Improper proofreading is a flaw of mine, I’ll admit.

As for the font color, that’s definitely something that will be changed in the next revision. My selection of a lighter font was meant to ease eye strain, not increase it. But clearly, this hasn’t been the case.

Email me if you’re still having problems reading and I’ll be happy to do what I can to help.

Best,
-Scott

First of all, I want to say that I’ve always liked your content, and I come back to your blog again and again. However, there are a few non-content related suggestions that I would like to make.

The formatting of your PDF products basically chains me to a computer to read it. I doubt that I’m the only one that doesn’t like to sit in front of a computer to read longer works. The format would require a ton of wasted paper and toner to print it, so that’s not a great option. I just bought a Kindle DX (the biggest one), so I thought this problem would be solved, but the light font that you used on Think Outside The Cubicle is very difficult to read on the Kindle. It’s even far from ideal reading it on my computer monitor. My recommendation is to stick with a good old black font on a white background. I have no idea how much time you have spent thinking through exactly *how* people use your information products. For all I know, you might have your reasons for doing things the way you do it. In my case, however, I’m seriously considering not purchasing future products from you, even though I admittedly like the content.

My second point is that your grammar, usage, and punctuation on your blog is very flawed (it’s somewhat better on your information products). Do you think that it isn’t worth it to take a little more care with it? Maybe it’s not. I don’t know. For me, it definitely takes away from my enjoyment when I have to slow down my reading dramatically to mentally correct your flawed usage of punctuation and grammar in order to understand what you are saying.

In any case, I hope you keep cranking out the great content for years to come.

Best wishes,
Mark

Part of the problem with snippeting a book is it misses a lot of my arguments and counterarguments.

My argument isn’t that you can put in a trivial amount of effort and still succeed. I’ve written many blog posts explaining my belief to the contrary.

Instead, my argument is that time as the primary measurement of your work is lousy. Time meaning that you should record the number of hours you put towards a task, rather than the number/quality of tasks you complete.

This model of work I’m arguing for fits right in line with your argument about practice and talent. Simply that when you’re scheduling on a daily level, you’re organizing your day by tasks and not by hours of input.

-Scott

You might be interested in The talent code, which basically says that “talent” can be grown. The reason Tiger Woods is such a great golf player is because he practices, in the right way, a lot.