Lately I don’t blog as often as I’d like, so in an effort to change that, I’ve waived my protocol about spicy takes. I used to reserve them for Twitter and my Patreon. Today, you&…

Great analysis of Biden's speaking style: "Beasley and others noted the contrast between Biden and former President Donald Trump, who often spoke loudly and angrily."

A commencement or convocation speech should deliver a powerful message, one that students can draw on for inspiration in their lives beyond the academic walls.

Repetition is a powerfully persuasive tool. Here’s how to make any speech (or article or blog post) more persuasive.

“In fact, designers of synthesized voice systems, who often are rather solicitous when it comes to the hearer’s ease and comfort, have begun experimenting with the insertion of naturalistic disfluencies into artificial speech (though it’s too soon to tell whether listeners respond to these as they do to human disfluencies).” By Julie Sedivy.