english
There's a myth about writing that nearly everyone believes. The myth goes like this: good writers sit down, stare at the screen for a moment, and then genius flows out. The words come easily because the writer is talented. The first thing they write is close to the
english
Every argument you've ever won or lost used one of three tools. You probably didn't know which one you were using, and you almost certainly didn't know which one the other person was using on you. That's the difference between someone who
english
Every argument you've ever won or lost used one of three tools. You probably didn't know which one you were using, and you almost certainly didn't know which one the other person was using on you. That's the difference between someone who
english
A book represents somewhere between two and ten years of someone's concentrated thinking, compressed into roughly eight hours of reading. That's the exchange rate. No course, no video, no conversation offers anything close to that ratio. When you read a book, you're getting the
english
A book represents somewhere between two and ten years of someone's concentrated thinking, compressed into roughly eight hours of reading. That's the exchange rate. No course, no video, no conversation offers anything close to that ratio. When you read a book, you're getting the
english
English class feels like it's about old books. It's actually about the single most leveraged skill you can develop. And the strange thing is, almost nobody frames it that way while you're sitting in the classroom. Here's a number that should change
english
English class feels like it's about old books. It's actually about the single most leveraged skill you can develop. And the strange thing is, almost nobody frames it that way while you're sitting in the classroom. Here's a number that should change
history
At the beginning of this series, we showed you two events two thousand years apart that followed the same script -- Tiberius Gracchus in Rome and the French Revolution. We said that once you see the pattern, you can't unsee it. You've now spent nine articles
history
At the beginning of this series, we showed you two events two thousand years apart that followed the same script -- Tiberius Gracchus in Rome and the French Revolution. We said that once you see the pattern, you can't unsee it. You've now spent nine articles
history
Everything in this series has been leading to this question: if history runs on cycles, where are we in the cycle right now? It's a fair question. It's also the one where historical pattern recognition stops being an academic exercise and starts being a tool for
history
Everything in this series has been leading to this question: if history runs on cycles, where are we in the cycle right now? It's a fair question. It's also the one where historical pattern recognition stops being an academic exercise and starts being a tool for
history
Here's a fact that should reframe everything you've ever read in a textbook: the history you learned in school was chosen. Someone decided what went in and what stayed out. Someone decided which perspective got centered and which got a footnote. Someone decided which events were