Grammar rules everyone should follow. It is still the case that some ways of writing are clearer and more elegant than others, and some shibboleths, (a word, sound, or custom that a person unfamiliar with its connotation may not pronounce or use correctly, relative to those who are familiar with it), are worth following for the sake of [...]
‘Luck is that aspect of events that you can’t influence. If you can influence it, then it’s not luck’ Few of us like to dwell on the role that luck plays in life. Think too much about luck in the context of your past accomplishments, and it’s ego-bruising: it suggests that you might not be [...]
A smart solution may be ingenious, but it doesn’t follow that implementing it will necessarily be for the best ‘What if doing things more “efficiently”, in a superficial sense, results in doing them worse?’ “Work smarter, not harder.” The idea behind that annoying slogan is fundamentally a decent one: in our overworked era, who wouldn’t [...]
