A Briefer History of Time
You can read all of Stephen Hawking’s 2008 book online as a web book (kind of like Resilient Web Design).
Link archive: February 28th, 2019
Getting help from your worst enemy
Onboarding. Reaching out. In terms of. Synergy. Bandwidth. Headcount. Forward planning. Multichannel. Going forward. We are constantly bombarded and polluted with nonsense speak. These words and phrases snag and attach themselves to our vocabulary like sticky weeds.
Words become walls.
I love this post from Ben on the value of plain language!
We’re not dumbing things down by using simple terms. We’re being smarter.
Read on for the story of the one exception that Ben makes—it’s a good one.
Write on your own website | Brad Frost
Writing on your own website associates your thoughts and ideas with you as a person. Having a distinct website design helps strengthen that association. Writing for another publication you get a little circular avatar at the beginning of the post and a brief bio at the end of the post, and that’s about it. People will remember the publication, but probably not your name.
WorldWideWeb coverage
Remy’s keeping a list of hyperlinks to stories covering our recent hack week at CERN.