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The Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide and Word Usage Dictionary is a joint effort by various groups within Red Hat. It is intended as a supplement to the titles listed in

If you want to stay five steps ahead, get fluent in the small phrases that shift entire strategies.

I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a...

Making Decisions, Novels as Practice, Theaters for Self-Reflection, Dark Books, Measuring ‘Narrativeness,’ More

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It describes that stack of unread books sitting on your nightstand, your desk, your floor… You know the ones — bought with the best intentions, filled with knowledge you genuinely want to absorb. But…

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A reflection on the reading life. What formed it, what threatens it, and what remains.

There are many things I love about Mark Twain. His wit, humour, and sarcastic tone are at the top of the list. It’s almost as if he hitched a ride on the back of Halley’s Comet when it arrived in…

Californians now have free access to 30,000 ebooks and audiobooks available from the California State Library's virtual bookshelf.

Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?

I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...

A link to every page on the site, with an indication of whether or not you have visited it.

Oops, I'm writing a textbook.

As a consequence of scanning thousands of slides, I learned quite a bit about taking photos that capture a family’s life. Here’s a personal…

How to position, design, and optimize your Substack publication for fast growth.

And embrace effective lifelong learning

I can’t predict the future, so I don’t know what the year will bring, but I feel pretty confident in predicting that 2025 will be…

Technology has changed the way many of us consume information, from complex pieces of writing to short video clips, says Sarah O’Connor for the Financial Times.

Each of these titles exercises a different kind of reading muscle, so that you can choose the one that will push you most.