When Cal Newport and I began working on our course, Life of Focus , one of my early assumptions was that people’s difficulties with focus were largely external: interruptions from colleagues, pings fr
published November 30th, 2023 1. Marry well and early: I’ve found that being married makes you far more selfless, a longer term thinker, and if you marry well, you end up absorbing some of your spouse
That our atmosphere has low enough pressure and levels of deuterium that nuclear fission in air doesn’t cause hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium, meaning that the first nuclear bomb test in 1945 didn’
Willingness to look stupid People frequently 1 think that I'm very stupid. I don't find this surprising, since I don't mind if other people think I'm stupid, which means that I don't adjust my behavio
I figured it out. Or should I say, “I found out why!” Finally, I found the answer to a question that was troubling my weary mind. More precisely: Why do people keep following other people online? Why