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people agree with that. But on a philosophical level I kind of see everybody as equal. Sorry, not legally and not practically. In a practical sense you just can't treat everybody the same. Yeah, you have to treat certain behaviors completely differently than other behaviors of course. But when I walk into a room and see a bunch of miscreants and ne'er-do-wells and non-standard people, basically a…
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Here's another funny tweet by First Words on Twitter at unscriptedmike. He said, "Elon Musk recently built the largest factory in the world in Texas, of course just launched the first all-private rocket to the International Space Station and will soon restore free speech to Twitter, the 21st century town square. Meanwhile Biden was speaking incoherently somewhere the whole time." And the reason the funny thing about this tweet is what makes it work is the last three unnecessary words. So here's a little tip for you. Generally speaking you want to remove unnecessary words from your communication because they're unnecessary and they just get in the way. But an exception is humor where sometimes the unnecessary words, I don't know exactly why they work so it's just something you have to A-B test in your head. If I add these unnecessary words is it better or worse? And I don't know why this is better but let me read the sentence again and see how important "the whole time" is even though it's unnecessary. Watch: "Meanwhile Biden was speaking incoherently somewhere the whole time." The whole time. I don't know. That's what makes the tweet right.
By the way, how often have you seen my blog post on "How to Be the Day You Became a Better Writer"? How many of you have seen that? Because it's going around again. It's been going around I think it gets passed around at least every month or so for years. If you haven't seen it the reason it gets passed around every month or so for years is that when people read it, and it takes approxim
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ately less than two minutes, very short, and it's basically the shortest writing lesson in the world with the most impact. So it was created to be exactly that, the shortest writing with the most impact. So just Google if you want to see that, "the day you became a better writer" and with my name it'll pop right up. It's all over the place now. This is why I like this live stream because some of…
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