In conversation you can get away with all kinds of vagueness and nonsense, often without even realizing it. But there's something about putting your thoughts on paper that forces you to get down to specifics. —Lee Iacocca I've always been impressed by people who can speak in paragraphs. You know, the person who can reel … Continue reading You can’t get away with vagueness and nonsense in writing
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A return to memo-writing & the “vagueness and nonsense” of conversation
In the past few weeks, I've finally had the time to dive into a couple of those big, monster projects—the type that you always talk about getting around to, but something more urgent always seems to come up. And yet here I am, with a pause in ongoing proposals (my firm is saturated with work), … Continue reading A return to memo-writing & the “vagueness and nonsense” of conversation