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Great Approach to Websites: Focus on users
Here's a slide deck worth clicking through: real-world proof that focusing on people and testing is a good approach to websites. This fits under my axioms about relying on your audience.
Debate: When the 1992 Presidential Election Was Lost / Won
This afternoon Isaiah and I recorded a webinar on debate for the Leadership Institute. We played a four minute clip from Justice with Judge Jeanine, Fox News show where the conservative host argued with a liberal guest. After introducing Isaiah's philosophy of debate (in brief) and a few tactics I employ, we then played the clip statement by statement, talking through how we'd approach a debate like that.
You Can't Go Home Again
Last week at my childhood home in Maine, I read Thomas Wolfe's classic You Can't Go Home Again. While at times funny, it was generally a little heavy for summer fiction reading.
Humor
When we wrote the copy for the Heritage Action Defund Town Hall registration pages, we wrote "Free for conservatives" as the cost. An attempt at some personality and maybe humor.
All Star Break: Buying Good Baseball Even Less Certain
Opening Day's correlation of salary rank to power rank was an ok (but I still wouldn't bet on it) 0.59.
Nathanael's Reading
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