by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity
There’s something called “The Rule of Odds” in design, which states that visually an odd number of items are more appealing than an even number of items. Why is this, and why does this usually manifest as 3 items, rather than 1, 5, or 7 items? First, I speculate...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Goals, Social Media, Twitter
Once a year, I take a substantial break from Twitter—I put it in a box. This year I stopped using Twitter the day before Thanksgiving and I intend to keep off of it until the day after Christmas—roughly one month. I don’t do anything fancy to achieve this...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Philosophy
It’s in Walden’s second chapter, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, that Thoreau’s famous quotes on simplicity and simplify occur. Here’s the context (italics mine): Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging
I’ve decided to adopt a hashtag for my blog posts for use on Twitter: #MatthewsBlog. The reason is simple. I always have a hard time with wording at the beginning of the tweets of my blog posts. “In today’s blog,” ”Today I am blogging about,” “In my blog today,” etc....
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing
In writing, too much of a good thing is often problematic. Clarity is not one of them.
