Everyone wants advanced techniques. But it’s really the basics that count.

Ten books about learning, history, neuroscience and innovation.

Time for learning can feel like a luxury. After a long day, it often feels like there isn’t energy for anything other than watching television and falling asleep. Who has time to learn philosophy, French or painting? Yet our peak experiences come when we expand our thinking. Without learning, life is stale. Below are seven […]

Learning, it seems, is optimized for both humans and machines when we succeed around 85% of the time. From a recent paper by Wilson, Shenhav, Straccia and Cohen: In many situations we find that there is a sweet spot in which training is neither too easy nor too hard, and where learning progresses most quickly. […]