Class Roster 1. Previously On: Shitty First Drafts 2. Previously On: Extra Ear 3. Thresholds 4. An Act of Philanthropy 5. The Wave 6. Quiet 7. Social Loafing 8.

Baseball, Bill Gates, and Clutch Players 9. Production Blockage 10. Evaluation Apprehension 11. Benjamin Franklin 12. Sentences, Ideas, Persuasion 13. For Want of a Nail 14. Bored and Confused 15. Tappers vs.

Listeners 16. The Curse of Knowledge 17. The Sense of Style 18. The Disease of American Writing 19. Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Joe Louis 20. Bloated and Wasteful 21. Adverbs 22. Adjectives 23.

The Optimal Level of Advocacy 24. Doublets 25. English Never Stops 26. Control vs. Collect 27. Gawande 28. The End of Average 29. Brain Scans, Bobby Fischer, and Benjamin Bloom 30.

Square Peg 31. Notes on Nuance: "Let Alone" Acknowledgments Notes Photo Credits.