April 7, 2009 | 1:21 pm | nachos
I got the idea for this post while reading a book called Talent is Overrated. It’s similar to Outliers in that it refutes the myth of innate talent and ability and instead favors the idea that 10,000 hours of practice will make you an expert at anything (an idea which I subscribe to, by the [...]
December 21, 2008 | 8:52 pm | Derk
December has been a pretty shitty month thus far. I moved up, played a ton, and proceeded to drop 60 buyins at the super turbos, which is like 100 of my previous average buyins. Despite all this, according to an EV analyzing program (which I may talk about in more detail as well as some [...]
December 17, 2008 | 1:25 am | steveodwyer
from the collection of Scott Seiver:
November 25, 2008 | 10:21 pm | nachos
I recently finished reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell (who also wrote The Tipping Point and Blink). The book is essentially a critique of those rags-to-riches stories which we all love here in America. It is very popular to put the self-made man on a pedestal and say that so-and-so would be successful no matter when [...]