Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher level concepts and forget the deta….

Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or ….

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought that seemed like an iffy way to t….

Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly tak….

In the long run magazines can't be a convenience play - the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high fidelity - a fantastic experience - to ….

Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data they experience in the ….

Some of what we're learning suggests a balance between exposing children to new things, yet giving them a chance to repeatedly experience something t….

Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same..

Chunking is the ability of the brain to learn from data you take in, without having to go back and access or think about all that data every time. As….

Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a gift of….

The explosion of the Web and digital media from 1995 to 2000 shook companies more profoundly in a shorter time than anything since the end of World W….

Who "wins" and who "loses" depends on when you measure it..

I'm that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn't want that to be all I'm known for, but it's a bit of a differentiator..

I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I….

When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at a total instin….

If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportuni….

Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how grea….

A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anym….

Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, tho….

I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows it wasn't math..

Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its way through all those rule….