliminate any further words without changing the meaning. Especially useful for speechwriting, I found.
Agree with you on many of the books you list. I’m trying to read The Karamazov Brothers , not really enjoying it or for that matter , understand it. I used to have a 30 page rule ... if I couldn’t get into a book after 30 pages, I’d discard it. But I’m trying to persevere in this case , dunno why really. Perhaps there will be an epiphany towards the end. Or maybe I just don’t have the concentration span anymore (which is true)
When promoting the readable, ignore the pseudo-intellectual.
On occasional advancement of discourse, saturated with circumspection and deeply proficient, but manifestly authored, draw upon inner-resources and reflect that an impression riven from the immediate thing possessed in fact, as opposed to a thing about which one is still speculating, may be worth a brace in the chaparral and the intellectual obscurant may safely be rendered secondary in one’s estimation.
So very true. “I’m sorry my report is a bit late, boss. I had to write it shorter”..
Somewhat related, whenever I've tried asking ChatGPT for help with my writing it ends up picking sentence structures and words that "aren't me" and my writing communicates less clearly
Sometimes a ChatGPTification leave my writing sounding like the character Moss from the IT crowd, especially if talking about technology or coding.
In the end, found the AI more of a hindrance than a help, but I do worry about the thousands of emails, comments, instant messages and even books which will have been written yet contain such little information.
Something to ponder,
I’ve not a clue who you are, what your history is, truly I don’t know why I should read your writing. Yet I do.
It’s the clarity, inherent truth, and perhaps your personality that I find value.
Congrats on finding a new customer by having solid values and living them.
Absolutely agree with this. Fifty percent of professional joke writing is spent removing fifty percent of the words.
The tragedy of modern times; short slogans, memes and tweets get Democrats, Socialists, Marxists, Labour and communists elected, which is why China is pushing TikTok. Long essays butter no parsnips! Competition for you Dominic, Jordan is concise here > https://www.dossier.today/p/what-we-learned-at-davos-2024-global
There’s a scene in the film, The Hours, where Virginia Woolf’s character realises that publishers would select writers if they used words the publisher didn’t know.
I wonder if there’s a modern equivalent...
I find Jordan Peterson’s books hard to read.
Compare that to how he speaks in interview (ignoring that he’s often baited) and it’s engaging and compelling.
Not sure why he doesn’t write the same way as he speaks.
There’s a saying in marketing: simplify for free, complicate for profit. I wonder did all those on the free path just give up because it wasn’t making them any money.
You wrote you are writing about gold go to roadtoroota.com Bix Weir is a silver guy becauses he has done the research and found silver is finite and we're being lied to about shortages of gold. Powell telegramed/communicated to DC of his find of gold artifacts in the caves of he Grand Canyon and was in an article in I believe th NY Times. The Boston Federal Resrve wrote the cartoon Road to Roota while Green Span served in the federal resservation and wrote the algorythms for the fininancial system. Keep up the good work as we need writers such as you to expose the truth of the matter.