Many years ago, I knew a guy who got out in front of a popular diet trend. He was one of the first to popularize it, right at the beginning when it was first taking off. He had the first-mover advantage, a huge following, and the potential to build … Keep reading
I’ve heard it said that you can get to the top 5% in most any field with a single year of consistent deliberate practice. There’s three parts to break out of that: -Practice To get better at anything, you have to do that thing. This should be obvious, but you … Keep reading
Around these parts, real geniuses of art get more airtime than scientists. From Michelangelo to Shakespeare to Shaw and Cezanne and Hitchcock. You learn more about people by studying history, biographies, philosophy, anthropology, and works of literature and drama and poetry than you will by studying brains and logic. Why … Keep reading
When you get deep into reading on a topic, strange coincidences start piling like there’s magic at work. You’ll stumble on a reference that points you at exactly the right topic. You’ll pick up a book at the library that takes you down a new rabbit hole. If you’re reading … Keep reading