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Tag: communication
How best to contact someone new
I don’t think there is a one-size-fits-all approach when you want to contact someone new. I think it depends very much on the individual and what that person’s preferred communication channels.
I just visited LinkedIn to publish my previous post and this stunned me. I installed WeChat on my phone a while ago, was pretty uneasy about it (I searched for information about the encryption it uses or other security features and couldn't even a hint and that troubled me) and removed it from my phone.… Continue reading What the heck is going on with WeChat?
Picking up the Slack
I paused my Basecamp account last year when my team members went their separate ways and I continued on as a solo towards the end of the year. My plan was to resurrect my Basecamp account in the new year once I started building a new team. I’m not sure where I came across Slack…… Continue reading Picking up the Slack
Lawyers can be terrible writers
Rian van der Merwe wrote an interesting post titled “Good writing and the death of plain language” recently which touches on something I think about each time I sit down to write an article or a contract. Van der Merwe quoted William Zinsser’s “On Writing Well” and this one paragraph stood out for me: Our…… Continue reading Lawyers can be terrible writers