10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: George Washington Carver
Born enslaved and orphaned, George Washington Carver turned ruined soil and a despised crop into a life's mission,…
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Elemental Transposition
Articles on Elemental Transposition — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Steve Wozniak
How Apple's Steve Wozniak built a legendary engineering run by mastering one skill: subtraction. The 10,000 Hours of…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Franklin D. Roosevelt
A man who could not stand without steel braces stopped a national bank run with his voice. FDR's…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Claude Shannon
The man who invented the bit treated his whole career as play. Claude Shannon's build, run through the…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur ran his life like a 50-year game against the invisible world of microbes. Here's his OP…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Aristotle
A 17-year-old from Stagira walked into Plato's Academy and stayed 20 years. The next 25 he spent inventing…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei played one stubborn game for fifty years: turn arguments into experiments, publish, take the backlash, continue…