Full time jurist, part time homebrewer, overtime beer lover. Tweet topics—wide ranging but will be focusing more on what I'm learning, atm: books\nutrition.
Mar 31, 2022 • 29 tweets • 7 min read
Over the past 5 years I've read 120+ books.
Here's 10 key lessons I've picked up from the following #books 👇:
1/1. On Writing Well, William Zinsser provides the reader with valuable lessons on writing.
Most important of all is to simplify your writing.
“Simplify, simplify.”
When in doubt, cut it from the final draft.
Lose the adverbs, speak with confidence, & forget the flowery prose
Mar 28, 2022 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, @StephenKing breaks down the secret to #writing good fiction.
His advice is straightforward w/o a hint of bullshit.
You need to: read, write, and use the right tools. And above all else, you must be fearless. #books
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King emphasizes the importance of learning through doing. Not only through writing but reading too.
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut."
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Mar 19, 2022 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
Over the past 5 years I've read 120+ books.
Here's 10 key lessons I've picked up from the following #books 👇:
1. In The Biggest Bluff, @mkonnikova shares the secret sauce to #learning:
“Less certainty. More inquiry.”
Question everything. Whittle down each subject to first principles.
That and having skin in the game by betting.
When we have a stake in the outcome, we learn more.
Dec 8, 2021 • 31 tweets • 11 min read
Getting started in web3 or crypto can be challenging due to an overall lack of an onboarding process and a steep learning curve. But once you get through that it starts to make sense.
Following is a 🧵that I wish had been available when I started down the 🐇🕳️.
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I hope others will find it useful.
First, what are the basics about “crypto”? Crypto is short for cryptography, but how’s that apply to web3?
