Category: Advice

Many people — especially students, I suspect — have noted that the instantaneous availability of information on the internet makes committing things to memory less useful than it used to be. Edward Tenner, in his book The Efficiency Paradox, suggests that while this may be true, it also means that being able to conduct effective online searches is increasingly important. . . There’s one tip that I’ve repeatedly found helpful. . .

Yesterday I listened one of my favorite podcasts — Freakonomics Radio — and heard an interview with Kevin Kelly, one of the co-founders of Wired magazine. One of Kelly’s blog posts, “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice,” had gone viral. He had posted it on the occasion of his birthday and intended it as a gift to young people in the form of lessons learned over his 68 years. It’s easy to see why the list has proven so popular . . .