How Our Members Run a Good Discussion (and Keep It Kind)
Disagreement is the point of a community like this one. Here is how the best threads on the site manage to argue hard and stay warm.
By Site Admin · Thursday, Sep 24
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Why Explaining Something Badly Is the Fastest Way to Learn It
You do not have to understand a subject before you explain it. Explaining it, clumsily and in public, is how the understanding arrives. A note on the single most useful habit on this site.
By Site Admin · Tuesday, Aug 18
Notes From Our First Ideas Night
Twenty-eight members, one borrowed room, five questions nobody could answer. What happened at our first Ideas Night, and what we would do differently.
By Site Admin · Wednesday, Jul 15
The Complete Guide to Writing a Post People Actually Finish
Most posts are not bad, they are abandoned. Six habits that get readers to your last line, for feed posts, forum topics and articles alike.
By Site Admin · Friday, Jul 3
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