We put together an index and I consider it as much a part of the marketing as the cover. I think thumbing through it reveals a potentially very different, pretty fun book. Here is a condensed version of the 200 or so entries: Allen, Woody approval process audience:...
I swear I learned a concept in high school psychology called “spatial filling.” I can’t find it on the Internet (or at least not in the way I thought I knew it), but here’s how I recall it. Spatial filling is the tendency for our mind to fill...
I used to do crosswords all the time. Then I got a smartphone. Now I just kill time browsing the Internet. But I always take one or two aboard a plane, because there are long stretches where you can’t use electronic devices, and everything, including my books,...
I hadn’t heard of the “logical punctuation” movement. I’m not really disturbed so much by the continued evolution of language to a looser, more informal style. But to learn that there has long been debate over where to put punctuation marks in...
I came across this great article recently about scheduling and time/project management. It divides the workplace into two types of people: “makers” and “managers.” There are two types of schedule, which I’ll call the manager’s...
