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Could more words help your presentations? (video)

Slides often seem to collect undigested information. Could sentence headers help? Sentences require verbs, which force us to say something

2020-12-29 Effective writing tells a story / Oh, the productivity

For insights at work, hold your nerve and pay attention (long read)

By paying more attention to important signals, we can understand them better, and glimpse their unsaid meanings too. But we’ll have to slow down – to hold our nerve like a value investor, or patiently wait as if with a passive index.

2017-12-04 Aboutness first, format second

Modern metadata through a DITA lens

Modern ways of using metadata connect groups, countries, and organizations. Structured content such as DITA XML provides powerful ways to work with this metadata, but also challenges.