Don’t divide your attention: focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort.

At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost vs.... See more

Don’t divide your attention: focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort.

At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost vs.... See more

Combine two skills that are valuable but even more rare and therefore more valuable together. Like a computer science degree and a law degree, or extreme knowledge of finance or mathematics plus public speaking. […] You’re not dabbling as a dilettante in a million things and never going a mile-deep, but you are spreading yourself across multiple... See more

Any given book is only marginally better than any other book if you think about books falling on a bell curve, but on the 80/20 curve, a great book could be ten or a hundred times as valuable as an OK or good book.

You can learn more about a field by reading the three foundational books then you can reading the most recent thirty. I’ve met people... See more