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https://www.amazon.com/Style-Clarity-Chicago-Writing-Publish...
He says that to achieve clarity, imagine the subject of each sentence as the character of a scene, and the verb as its action. Make sure you hit both character and action within the first 6-10 words of your sentence.
Begin each sentence with information that the reader is familiar with, and end it with the new information you want to introduce.
That will get you a long way toward creating understanding (and feeling) in the reader.
Motivation = (Expectancy + Value) / (Impulsiveness + Delay)
It's useful to know what each of those terms means.
Your motivation is for a specific task or goal.
Expectancy is your confidence that you can complete a task or reach the goal.
Value is the importance you assign to the goal.
Impulsiveness is how distractable you are, or your susceptibility to other interesting things that you might do instead of working toward the goal (like writing comments on HN! ;).
Delay is the amount of time you have until the task should be completed.
The more distractable you are, and the more time until you hit your deadline, the less motivation you have.
The more confidence you have in your ability to complete the task, and the more importance you assign to it (eg this is life or death), the more motivated you are.
Cedric Chin has a nice overview here:
https://commoncog.com/blog/a-user-review-of-the-procrastinat...
Most societies of that time did not even bother to outlaw slavery, let alone enforce those laws. There were contradictions within British society. That was an enormous advance over the many societies and nations that simply accepted slavery in that period.
Societies in Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and elsewhere in Europe were open in their commitment to and acceptance of slavery as an institution. You could say that slavery was the norm historically. Britain was the exception. And as the exception, managing a global empire, it continued to have many interactions with slave-driven economies.
What is Hash's business model in relation to its free tooling?
https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/