What Your Work Is Missing

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“A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said,” Amos Tversky says to Don Redelmeier (via The Undoing Project). That’s certainly true; it’s also part of good storytelling. Van Lathan writes in his latest book, Fat, Crazy, and Tired:

“I grabbed the first scale I saw, and I started toward the men’s room. I almost made it, but it wasn’t meant to be. Just as I put my…