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 ….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there's a d….

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

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

Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked hocke….

Super fidelity requires constant investment and discipline, but great companies know how to do that..

Eventually, we need to have computers that work differently from the way they do today and have for the past 60-plus years. We're capturing and gener….

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….

High fidelity is a rich experience, and you'll put up with terrible convenience to get it - maybe it's high cost, waiting in line, jumping through ho….

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….

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….

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….

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..

We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better..