01-general-reference

I’m often asked to edit friends’ or coworkers’ writing, anything from emails to short stories to documentation. Recently, someone asked me how I edit. What am I looking for? How do I know what changes to make? That made me stop and think about what I’ve been doing semi-instinctually.

Inspirational Street Art from NYC. The BE MIGHTY Project spreads quotes of inspiration, motivation and wisdom across NYC sign posts and beyond by posting paper flyers with 10 tabs each flyer all with different quotes.

Inspirational Street Art from NYC. The BE MIGHTY Project spreads quotes of inspiration, motivation and wisdom across NYC sign posts and beyond by posting paper flyers with 10 tabs each flyer all with different quotes.

In case you haven’t seen them yet, I want to call your attention to the latest attack on the scientific method: positionality statements, in which authors attach totally irrelevant personal information to their scientific manuscripts. Typical of the illogic of our schizophrenic age, this is occurring at the same time that the NSF

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Haunted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, these visualisations of proverbs look backward to uncertain origins.

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A New York Times bestselling guide to sharing your creativity and getting discovered. From the author of Steal Like An Artist.

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I share an important exercise with my writing students that asks them to stand in another person’s shoes. They’re finding it harder and harder to do.

How to Prevent Studies from Turning You into a Fool

We’ve got a thing for creative problem solvers here at Open Culture. We also love a good community-spirited project.

Google’s experimental NotebookLM lacks many of the features of more established notes apps, but its generative AI core gives it analysis and summarization superpowers.

While we don't recommend it, you can pretty easily use Discord as a Google Drive replacement for storing your files.

All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.

When Taylor Swift announced at the Grammys that the title of her new album would be “The Tortured Poets Department,”

A simple printable calendar with the full year on a single page