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This is how we should talk to kids

Anil Dash

Mar 26, 2009 • 1 min read

Children’s stories should clearly communicate their messages.

Unambiguous, no?

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Cooperative Overlap

One of the biggest sources of miscommunication is people having different styles of communication, or different norms about the right way to express emotion or context even if there's agreement on more straightforward aspects of verbal communication. Things like "ask vs. guess" cultures are one common manifestation of this, and

Sep 25, 2021 • 4 min read

The Spreadsheet of Prince Recordings

Recently, a motivated Prince fan created a spreadsheet that attempts to catalog the entirety of Prince's thousands of recordings over the course of his career. Beginning in 1973 as a then-15-year-old Prince taped his first few tracks, and going through (so far) the end of the 80s, it's a remarkable

Sep 17, 2021 • 5 min read

Twenty Is Myth

Every year, for twenty years now, I've written an observance of this day. Sometimes it's for myself, sometimes it's for the small cohort of folks who've checked back in with me on this day every year since then, a group which has shrunk a bit over the years. But this

Sep 11, 2021 • 11 min read

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