Habit Chess Newsletter 3 highlights to think on today: Reading is timeless tech: “The irony is that we can still read a manuscript patiently copied over ten centuries ago, but we can no longer watch a video or see the contents of a disc recorded just in the last few years, unless we keep all our successive computers and recording equipment in rooms full of junk in our homes, like a museum of obsolescence. Let’s not forget that the book has been our ally for centuries in a war that is absent...

How to Make Reading Fun Again Welcome to the Habit Chess newsletter where I talk about training everyday skills to make moves. read time: ~2-3 minutes If we don’t make reading fun again, we just won’t read. And if we stop reading, it’s more than just losing a hobby. We lose access to empathy, perspective, and entire universes of knowledge that humanity fought hard to preserve. Our information diets become all sugar, no protein. We miss out on learning from the mistakes of others. That makes...

Time Investing 101 Welcome to the Habit Chess newsletter where I talk about training everyday skills to make moves. read time: ~5-6 minutes In 1913 at Ford’s Highland Park plant, building a single Model T took around 12.5 hours. The work was divided into stations, but workers still had to walk, fetch parts, reposition tools, and move around the car itself. The process worked—but it wasn’t designed for flow. Later that year, Ford’s team introduced a moving assembly line. Instead of workers...