Tanuj

You can't make a movie and say, "It was all a big accident." No, it has to be a conspiracy, people plotting together, because a story is about intention. A story is not about spontaneous order or complex human institutions which are the product of human action but not of human design. No, a story is about evil people plotting together. So you hear... See more

The book is a single object⁠—in a single window: t he reader should continuously and freely move back and forth through the text. Chapters should not be separated from each other by hyperlinks or other artificial barriers.

I'm really not sure, and I'm not here to tell you to burn your DVD player and throw out your Tolstoy. To think in terms of stories is fundamentally human. There's a Gabriel García Márquez memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, that we use stories to make sense of what we've done, to give meaning to our lives, to establish connections with other people.... See more

Why is it that most changes are marginal, but a few, like the Great Oxidation Event, are deeply disruptive? The answer is in asymmetry.When we think of competition, we usually picture symmetric competition. Trees compete on height for sunlight, businesses on price for customers. But you can only grow so tall, or lower prices so much. Competition... See more

In the course of learning about the flavor, chemistry and textures of meat and so forth, we know quite a lot about the difference between pork and beef. And we know other meats from animals, so to speak, where you set the knobs with respect to the flavor chemistry. And we can navigate that whole space. We can create things that would be... See more

And if you are just starting out or if you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week or every month you know you're going to finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you're going to... See more