10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan ran the most ambitious science-communicator build of the 20th century — Voyager mission scientist, Cornell professor,…
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Articles on Cognitive Lens — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn't win cases — she rewrote the constitutional doctrine on sex so future cases would…
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: 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: Jeff Bezos
How Jeff Bezos's 1994 regret-minimization bet, 100-year platform horizon, and refusal to distribute profit make his life sheet…
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…