On Digital Minimalism December 18th, 2016 · 43 comments The Curmudgeonly Optimist People are sometimes confused about my personal relationship with digital communication technologies. On the one hand , I’m a computer scientist who studies and improves these tools. As you might therefore expect, I’m…

How long does it take to become elite at your craft? And what do the people who master their goals do differently than the rest of us? That’s what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wanted to know. For decades, Hayes has been investigating the role of effort,…