Conventional wisdom has it that you should sandwich negative feedback between two pieces of positive feedback. You can read about “the hamburger method” here.
Shelle Rose Charvet points out that most people already know the method. Now, when they hear positive feedback, they simply bypass it and wait fo the shoe to drop (then they ignore [...]
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Giving feedback: is the “sandwich” valuable, or trite and ineffective?
August 12th, 2008 · 8 Comments
Organizing an 80,000 word book: my current process and thoughts
May 21st, 2008 · 4 Comments
An 80,000-book is very different to write than a 900-word podcast. It’s been a challenge to wrap my head around lots of specific tips and tie them together coherently. Here are the tools and my current conception of how I’m going to organize the book. Hope it works…
Organization: by problem
April 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Between the tweets, the comments here, and the e-mail I’ve received, I’m moving ahead organizing by problem. The working idea is:
A chapter discussing and framing the problem/opportunity of productivity.
A chapter introducing several high-level tools and concepts.
Then several chapters that take a large problem and give tips to address different aspects. For example: beating procrastination, keeping [...]
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How should the book be organized?
April 4th, 2008 · 7 Comments
How should the book be organized? My goals:
Casual browsers should be able to pick up and find something useful.
Keep people reading.
Be intriguing enough that Ellen, Oprah, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Larry King, the Today Show, etc. are fighting over who gets to interview me first.
Organize by bio
Come meet Stever. My background is a tad [...]
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