Alan Vonlanthen

“People are tempted to tell you everything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be giving you just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.”
― Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

“Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare”
― Preston Grant, Gay, Explained: History, Science, Culture, and Spirit

“A great way to avoid useless accuracy, and to dodge the Curse of Knowledge, is to use analogies. Analogies derive their power from schemas: A pomelo is like a grapefruit. A good news story is structured like an inverted pyramid. Skin damage is like aging. Analogies make it possible to understand a compact message because they invoke concepts that you already know.”
― Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

“Strictly speaking, one never indulges in a gin before 5 p.m. Thankfully it’s always after 5 p.m. somewhere in the Commonwealth.”
― The Queen [of Twitter], Gin O'Clock: Gin O'clock: Secret diaries from Elizabeth Windsor, HRH @Queen_UK [of Twitter]