10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche won a professorship at 24, then wrote his greatest work broke and unread. His 6-Step OP…
Work with Yu-kai
The Blog
Lich Grind
Articles on Lich Grind — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Johannes Kepler
How Johannes Kepler turned an 8-arcminute error and someone else's dataset into the three laws of planetary motion,…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Barbara McClintock
How geneticist Barbara McClintock discovered 'jumping genes,' endured 30 years of doubt, and won an unshared Nobel at…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Georgia O’Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe spent seven decades protecting her right to paint what she saw, her way. Here is her…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant published his masterpiece at 57 after a near-silent decade. Here's his run through the 6-Step 10,000…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Fyodor Dostoevsky
A mock execution, Siberian prison, and the novels that came after: Fyodor Dostoevsky's life run through the 10K…
10,000 Hours of Play by OP Hero: Rosalind Franklin
How Rosalind Franklin's relentless precision produced Photo 51 and helped crack DNA, her life decoded through the 10,000…