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Introducing Style Check
Introducing Style Check
Style Check is like having a personal editor-in-chief on your device, carefully reviewing your text for redundancies, clichés and filler words as you type. It's simple, different, powerful, and available for Mac, iOS, Windows and Android.
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Introducing Style Check
Learning to See
Learning to See
You need a design eye to design, and a non-designer eye to feel what you designed. ​ the more I learn about the many ways of human expression—music, architecture, even sports, the more I enjoy observing the masters at work. How could one not enjoy observing functional beauty and the care for detail? ​ —the more advanced you are, the less you need to consciously think about it. The less you think about what you do, the more virtuosity you will be able to achieve. ​ Again, this is a rule of thumb. That not everybody can sit down at a piano and play away like Glenn Gould is not the piano’s fault. Your skills need to match the tool you are using to assess its quality—you can’t test-drive a car if you haven’t learned to drive. But everyday objects should only require everyday skills. This is what makes web design so hard.
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Learning to See
Why We Like Distractions
Why We Like Distractions
We procrastinate to protect ourselves.​ Distractions allow us to delay the moment of truth where we need to show who we really are, what we can really do, where we need to expose ourselves, prove ourselves, and ultimately face the mirror of reality.
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Why We Like Distractions