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{ Monthly Archives } May 2009

Toy today, tool tomorrow

This is a repost of The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow, which I originally posted in April 2008. – – — — —– ——– The toys of today, the tools of tomorrow At the end of a brief history of human communication, Dave Gray of XPLANE gets to what he sees as the [...]

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Cool phrase of the day: Effective Efficiency

In a post earlier today, Jack Vinson reflects on six years of his blog Knowledge Jolt.  Jack was one of the first bloggers I ever followed and was one of the reasons I first started blogging, also nearly six years ago in June 2003. I’ve had a bit of a blogging-block of late (I blame [...]

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You don’t get better at writing essays by writing more essays

Though perhaps a bit more rigorous in his approach, what Geoff Colvin has to say about deliberate practice in Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else is not unlike what George Leonard says about “practice” in Mastery or how Josh Waitzkin describes his process of mastering chess and T’ai Ch’i in his [...]

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