Entries by jasonpartin

Books I read while backpacking in Nepal & India

6 minute read. This is an older copy. The new version is here. M any backpackers carry a Kindle but I prefer to carry a book. Books provide a tactile sensation that a Kindle does not, and I enjoy discovering new books while traveling. Guest-houses in Nepal and India often have book-exchanges, stocked with books […]

Time is valuable. Write concisely.

30-second read. Time is valuable. Write concisely, and read what is in your best interest. Sixty-three words that could change the world are: Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no […]