There's a classic scene in Police Squad! where Drebin walks into a guy's office while his back is turned. When the man realizes he doesn't know Drebin, he says, "Who are you and how'd you get in here?" Drebin says, "I'm…
(This article originally appeared in Medium.) Creativity in a generally unimaginative, bureaucratic setting like an enterprise business or a university can be like sculpting in reverse. It is a process by which a painstaking work of art gradually has the…
At a recent conference called Confab Central, which is oriented toward content strategy, I watched a presentation by a woman named Becky Spurbeck, who talked about simplifying writing. She covered things like reading score, and pointed out that the average…