By Peter Norvig
There appear to be no real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took 13 more years before he began to produce world-class music.
— Peter Norvig
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, Peter Norvig.
Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google and co-author of the leading textbook on artificial intelligence. This essay is a response to the proliferation of “learn programming in 24 hours” books, arguing that real expertise takes about ten years to develop.
World Class
The expression “world class” gets casually thrown around, like a frisbee at the beach. But what does it really mean?
Long Enough
How would treating time as a variable that we can influence change the way we behave and the choices we make?