"Start with the concrete example of the person who starts to say 'Red is a color' and cuts themselves off and says 'Red is what that stop sign and that fire engine have in common.' What did they do on the 5-second level?"

"Why do we retain information better when we learn it over a long time period?"

"I paid attention to things I liked to do, and found ways to do more of that."

"Autonomous agents will transform user experience by automating interactions, making traditional UI design obsolete, as users stop visiting websites in favor of solely interacting through their agent."

"Most of what I believe is mostly based on trusting other people. But I also think it's a good idea to occasionally do a minimal-trust investigation: to suspend my trust in others and dig as deeply into a question as I can."

"As children, they were integrated with exceptional adults—and were taken seriously by them. When Bertrand Russell, at five years old, refused to believe the earth was round, his grandparents didn't laugh him off—they called in the vicar of the parish to reason Bertrand out of his misconception."

"You know how some people just seem to succeed at everything they do, while others seem helpless, doomed to a life of constant failure? This is a series of pieces on getting better at life."

"I don't care about the topic. Start a blog, write something, send it to me, and I'll read it. And you'll have your first reader."