Fun and Wisdom from the Underlined Page
For years I have underlined book excerpts, written notes in book margins and noted page numbers on fly-leafs so that I can return to book passages that struck me as fun or full of wisdom. Today, I begin to share some of them. Please enjoy........................... Added 27 Feb 22 ............. "Aren't we adding an impossible load on our audience when we ask them to listen intently to our words and read a lengthy PowerPoint slide at the same time? They can't do both!" From 'Talk Like TED' by Carmine Gallo, advocating pictures rather than words on slides "At least on paper, Jim Crow was over." From 'These Truths' by Jill Lepore when writing about the 'Brown v. Board' decision "So the coach had credibility when demanding maximum effort. His 2001 team was 3-4 when he handed the players a sheet that, among other things, explained how a 99.9 percent effort by the United States Post Office an
