Entries from February 2008

Feb 13, 2008

What I’ve Been Up To

I’ve been a little quiet lately and just wanted to let you know I haven’t fell off the face of the earth. Although I hate talking about myself, here’s what I’ve been up to and why I haven’t posted very much recently:

I’ve decided to continue my edumacation and am taking a course at Stanford, in […]

Feb 7, 2008

Master a Skill in Stages

It’s an oft-quoted truism in books on learning and productivity that it takes 10,000 hours to achieve true mastery in any skill, from composing symphonies to playing tennis.

Is it true? I have absolutely no idea. It’s certainly an appealing concept, though. We’re used to thinking of genius as an elusive, magical thing that springs fully […]

Feb 4, 2008

The Task Tarot

Divination is the art of foretelling the future through the interpretation of seemingly random signs. For instance, hieromancy is the art of divination using animal entrails. (I’ll leave it up to you to figure out what kind of entrails are involved in anthropomancy.)

Clearly, ancient peoples had even more anxiety about how they were going to […]

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