Daily Archives: December 26, 2008

In Mal­colm Gladwell’s new book, Out­liers, he makes an inter­est­ing obser­va­tion. In any rel­a­tively com­plex dis­ci­pline, it takes 10,000 hours of prac­tice to achieve mas­tery. This 10,000 hour rule seems to apply equally to music com­po­si­tion, soft­ware devel­op­ment, writ­ing, sewing, play­ing hockey, … Con­tinue read­ing →