One reason I challenged myself to blog every day of 2023 was to practice my writing. I write for work—but not every day. And certainly not like I used to write for work, when I worked for Oxford Dictionaries, and was constantly developing new blog content. When I write for work, it's usually project narratives … Continue reading On not practicing
Author: T Coe
On fever dreams
Aside from intentional intoxication—alcohol, marijuana, or the like—there is nothing so destabilizing as a fever dream. Normally, there's a dividing line between dreams and consciousness—the oddity of a dream shatters on waking, shards suddenly incomprehensible, impossible to consider real. Not so with fever dreams. When the brains runs hot, I suppose the capacity to crack … Continue reading On fever dreams
On 7 things from last week (4/24/23)
Nuggets playoff game. Boy, NBA playoff games are a good time. (Especially when you’re in the nosebleeds with the random guys who like to shout insults every other play.) E-bikes. I’ve ridden a Lyft e-bike before…but it paled in comparison a legit commuter e-bike. Those things can FLY. The Avalanche (Owen). Listened to this sad-sack … Continue reading On 7 things from last week (4/24/23)
On regression to the mean
I’ve been thinking a lot about regression to the mean. When I first joined my current firm in 2018, business was solid. But over the next three years—including through COVID—business boomed. Staff grew by 50%, revenue doubled, bonuses were big. And then—things slowed down. It wasn’t as if thing went into a tailspin, but it … Continue reading On regression to the mean
On using ChatGPT to fight generic content
As we get deeper and deeper into a life with generative AI, I’m finding it increasingly hard to keep up. For instance, there’s the apparent whiplash happening with college professors: At first fearful that ChatGPT spelled the “end of the essay” (which it still may), professors have realized that ChatGPT can help them with their … Continue reading On using ChatGPT to fight generic content
On hindsight bias
"I knew it all along." But did you? Inspired by my poking around cognitive biases, I've picked up Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow for the third time. (I swear—this time I'll finish it!) One of the biases you encounter in the section on "overconfidence" is the hindsight bias. Hindsight bias hardly requires a definition—we … Continue reading On hindsight bias
On alliteration
As a device, alliteration is a pretty obvious one. Read a passage aloud (or even silently) and it will jump out at you. It's hard to miss a string of similar sounding words. Alliteration can delight—but also irritate—the reader. It's a delicate device that wears out its welcome pretty quickly. That last sentence? I wrote … Continue reading On alliteration
On moments I love in songs I like
When tasked by a friend last year to compile a playlist of my "top "top 50" songs—a worthy and fun exercise!—there was one segment of songs in my listening history that befuddled me: Songs that I mostly liked as a whole—but that I loved one moment of. It's interesting to listen to these songs in … Continue reading On moments I love in songs I like
On the finite game of pursuits
I started skimming James P. Carse's treatise Finite and Infinite Games the other week and a thought jumped out at me: An RFP is a finite game—played with the infinite game of our business. Rather than attempt my own summary of this distinction between finite and infinite games, I'll let Carse explain: There are at … Continue reading On the finite game of pursuits
On 7 things from last week (4/17/23)
That episode of Succession. Part of me knew this was coming—but what a standout episode of TV. Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton. As someone who does a lot of layout, I'm embarrassed to say that I never really understood the baseline. Alvvays (Alvvays). Better late than never! Finally got around to listening to the … Continue reading On 7 things from last week (4/17/23)
Taylor Coe 