Smart Brevity
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4 episodesAnd, This Is How To Build A Better Media Business With Axios’s Jim VandeHei
Jim VandeHei briefly mentions Smart Brevity as the book that preceded Simplify, describing it as being about communicating what matters far more efficiently and effectively—with crisper language and a clear hierarchy—and as the foundation for the Axios HQ spinoff company that teaches organisations to break bad communication habits.
The 3-Step System for Simplifying Your Work and Life
Jim VandeHei briefly mentions Smart Brevity, his previous book, as context for Simplify. He describes it as addressing the bad habit of long-winded writing and offering a corrective framework for writing more efficiently. He characterizes Simplify as "Smart Brevity on steroids applied to every aspect of your life."
Jim VandeHei, Axios | Confront. Delete. Amplify.
Jim VandeHei recounts how Smart Brevity grew out of Axios HQ's work teaching companies to communicate more efficiently. He describes his agent's pitch, five publishers bidding on it, and its becoming a bestseller that still sells roughly a thousand copies worldwide every week, three years on. A second book in the conversation identifies it as the foundation whose principles Simplify extends.
The Smart Brevity Manifesto!
Jim VandeHei describes Smart Brevity, his earlier book, as a guide to writing and communicating more efficiently, noting it still sells roughly a thousand copies a week. He credits it with making him not just a better writer but a better thinker, and frames Simplify as extending the same philosophy to running entire companies. Smart Brevity is also referenced throughout as the editorial delivery format underlying Axios's national and local products.
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