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Connect the Dots Looking Backwards

From the yank of Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address · Stanford

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1 What are you making?

An article for a blog, Medium or Substack, with a link to the moment behind every claim. Whose is the source?

Mine: I made itYour own video, podcast or talk, adapted into an article you can publish as yours.Someone else’sAn article about it in your voice, with a few short exact quotes and the source linked. Never the source retold.

2 What’s the angle?

Finding the ways to tell this source…

3 How strict?

Strictly sourcedEvery fact comes from the source. Figures, names and quotations are checked against it.CreativeHooks, framing and opinions are yours. Facts from the source are still checked; quotations are still exact.

Connect the Dots Looking Backwards

1 What are you making?

2 What’s the angle?

3 How strict?

4 Whose voice?