Quote from oddiduro:
To all those who have actually read this entire thread!!
I felt like I wanted to get this onto some hard copy so I could read it while away from any PC.
It turned out to be 699 pages thick on 8.5 by 11 paper with 1/2 margin and standard font. I decided against printing it.
Jack has culled this down to 52 pages on the toolbox thus far.
I has occured to me what a large undertaking condensing this material really is.
It also made me realize just how much we have learned.:eek:
You are right about not printing it. I have it on floppies for working in files.
The version I will cut the size a lot. Version II goes much further. Both these keep the chronology because that is the only way to learn. You learn by plateaux and by the levels of money you make that give you permission to add another plateau.
This is where a person goes though the discovery of why software packages and books do not work. you cannot have dumped upon you the whole banana and expect to make money. You need a basic foundation of risk free successes to build upon.
The reat of the support system is the spin off list of ideas and terms. alphabetizing it makes it accessable. the double Go to schema get you to the chronology oflearning and you also use the "See" go to as a way to surround what you want to know with all the other ideas and terms that accompany it.
Luckily, my masters is in information and writing. I will start the writing part with the spin off; it will be clear ,crisp and concise as a basic style. I use Elements of Style, by Strunk and White as my basic approach. I follow the conventions of the Chicago Style Guide and the Writers Handbook which is an internal document at McGraw Hill. Because I did not like working in green buildings, I did not accept their offer in 1956, before I got out of grad school.
LOL, at IBM I had four full time transcriptionists, so this typing and Dragon stuff is just a way to remediate my joints.