In December 2008, Juergen Schmidhuber, a German computer scientist, published a paper titled Driven by Compression Progress. This very influential paper, in the study of cross-disciplinary creativity, argued that the simple principle of compression is at the heart of everything. Schmidhuber and his team point […]
I came across a brilliant method to learn and retain new information. It is from Shane Parrish of the blog Farnam Street. Basically, when you are learning something new, from a course or a book, take out a blank sheet of paper and […]
Why is it so hard to learn a new skill in the beginning? When I started blogging three years ago, I struggled a lot. It was taking me 7 to 8 hours to write a post. I would get frustrated, write sentences […]
As I sat with my laptop after dinner, wanting to start writing this post, I got distracted by the docudrama playing on the TV. Titled ‘Becoming Bond’ is a documentary on George Lazenby, who acted as James Bond in the film, On […]
Do you know what we writers lack? Do you know what we writers lack? A proper curriculum to do develop writing skills. Most of us have embarked on writing without any proper training. Some like me got into it because our writing […]