I had an argument once with a colleague about the quality writing and communication and the popularity of those communications. In short, my colleague argued that even if another colleague (a “coac” or “colleague of a colleague”) wrote a blog that only 10 other people read, it was still a good blog. My counter was that, [...]

Oh, spelling and grammar. My greatest educational and professional bane. My (close to) greatest source of embarrassment. Until roughly the late 19th century, spelling for most people, even the “educated classes” was essentially a process of deciding what looked good. It wasn’t even probabilistic so much as optimistic. Note that Terry Pratchett described one character’s [...]