During high school, my term exams (quizzes) required handwritten answers spanning multiple pages.

My handwriting was barely readable.

Based on some observations I started to write the letters with,

1) consistent shapes
2) same size
3) equal spaces between the letters and words.

This made my handwriting very readable but not necessarily pretty.

A few years back when I took an interest in typography I realized why this technique worked.

A printed page mostly uses a single font (letters of the same “shape”), same font size (same size) and consistent spacing between the characters (equal spaces). This among other things makes the page very readable.

I hope this technique helps someone improve their handwriting skills.

Sometimes you should never understate the obvious. You have to overstate the obvious.

For example here are some obvious Smart people traps and yet they need to be overstated.

I particularly liked the following observations,

..in order to change the world through politics, you must gain power, and the game of gaining power will fuck you up for sure.”

“…They leave school thinking that the way to be useful and show your smarts is to point out why things won’t work, rather than using some of those smart to find a way forward.”

Can you think of more smart people traps like these?