A batch of the best highlights from what Nathan's read, .
The fundamental act of revision is literally becoming conscious of the sentence,
Several Short Sentences About Writing
Verlyn Klinkenborg
In late 1987 Skilling pitched his idea to a meeting of 25 top Enron executives, including Lay and Kinder, in a conference room on the forty-ninth floor of Enron’s headquarters in downtown Houston. In classic Skilling fashion, he used just one slide in his presentation—which shocked the Enron executives, who were expecting dozens—and he spoke for less than a half hour.
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
One of the biggest possible wastes of time and effort, and the reason for countless failed startups, is when a team designs and builds a product, yet, when they finally release the product, they find that people won't buy it.