“BREVITY is more than a writing system. It's a rescue mission put together by one who has been there and is sharing a way out. It's so liberating to know that there is another choice that is not an extreme. We can be court reporters. We can be excellent. It doesn't have to consume our entire lives... I was burning out without even realizing it until you and BREVITY came along.”

“I've even applied the principles in BREVITY to things way outside of steno... Take away, precisely, cunningly, strategically, make it simple. ... I have a pretty good idea of where I would be going right now in my court reporting journey WITHOUT yourself and BREVITY, and I KNOW it would have been a hell of a lot harder and longer than it needed to be.”

GW, Seattle

“I'm jealous that I didn't start with your theory. It makes so much more sense. It's going to change everything for the next generation of stenographers!”

“God bless your work. It is making a difference. Sometimes things begin as a whisper and grow into a roar!”

RDSJ, Pomona, CA

“When I came across your page, it felt like the biggest breath of fresh air... Finding your blog and learning Brevity validated every weird feeling I'd been having and answered so many of my 'why' questions. And it just overall feels good in my body...it weighs so much less!”

MP, Burbank, CA

“It felt too good to be true. It flies in the face of what everyone does in this industry.”

I'm having a lot of fun with this. Just changing my "and" and Q and A is huge. I'm trying to think a lot more outside the box when I'm looking at adjusting things and seeing what works. Trying out a lot more conflicts.

And also yes in the understanding how not to merge dictionaries. I have a dictionary a trainer gave me that I refer to often when I’m tweaking things. Even seeing the conflicts and macro entries from a realtime writer helps.

Another one was speaker IDs: never would have thought to question them. Instead of writing the whole question bank and final D for my THE DEFENDANT in plea colloquies, I defined it as S-D. Amazing.

HJ, Sturgeon Bay, WI

“I never thought the BREVITY concepts were difficult to understand. It made a lot of sense seeing the concepts in theory.”

“What is so freeing about this concept is that I am going to use it slightly differently from any other person. Stenography should be flexible and moldable to my outlook instead of fixed.”

“I was able to stay on the speaker.”

Washington State reporter

“It's so much fun to write this way, it feels like cheating.”

“I think I am an average reporter, so based on that, we could all use these techniques. Mental strain and fatigue comes part and parcel with how we learned this language of steno. Alleviating some of that through this technique could be instrumental in keeping this profession alive, happy, and thriving.”

“I would say it could be the single best thing you could do for your writing.”

Washington State reporter

“I couldn't love this more. You have something here. This is revolutionary... this could be big. I'm excited to see where you could take this.”

“It's an emotional response. There's the sunk cost fallacy.”

“What I love about BREVITY is it's something you can add gradually. You could start with one single phrase that repeats in a deposition. It's not all or nothing.”

“You don't have to change what works for you. Identify what doesn't.”

Court reporter with 45 years in the industry