The United States Navy SEALs go through some of the most intense and rigorous training you can think of. The dropout rate in basic training is pretty high. Over the years, the Navy found that those who succeed are not the ones […]
Matthew Jockers, Professor of English and Data Analytics at Washington State University, conducted an interesting study. He designed a computer program that used sentiment analysis as a proxy for plot movement of any book. Jockers used best-selling novels for his study, including […]
When Microsoft released Windows 10, they did an experiment. Instead of a boring blue screen with the Microsoft logo at the start-up, they introduced a lock screen. The lock screen is a display setting that shows breathtaking high-resolution pictures of places or […]
Kurt Vonnegut was a great American storyteller and teacher. Known for his satirical style of writing, he was one of the most famous writers of the 1960s. His career spanned over 50 years, in which he published fourteen novels, three short story […]
Did you know that until the early forties, there was no consistent sway system to grade diamonds? Diamond merchants used various, usually broad, terms to talk about the quality of a diamond. They used words like river or water to describe colorlessness. The term Cape was used […]
I recently came across a writing exercise that I found very benefiting. Chris Fox talks about it in his book “5000 Words Per Hour.” He calls it writing sprints. A writing sprint is a pre-defined length of time when you do nothing […]