by Dan | Feb 2, 2023 | Blog
As writers, we operate in an industry that embraces certain examples of received wisdom. Perhaps the most familiar is: Keep it short. We appreciate the writers who are masters of brevity. The editing process here almost always removes words and sentences (or whole...
by Dan | Jan 17, 2023 | Blog
Dan is on the ninth day of his last razor blade cartridge. The replacement set is 12 days late and nowhere in sight. If you know Dan, you know this will not do. Pretty soon he’s going to be scraping off whiskers with a butter knife. Or trying. So a call to...
by Dan | Jan 10, 2023 | Blog
One of us (Michelle) had a great observation following this past weekend’s NFL games, which represented the final weekend of the regular season and also followed the heart-rendering collapse of Damar Hamlin on Monday Night Football the previous week. People made...
by Dan | Dec 28, 2022 | Blog
We know a lot about trucking, logistics and supply chains. We don’t know these things because we ever took classes in them, or even because we decided one day we wanted to learn more about the topic. We know these things because, 16 years ago, a trucking...
by Dan | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog
“THIS TOOL WRITES CONTENT FOR YOU!” The professional writer who happens to be human surely enjoys a good bit of schadenfreude seeing this ad currently making its rounds on social media. A company called Jasper hopes to sell us on the idea that its artificial...
by Dan | Nov 3, 2022 | Blog
It was about two years ago that we sent out a company news item, only to realize that after hitting send, it contained a typo. This was not the downfall of western civilization but it bothered us. Three people had read the copy and someone should have seen it. We...
