Bad writing is the bane of my life.It takes more time to read and make sense of bad writing. It’s frustrating red-penning lousy work.It’s a huge cost to business.Consider this.Jo works in a large organisation and spends about 15 minutes each day trying to make sense...
My partner and I had a holiday weekend in a hotel in regional Victoria recently and enjoyed the walk-in, walk-out, no-need-to-prep-anything experience of our luxury hotel room. I handed over my driver’s licence at check-in, which was photocopied. I didn’t...
It’s a phrase we may have heard, but many of us ignore it. Thought to have been coined by American aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson and widely adopted by the engineering industry, the principle is that most systems work best if they’re kept simple rather than...
Ever seen TL;DR on an article or in a comment and wondered what it means? I’m generally opposed to acronyms and abbreviations, but this made me laugh when I looked it up. It means too long, didn’t read. It’s what I wanted to say to my dad last week...
I say it’s fake. Best-selling author Josh Bernoff wrote, “the fuzzy, terrible writing we slog through every day at work” costs American businesses nearly $400 billion every year. He found that people in business spend 6 per cent of total wages trying...
