Andy Unedited
Exploring Books, Life, and Writing
The business world is one of the worst offenders when it comes to jargon. It is full of superficially hip insider language that lends a sense of currency to ideas that are (or should be) just common sense. If I hear metrics, optics, curating, ecosystem, and granular one more time I will stack up all …
You’ve seen the pop-up adds and click bait many times. “He predicted the Great Recession. Now look what stock he says to buy!” What few ask, however, is this. What other predictions did he make that failed? Were there dozens? Hundreds? No one remembers those. But if you make lots of such guesses, then odds …
Consider this problem. A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
Since I’ve been an editor all these years, many people assume I have a degree in English or journalism. They are wrong, of course. I have a degree in mathematics. That may seem an odd thing, but studying mathematics has helped me tremendously as an editor in at least two ways. First, it trained me …
Next week IVP undertakes its annual ritual of taking stock. I don’t mean we will evaluate how well we did or didn’t hit our goals for the end of our fiscal year on June 30. Rather almost all office personnel are commandeered by those in our accounting department and our distribution center to “do inventory.” …