Archive for 'Simplification'
Bill Clinton hits home with a powerful aphorism
It’s the line everyone’s talking about from Bill Clinton’s speech to the Democratic Convention last night, and a very powerful aphorism it is:
People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
It’s simple, easy to remember, and nicely encapsulates what Clinton wanted to [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Great Aphorisms, Political Speeches, Simplification.
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Bill Clinton shows how to deliver a clear message
Bill Clinton’s speech to the Democratic Convention last night was a good example of “tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you’ve told them.” And with that structure, he clearly set up an agenda for Barak Obama (presumably the agenda Obama wants…). Here’s how it played [...]
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Political Speeches, Simplification.
Tags: Bill Clinton, Democratic Convention
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Fighting against attention spam
Saw this great spelling error the other day on a blog: attention spam. I say ‘great’ because it created an expression that captures a concept I’ve been thinking about for a long time: there’s so much information and just plain stimuli bombarding our brains each day that we’re suffering from attention spam.
Whenever [...]
Posted: August 19th, 2008 under Simplification, Visual Aids.
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