I drove this morning. There's a good chance that you did, too. Did you drive on a road? Yeah, me too. The roads I drove on have been around for several decades. I don't know when they were built. I'm pretty sure someone built them. I didn't pay for the roads to be built. But I'm pretty sure that someone did. Life would be really different if they weren't built. Businesses would have a hard time making money. People would have a hard time getting to work. There's a pretty valuable … [Read more...]
Be smart. Write better.
June 4, 2011 by
The screen flashed the report. It told me that I write at a post-graduate level. It compared my writing to insurance documents. I was proud. I scored high. No one could follow a single 62 word sentence I wrote. But the computer told me I was smart. Truth was I was being dumb. I made things overly complex to feel smarter. I remember teachers coming to ask me what a word I used meant. They didn't know the word (It was "Reify"). I thought I was smart. Truth was I was being dumb. I … [Read more...]
