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Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
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dona • 1 card
Radio Drama
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Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Old Technology Papers
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ACT ONE: 30 PAGES ACT TWO-A: 25 PAGES ACT TWO-B: 35 PAGES ACT THREE: 20 PAGES
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
The movie producer and all-around mensch Stuart Cornfeld once told me that in a good screenplay, every structural unit needs to do two things: (1) be entertaining in its own right and (2) advance the story in a non-trivial way. We will henceforth refer to this as “the Cornfeld Principle.”
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
The problem, McLean decided, was the maritime mindset: Pan-Atlantic’s staff, experienced in the slow-moving ways of the maritime industry, did not know how to sell to an industrial traffic manager who cared not about ships, but about getting freight to the customer on schedule at low cost. McLean brought in a team of aggressive young trucking execu
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