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He taught in chunks, using what he called the “whole-part method”—he would teach players an entire move, then break it down to work on its elemental actions.
Daniel Coyle • The Talent Code
he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Livingston: What is your favorite bit of advice you'd give to a technical person who wanted to start a startup? Schachter: Reduce. Do as little as possible to get what you have to get done. Do less of it; get it done. If you've got two things that you want to put together, take away until they go together. Don't add another thing. Because you can u
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
To come to New York City in the 1890s with a background in dressmaking or sewing or Schnittwaren Handlung was a stroke of extraordinary good fortune. It was like showing up in Silicon Valley in 1986 with ten thousand hours of computer programming already under your belt.
Malcolm Gladwell • Outliers
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