Did Balzac Flood France With Slop?
Honorรฉ de Balzac produced roughly ninety completed works totaling something like four million words in a little over two decades. Today, that kind of output looks suspicious. If an unknown…
Richard Is your sales page an optical illusion?
Arrange three black circles with wedges missing, their openings facing inward, and something curious appears: a white triangle. Its edges seem visible, although nobody drew them. This is the Kanizsa…
Bad Things Come to Those Who Wait
For months, I felt trapped in a recurring nightmare. I went through seven job interviews across three different school districts, and every one followed the same script. I would put…
Feed Your Muse Something Disgusting
Expose yourself to work you donโt immediately like. That means deliberately seeking out art, ideas, styles, and expressions that repel you, confuse you, or simply bore you. If you love…
All Roads Lead To Proof
Rome did not prove its engineering skill with one impressive road. It proved it by building roads again and again. By the time Roman engineers began another road, bridge, aqueduct,…