Radio UserLand Notes

From Boing Boing Blog:

Random advice for composition. Here's a procedure that I almost always find useful for improving almost any kind of written composition -- a speech, an essay, an op-ed or a story. As a first pass, try cutting the first 10 percent (the "throat clearing") then making the last 30 percent (the payoff) to the beginning of the talk (don't bury your lede!). About 90 percent of the time when someone gives me a paper for review, I find that it can be improved through this algorithm.

This is great advice for me.  I tend to overexplain some things and underexplain others.  This will help me give my speeches better focus.