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Writing Tips from Annual Reports
Posted on July 5, 2011 by Lloyd Morgan at Lone GunMan Proving that good writing can be found anywhere, writer Nancy Friedman points to Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s annual reports as examples of excellent copy writing. I cannot but agree. Friedman submits that we can learn to write better copy by studying Warren Buffett’s…
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artismyhustle: kbas: Do ureself a favor and cop Paul Arden’s ‘It’s not how good you are, but how good you want to be.’ i love this book I’ve been trying to work through this idea, but bump against my own ego. It’s a personal challenge as well as a professional one in academia and industry.
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A Library Sans Livres
thenewinquiry: Vintage library poster from the New York Public Library Archives Will the library of the future be a reliquary of precious artifacts or the information processor that obliterates them? By Olivia Rosane “I suspect that the human species—the unique human species—is on the road to extinction, while the Library will last on forever.” —Borges,…
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wilwheaton: In May of this year, Pixar animator Austin Madison kindly hand-wrote the following open letter to aspiring artists, in a bid to inspire them through times of creative drought. It’s a lovely, eloquent letter, and in fact contains advice valuable to people in many a creative field. It was written as a contribution to…
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magnificentruin: Kazimir Severinovich Malevichdetail, Black Square1930
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Once in a while, someone will say something that’s so self-evidently true, and so unexpected, that you’ll spend the rest of your life working through its implications. For me, one such truth is “A publisher makes a work public, it connects a work and an audience”, and the person who said it is my editor…
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(via The Emerging Epicenters of High Tech Industry | Magazine | Wired.com)
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petervidani: “The simplest and most radical thing that Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner was to put urban archeology in the frame. I(t) hadn’t been obvious to mainstream American science fiction that cities are like compost heaps — just layers and layers of stuff. In cities, the past and the present and the future can…
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theatlantic: The War on Drugs Turns 40 Police officers, judges, and prison guards opposed to drug prohibition gathered in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to mark an eye-opening milestone: the 40th Anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s War on Drugs. “America’s public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse,” Nixon declared in a June 17,…
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When Steven Heller first approached me about starting a graduate industrial-design program at SVA, my response was, “I don’t know if it would be an ID department, exactly, but it would certainly involve artifacts, their purpose, making, sustainability…” And he said, “Great! Write it up.” But the challenge was to figure out what the landscape…