Steven Shoemaker
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- Matter | How To Start Writing Online: The Ship 30 for 30 Ultimate Guide1 savers
- Beware What Sounds Insightful - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog5 savers
- Becoming a magician – Autotranslucence40 savers
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- The Case for Adding DesignOps to Your Org Chart — Lessons From InVision | First Round Review1 savers
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These are people who still believe in the days of Hemingway, Faulkner, Dostoevsky, and Bukowski (among others). To become a writer, they believe, you must wear a chapeau, smoke a corn cob pipe, stare out the window and wait for inspiration to strike. Better yet, you must detach yourself from the world, find a cabin in the woods (God forbid it has Internet), and dedicate the next 10 years of your life to writing the next Great American Novel. And if you die doing it, even better. You have lived, and suffered, the life of a true "writer."
Matter | How To Start Writing Online: The Ship 30 for 30 Ultimate GuideIf you read something on the internet today, the odds are good that the writing was produced to capture your attention.
Beware What Sounds Insightful - Commonplace - The Commoncog BlogI’m not being completely facetious here. Arguments from historical example are often doubly effective: first because they are rooted in reality, and second because they allow the writer to tell a story. Readers love stories — they’re far easier to read than argumentative prose.
Beware What Sounds Insightful - Commonplace - The Commoncog BlogWriters are often seen as smarter because good writers today are trained to optimise for sounding insightful. This bleeds over into reader perception.
Beware What Sounds Insightful - Commonplace - The Commoncog BlogSo, in short, a helpful strategy for becoming a magician: Surround yourself with people who look like magicians to you. Then imagine yourself as one, older and wiser, in great detail. Imagine yourself as the person you would be afraid to say you want to be out loud to others (because it seems so ridiculously impossible right now). Write it down in great clarity and detail, then forget it. And let the part of your subconscious mind that still remembers lead you to becoming the things you want, and maybe, years later, check if it did.
Becoming a magician – AutotranslucenceDesign as a function is really starting to mature in organizations of all sizes. It’s reached a tipping point where companies need to think about how they can scale their design process — and that’s the sweet spot for DesignOps to come in and make magic happen.
The Case for Adding DesignOps to Your Org Chart — Lessons From InVision | First Round ReviewDesign operations, tasked with crafting efficient workflows, optimizing design’s internal partnerships and creating functional growth that scales for the long term.
The Case for Adding DesignOps to Your Org Chart — Lessons From InVision | First Round Review