Jason Fried says in his post The Class I’d Like To Teach: It would be a writing course. Every assignment would be delivered in five versions: A three page version, a one page version, a three paragraph version, a one paragraph version, and a one sentence version. I don’t care about the topic. I care about [...]
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Jason Fried on editing well
Posted: 17 June 2011 in Books and WritingTags: 37signals, Ernest Hemingway, iphone, Jason Fried, Jil Sander, literature, Schindler House, writing
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Short story: The Animal Mummies Wish To Thank The Following
Posted: 2 April 2011 in Books and WritingA clever, funny short story by Ramona Ausubel begins like this: “For generous donations in support of their preservation, the animal mummies wish to thank the Institute for Unforbidden Geology, the Society for Extreme Egyptology, the Secret Chambers of the Sanctuary of Thoth Club, and President Hosni Mubarak, who may seem to have been around [...]
Mixed feelings, mostly despair, on the closing of Borders bookstores in San Francisco
Posted: 19 February 2011 in Books and WritingTags: Borders, Independent bookstore
Borders is closing all of its downtown San Francisco stores as part of its reorganization (in bankruptcy). They had already closed the store here in south of Market (SOMA) last year, and now with the closure of the large store on Union Square and the smaller one in the Westfield Centre a few blocks away [...]
Eat Pray Love travel guides to Bali, Rome and Naples
Posted: 18 August 2010 in Books and Writing, TravelTags: Travel
I have just posted a series of travel guides to Bali, Rome and Naples, following the footsteps of Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat Pray Love”, now showing in the cinemas with Julia Roberts in the role of Gilbert. I went to Bali in September last year, Rome in October, Naples and the Amalfi Coast a [...]
“Writing, before it is anything else, is a way of clarifying one’s thoughts. This is obviously true of forms such as the diary, which are inherently solitary. But even those of us who write for publication can conclude, once we have clarified certain thoughts, that these thoughts are not especially valuable, or are not entirely [...]
