Paul Sturrock

The same goes for watching cooking videos vs. developing your own recipe, or reading all of one author’s works vs. drafting a short story in their style.

Build your curriculum around a goal rather than a topic, and learning suddenly becomes an adventure.

Natural Games: Single Player, Positive-Sum, Internally Driven

Natural games are played with reality . Not people.

They are:

• Single player : Your progress is yours alone. You don’t need anyone to lose.


• Positive-sum : When you create value, the world gets better — and so do you.


• Internally judged : You know you’re growing because you feel it. Your ski

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The idea is that reasoning from first principles is reasoning like a scientist. You take core facts and observations and use them to puzzle together a conclusion, kind of like a chef playing around with raw ingredients to try to make them into something good. By doing this puzzling, a chef eventually writes a new recipe. The other kind of reasoning... See more

When scientists study people on their deathbed and how they feel about their lives, they usually find that many of them feel some serious regrets. I think a lot of those regrets stem from the fact that most of us aren’t really taught about path-making in our childhoods, and most of us also don’t get much better at path-making as adults, which leave... See more

Breaking the general rule that going south means more body, the Northern Rhône produces red wines that have more body, structure, meatiness and ageing potential than the southerly Côtes du Rhône. Here the Syrah grape makes the fine wines of Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage, Cornas and Saint-Joseph. While they are big wines, they have an elegance to them remin... See more