Rob Wiblin’s 80,000 Hours team has a goal of identifying the skill bottlenecks keeping us from solving the world’s most pressing problems. Yesterday he sent out an important question to the universe via Twitter. […]
New Expertise Required
Something New
Two things happened yesterday. More than two really, but two relative to the scope of this thousand-word blog. The first, was that for about the five hundredth Tuesday in a row, I […]
The Gap
There’s a space between what I once was and what I am now. When I ask others to travel it with me, they can’t. It’s not their fault. It’s just too far. About […]
The Great Decoupling
In 1880, George Eastman developed a machine that could coat the dry photographic plates used in the sliver gelatin process. In plain English, that means he made it easier to make the […]
The Inevitability of the Machine
As long as we’ve been making computers, we’ve been trying to make them beat us at chess. That sounds like an odd thing to do with a computer out of all possible […]