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Write Like You Mean It: Clarity as Power

In 1946, George Orwell published an essay called "Politics and the English Language" that contained six rules for writing clearly. Nearly eighty years later, those six rules remain the best writing advice ever put on paper. Not because Orwell was uniquely brilliant, though he was, but because the

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Write Like You Mean It: Clarity as Power

In 1946, George Orwell published an essay called "Politics and the English Language" that contained six rules for writing clearly. Nearly eighty years later, those six rules remain the best writing advice ever put on paper. Not because Orwell was uniquely brilliant, though he was, but because the

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The First Draft Is Supposed to Be Terrible: How Writing Actually Works

There's a myth about writing that nearly everyone believes. The myth goes like this: good writers sit down, stare at the screen for a moment, and then genius flows out. The words come easily because the writer is talented. The first thing they write is close to the

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The First Draft Is Supposed to Be Terrible: How Writing Actually Works

There's a myth about writing that nearly everyone believes. The myth goes like this: good writers sit down, stare at the screen for a moment, and then genius flows out. The words come easily because the writer is talented. The first thing they write is close to the

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How to Argue Without Fighting: Rhetoric as a Life Skill

Every argument you've ever won or lost used one of three tools. You probably didn't know which one you were using, and you almost certainly didn't know which one the other person was using on you. That's the difference between someone who

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How to Argue Without Fighting: Rhetoric as a Life Skill

Every argument you've ever won or lost used one of three tools. You probably didn't know which one you were using, and you almost certainly didn't know which one the other person was using on you. That's the difference between someone who

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Reading Is Downloading Someone Else's Lifetime Into Your Brain

A book represents somewhere between two and ten years of someone's concentrated thinking, compressed into roughly eight hours of reading. That's the exchange rate. No course, no video, no conversation offers anything close to that ratio. When you read a book, you're getting the

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Reading Is Downloading Someone Else's Lifetime Into Your Brain

A book represents somewhere between two and ten years of someone's concentrated thinking, compressed into roughly eight hours of reading. That's the exchange rate. No course, no video, no conversation offers anything close to that ratio. When you read a book, you're getting the

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The Unfair Advantage Nobody Talks About: Why Writing Is a Superpower

English class feels like it's about old books. It's actually about the single most leveraged skill you can develop. And the strange thing is, almost nobody frames it that way while you're sitting in the classroom. Here's a number that should change

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The Unfair Advantage Nobody Talks About: Why Writing Is a Superpower

English class feels like it's about old books. It's actually about the single most leveraged skill you can develop. And the strange thing is, almost nobody frames it that way while you're sitting in the classroom. Here's a number that should change