Taking notes by keyboard, or even worse for some, by hand with a pen or pencil, is akin to the dark ages. It is not a task that most people yearn to do. Otter.ai is a voice-to-text conversion tool that can help you avoid making notes into digital documents and be more productive. 75 years […]
On my way to Everything Mason Jars one day, I saw a fancy-candle store. I’ve wanted a fancy candle for some time, so I popped in. Hi, welcome to Everything Candles! We have a hundred different fragrances. I’m Sandra. Can I help you? Me: Do you have a candle that smells like writing? Sandra: What […]
AI programs are here, and one of their missions is to take over the writing space. Large language models like ChatGPT are some of the latest-to-arrive AI programs that can generate a variety of texts. After consuming billions of words from the internet, including sources like websites, articles, and Reddit discussions, the language models can […]
Julia Whelan and her book “Thanks for Listening: A Novel.” Whelan will appear with fellow author Allison Winn Scotch at the “Super Book IV” event in San Diego on Feb. 16 Julia Whelan is a bestselling author, a screenwriter, an actor, a Grammy-nominated audiobook director and an award-winning audiobook narrator. How does she select the […]
What’s the last great book you read? I recently reread Edwidge Danticat’s “The Art of Death,” an extraordinary exploration of how we make meaning from death in life and literature. It was even more revelatory reading it from this point in the pandemic. Are there any classic novels that you only recently read for the […]
For the exhibit “Lost in Translation,” San Diego artist Jackie Dunn Smith created a painting, right, purely from the words written by local writer Patrick Coleman, left. “What’s that saying: ‘there are a thousand words in a picture?’” So asks Chi Essary, a local curator, and arts advocate, when describing “Lost in Translation: A Game […]
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In putting together this special report on how writing instruction can and should build on the science of reading, Education Week reporters read through dozens of studies and spoke to leading researchers in the field. From this reporting, we landed on four main research takeaways, each of which is worth reiterating here and consulting as […]
Make this year your most successful writing year ever by considering the following questions to set your goals and intentions. At the start of each year, we’re encouraged by nearly everyone around us to make resolutions for the new year. Oftentimes, the resolutions are supposed to do with eating better, exercising more, or being a […]
“It seems clear to me that this is a new epoch in technology.” –StratecheryDerek Thompson: In a recent article for the Stratechery newsletter, you said that AI was the story of the year in 2022. Why? Ben Thompson: Well, it’s something that’s been burbling under the surface. Like a lot of things in tech, it […]
