Collaborate Disseminate
This past weekend, I spent over 25 hours completing the first preview version of a new book my wife and I are writing together, a marathon session that’s difficult to explain, let alone believe. And I experienced it.
Here’s how it went down. On Saturda… Continue reading From the Editor’s Desk: 25 Hours (Premium)
I switched to Typora this past year, in part because iA Writer for Windows is a pale imitation of the Mac version. But that’s about to change.
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Along with Schrödinger’s Cat, the Infinite Monkeys Theorem is one of the most famous thought experiments. A new study, with tongue firmly in cheek, has calculated that you might be waiting seven googol years for your Shakespeare.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Monkeys would take 7 universe lifespans to type works of Shakespeare
AI writing tools can boost productivity and creativity. Discover the five best options to enhance your content creation with smart features. Continue reading 5 Best AI Writing Tools: Supercharge Your Content Creation
Marlboro & Kane from London has a thing for shrinking tools down to the smallest size possible while still making them functional. The company’s latest mini marvel lets you have a pen – and a bit more functionality – always at hand.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Metal-clad MiniPen adds a twist to your everyday-carry arsenal
If you really want to concentrate on your writing, you probably shouldn’t be using a computer that’s connected to the highly distracting internet or that’s always sending you email alerts. That’s where the BYOK comes in, as it doesn’t let you do anythi… Continue reading Simple li’l screen pairs with your keyboard to minimize distractions
On this day in 2004, Addison-Wesley/Pearson published my first book, The Tao of Network Security Monitoring: Beyond Intrusion Detection.This post from 2017 explains the differences between my first four books and why I wrote Tao. Today, I’m always… Continue reading My First Book Is 20 Years Old Today
I spoke recently with Tony Redmond, a long-time friend and the primary author of the highly recommended Office 365 for IT Pros: The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Microsoft’s Cloud Office System, which he self-publishes using Gumroad. I had been wanting … Continue reading On Writing: Windows, Eternal Spring, and Books (Premium)
Historians have discovered what may be the world’s first decimal point, in an ancient manuscript written 150 years before its next known appearance. There have been many ways to split integers, but this little dot has proven uniquely powerful.Continue … Continue reading The invention of the decimal dot that changed mathematics forever
New technologies bring with them the threat of change. AI tools are one of the latest such developments. But as is often the case, when technological threats show up, they …read more Continue reading AI’s Existence Is All It Takes To Be Accused Of Being One