Friday, May 31, 2013

Readability is the Only Metric

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What you can measure, you can improve.   Whether you need creative content for e-commerce or step-by-step instructions for machine repair, y...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

How to Hire a Technical Writer

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Readability is the only metric.  Microsoft Word offers a readability score under the Grammar & Spelling checker off the Tools menu.  The...
Friday, May 17, 2013

Sándor Kőrösi Csoma

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He walked from Hungary to Tibet and brought the language of Tibet to the West.  His grammar of their language is also the foundation of...
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Sunday, May 12, 2013

The Success of the WEIRD People

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No single cause explains our standard of living.  From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, the industrial revolution, and now the inform...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Entrepreneurship

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Writing over 300 newspaper and magazine articles about business, technology, and culture, I have interviewed very many entrepreneurs. Perhap...
Monday, May 6, 2013

KALLIOPE

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Last night, on patrol, I met a Muse.  Kalliope, the muse of epic poetry passed by at 6th and Congress.  She was coming from 6th and San Jaci...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Disruptive Diagnostics and the Business of Science

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Former UT professor Tom Kodadek returned to address the postdoctoral student association of the School of Biological Sciences on April 25...
Monday, April 22, 2013

OBJECTIFIED

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Objectified is a film by Gary Hustwit about design, designers, and the objects that they create.  Dieter Rams of Braun and Apple’s Jonathan...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

The Genius of Design

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“For industrial designers, the world is never enough. They give shape and texture to the world to make it livable—indeed, beautiful—for the ...