For years, I’ve been meaning to write this book, a compilation of the most influential chapters of in life. The more I go on living, though, the less it seems possible that I’ll settle into a plateau…

The difference between polymaths and people like me, people who are just interested in too many subjects, is mastery. Polymaths become masters in a bunch of fields, like Leonardo da Vinci did. But to become…

Zach does this thing he calls “chumming.” It’s not like baiting the water or stirring it so the fish come up. It’s more like poking you in the stomach when you least expect it. In…