Smart Brevity (Revised and Updated)
The Power of Saying More with Less

A three-hour infomercial about how to write for people who don't read, which is now supposedly everybody. Mostly warmed over journalistic principles, yet journalists are presented as egregious violators of the principles. Sure, brevity is good, but here a kind of creepy, corporate bot-speak. You say......more

Adding this to the "All-time-favorites" shelf. HERE'S WHY: 1. I've been a lover and consumer of Axios news for some time now 2. This book offers clear and actionable advice on how to write better and more clearly 3. I'll be using this immediately in work, life, and any time I need to communicate WHAT......more

Ironically, while useful, this book is overlong. Once it's done breaking down the helpful information and approaches to implementing it, it sees the need (page length?) to get specific in a really granular way which anyone reading the book would seemingly be able to interpret and extrapolate on thei......more

It could have been a blog post :) But instead, it's an advertisement of Axios you're paying for with both your time and wallet, hehe. To be (slightly) more serious: + good call for action + some good examples, some good advice - definitely over-bloated and repetitive - in too many cases, brevity gets surp......more

Well written and good instruction, however, this was clearly written by men. As a woman in the corporate world, I have been scrutinized for being aggressive, assertive and curt when following this style. It has taken years to try and be less straightforward to come across as polite (just as us women......more