Doug Garnett wrote a bog post titled Complexity vs Precise Language in Business (31 March 2025).
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Dave Gray wrote a blog post titled Liminal Thinking (9 November 2014).
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George Orwell, author of Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), wrote an article titled Politics and the English Language for the April 1946 edition of Horizon.
« Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers. »
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David Burkus wrote an article titled Does Hiring For Culture Fit Actually Work? (17 March 2025).
Continue reading “Culture Fit vs. Culture Add”Two cost drivers of U.S. health care: price opacity and doctor shortage
James Nguyen wrote an opinion piece for The Hill titled Don’t blame insurers for what doctor and hospital cartels did to US health care (28 December 2024).
Continue reading “Two cost drivers of U.S. health care: price opacity and doctor shortage”The Unintended Consequences of Open Offices
Ethan Bernstein and Ben Waber wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The Truth About Open Offices: There are reasons why they don’t produce the desired interactions (November-December 2019).
It is worth noting that the article was published prior to ubiquity of Zoom meetings, but the general insights on human behavior likely stand the test of time.
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An article titled Eighteenth-Century Grammars on the British Literature Wiki (hosted by University of Delaware) explains when the capitalization of common nouns (substantives) came in and out of fashion, the use of the long s in English, and more.
Continue reading “18th Century English: capitalizing common nouns and long S”H pencils are hard. B pencils are soft. So why are they called B?
Artists use a variety of pencils to get different marks.
2H pencil is hard, 4H pencil is harder, etc.
2B pencil is soft, 4B is softer, etc.
So why aren’t they called H and S pencils?
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Alan Levinovitz wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? (September 25, 2024).
Continue reading “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?”The doorway effect
Charles B. Brenner and Jeffrey M. Zacks wrote an article for Scientific American titled Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget (December 13, 2011).
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