“time slack,” or temporal freedom. These are not people who can easily go quiet for days or even hours.

Nobel Prize winners and inventors similarly do most of their best work between their late thirties and early forties.

Founders in their twenties certainly launch successful companies, but the smart money flows to their parents and grandparents.

One way to ensure you don’t respond to every setback with anxiety is to expose yourself to stress tests that steel you against setbacks. This

How many people are fearless in the face of imminent death, while doing everything in their power to avoid risk?

distilled inspiration.

This one-in-five-or-six failure metric is a useful guide when you’re learning a new skill, particularly as technology

Action also matters because it changes how we see ourselves, which in turns unsticks us.

jumping from exploration to exploitation, and back again, is almost always productive.