Scott H Young

My experiences after ditching social media for several months. Here's what I miss and what I really, really don't.

I’m working on a new writing project, based on some of the ideas I’ve written about in Do the Real Thing, The Hard Way is the Easy Way and the chapter on directness in Ultralearning. The basic idea is that instead of doing the real thing we need to improve, we often get stuck on […]

Review and summary of the key ideas in Cal Newport's latest book, A World Without Email. Recommended reading.

Studying a subject can be tricky, but no subject is harder than learning about ourselves. Here are two paths forward.