How to Do Great Work

If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find…

Even when you've found something exciting to work on, working on it is not always straightforward. There will be times when some new idea makes you…

"Avoid affectation" is a useful rule so far as it goes, but how would you express this idea positively? How would you say what to be, instead of what…

One way to discover broken models is to be stricter than other people. Broken models of the world leave a trail of clues where they bash against…

The best questions grow in the answering. You notice a thread protruding from the current paradigm and try pulling on it, and it just gets longer and…

This is particularly true for behavior. Some talented people are jerks, and this sometimes makes it seem to the inexperienced that being a jerk is…

Believe it or not, I tried to make this essay as short as I could. But its length at least means it acts as a filter. If you made it this far, you…