This blog was easier when no one was watching. Let me explain. I started this whole thing for myself. To put my thoughts together. Then I realized that there’s value to sharing ideas before they’re fully baked. While you may enjoy this, it's really for me. You’re a spectator. But I started running into problems when I learned who was watching. I got pulled ... Continue Reading about Write Like No One is Watching
7 Reasons Every Doctor Should Write
Once restricted to peer-review journals as their sole means of sharing ideas, every doctor on the planet is a now a potential publisher. Here's why doctors should embrace the democratization of media: 1. It's how you understand you. Writing will make you a better communicator. Writing forces you to shape what you think. Until you shape your logic and launch it, it's ... Continue Reading about 7 Reasons Every Doctor Should Write
When Doctors Write About Patients
Anna Reisman's Atlantic Health piece, Should Doctors Write About Patients, has received lots of dialog. Writing about patients is not new. What’s new is the capacity of every doctor to build an audience and write about patients. Publishing has become democratized. From constrained micromedia to traditional long-form, every doctor has the means of sharing their ... Continue Reading about When Doctors Write About Patients
Walk, Talk, Write
Every morning I take my dog Molly for a walk. The birds sing, Molly poops, and I think (Not necessarily in that order). And for many years I wrote things down when I arrived home after my walks. Very recently I decided to flirt with voice recognition to capture ideas. The results have been remarkable. The technology has become so good that I can talk freely into ... Continue Reading about Walk, Talk, Write
Microstyle – The Art of Writing Little
If you have a chance, pick up a copy of Microstyle – The Art of Writing Little by naming consultant Christopher Johnson. It’s about our new expressive economy in language: getting a lot of idea out of a little message. Johnson calls this the era of microstyle, a new era of verbal communication that technology made possible. Microstyle is part of a broader cultural ... Continue Reading about Microstyle – The Art of Writing Little
iA Writer – The App for Concentrated Writing
If you own an iPad you may be of the mindset that it's not built for writing. This week I took a trip to Seattle and left my MacBook Pro at home. Using a wireless keyboard I test drove iA Writer, an interesting new writing app for the iPad. Writer offers a strangely simple application for writing. It's essentially a white screen with a fixed type design intended to ... Continue Reading about iA Writer – The App for Concentrated Writing