10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda's life-game is not 'be famous' — it's putting the people he grew up with on the…
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10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace wrote the world's first computer program in 1843 — for a machine that wouldn't be built…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Roger Federer
Roger Federer's 20-Slam build, in 6 Steps: the longevity meta-game, the 2017 comeback at 35, and the Skills…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Coco Chanel
Coco Chanel ran the same game for sixty years — strip fashion down to comfort, script her own…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Theodore Roosevelt
A sickly asthmatic kid who rebuilt himself into a Rough Rider, President, trust-buster, conservationist, Nobel laureate, and Amazon…
Libertarian Paternalism: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every behavioral designer is doing libertarian paternalism, whether they call it that or not. The cookie consent banner…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman won a Nobel in physics by playing — visualizing electrons jiggling, drawing them as little arrows,…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton's life through the 10,000 Hours of Play framework — the Plague-year grind, the Principia, the Mint…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Tiger Woods
How Tiger Woods turned a six-year-old's bedroom-wall goal into 15 majors, two voluntary swing rebuilds, and the cleanest…