You’re Not Lazy, You’re Misinformed

Let’s stop blaming ourselves and start using better math

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea of 10,000 hours to reach mastery. Our ever-competitive culture latched onto it and crowned it the gold standard for getting good at stuff.

Humans have an unyielding ability to boil overly complex things down to snappy punchlines that miss the point and blow up in our faces entirely. Hell, most c…