The key difference between story points and hours of effort is that story points are designed to compare the relative effort between tasks, while hours of effort calculations aim to predict the exact ...

“If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly ... These essays emphasize the commonality of the urge to tell a story — to feel important, to immortalize a memory, to make ...

When you write a short story, the lack of constraints and parameters can feel freeing until you realize the open playground is full of craters, ones you can fall into and then never emerge.