Posted in Architecture, Communication, People, Psychology, Reading on December 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Are excellent communicators born or bred? To communicate well you need probably a bit of both, but it turns out that a large part can be learnt.
Genie Laborde, the author Influencing With Integrity, comes from the school of thought that looks at an effective communication process, breaks it down into smaller elements that can be […]
Posted in Communication on January 16th, 2006 Comments Off
“Edward Tufte’s fundamental rule of efficient graphical design is to minimize the ratio of ink-to-data. …
The primary source of extraneous lines in charting graphics today are the 3-D options offered by conventional spreadsheet graphics. …
Pie charts should rarely be used. It is more difficult for the eye to discern the relative size of […]
Posted in Communication on June 24th, 2005 Comments Off
I have meant to make some notes here on Paul Graham’s essays on writing. I even made notes from his piece The Age of Essay, which includes some very good points. I meant to collect links to all inspirative essays on writing. I haven’t finished that. Fortunately others have stepped in collected this and other […]