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10 top writing tips and the psychology behind them
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From 2015 · There are plenty of folks happy to tell you how to write better, just as any doctor will tell you to “eat right and exercise.” But changing your writing (or eating) habits only happens when you understand why you do what you do. I can help you with that. That proposal or email you wrote must now compete for … Continue reading 10 top writing tips and the psychology behind them →
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We Analyzed 100 Million Headlines. Here’s What We Learned (New Research)
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From 2017 · Write better headlines with tactics from our analysis of 100 million headlines. Discover the best headline trigrams for Facebook and Twitter and much more.
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The Content Marketing Handbook
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From 2016 · A 30,000+ word blog post about how to write about information and make it spread. And something new from us: The Priceonomics Data Studio.
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UX Writing: How to do it like Google with this powerful checklist
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10 min read · From 2017 · Notes from Google I/O 2017 on choosing the right words
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Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence
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~15 min read · 2019-10-06 · Learning to write is learning to think, because writing is thinking. They are two peas in a powerful pod. This article goes over my writing process, focused on minimizing the activation energy to get…
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How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and Writing
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20+ min read · 2020-02-04 · I long ago stopped reading books on note-taking. They were always too vague and boring, full of platitudes that had little to do with the world outside academia. I especially avoided “how-to” style…
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A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it
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4 min read · 2020-02-27 · There is nothing more sustaining to long-term creative work than time and space – and these things cost money
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How to Write Usefully
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10 min read · 2020-02-21 · February 2020What should an essay be? Many people would say persuasive. That's what a lot of us were taught essays should be. But I think we can aim for something more ambitious: that an essay should…
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