Ikechukwu Uzondu is a Nigerian immigrant struggling to make ends meet in New York City. He graduated cum laude from Amherst in economics, but xenophobic/provincial attitudes about his accent have kept him from finding a high-powered money job in Manhattan. Instead, he’s driving a cab and ducking increasingly desperate emails from his sister about their mother’s financial straits. But Ike–pronounced EE-kay, not “eye-k”–has a plan. He’s heard of a gallery in New York that sells diety paraphernalia. He’ll run home to Nigeria, grab the local […]
Is gaslighting less expensive than electric lighting?
Chloe is bad at dating. No, really. You think, “well, a lot of folks are bad at dating”. I assure you, Chloe is fantastically bad. She tells knock knock jokes when she gets nervous, which you want to excuse because she’s a second grade teacher, but mostly, you want to pat her on the back and suggest that she try movie dates rather than coffee dates. Boyd, in the way of romance heroes, is amused by how awkward Chloe is because Chloe is also quite hot (yet unaware of this, […]
Look, ten thousand hours is a lot of hours. A lot.
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell used Anders Ericsson’s research (with Ralf Krampe and Clemens Tesch-Römer) as the basis for the “ten thousand hour rule”. By this rule, it takes some ten thousand hours of practice to master a practice/field. With Peak, Ericsson vigorously defends his work against this mischaracterization. Ericsson carefully dismantles the notion that time or talent are all it takes to make it to the top of the game, be the game chess, memory competitions, running, writing, tennis, or pretty much any endeavor. Ericsson […]
Oh, look, another douchebag hero. Quelle surprise!
Guinevere Poe is living her best life. She’s a successful artist whose pieces sell for millions and engaged to a very hot, very rich man. Eli Davenport is also living his best life. He’s a top neurosurgeon and about to marry a very hot, very rich doctor. It all starts going wrong when Guinevere’s fiance runs off with Eli’s bride-to-be. During the ceremony. Awkward.