Scott H Young

Humans crave progress. This helps us feel productive, but it distorts our attention away from thorny problems onto easier to-do lists.

A selection of books I've found interesting, about the topics of learning-by-doing, apprenticeship and transfer.

Why do brilliant minds burn out? I explore the idea that creative work requires past digging. But what to do when the water runs out?

I recently came across the following Nature article, “People systematically overlook subtractive changes.” From the abstract: “Here we show that people systematically default to searching for additive transformations, and consequently overlook subtractive transformations. Across eight experiments, participants were less likely to identify advantageous subtractive changes … Defaulting to searches for additive changes may be one […]