Beyond the 10000-Hour Rule

By now I’m sure you’ve heard of the 10000-Hour Rule, popularized in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers: You need about 10000 hours of practice to achieve mastery in a given field.

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A Knock On the Door at 1:57AM

What do you do when someone knocks on your door at 1:57AM?

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The Synthesizer Amplitude Envelope: Explanation and Examples

Ever wondered how synthesizers make all those crazy sounds? One way has to do with the amplitude envelope.

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Black Belt

A while ago I posted about one of my goals: achieving black belt.

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Talk About Walkabout

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

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Review: Epson WorkForce DS-560 Document Scanner

Scanning stacks of nasty paper documents into digital form has never been easier, so today I want to take a look at the Epson WorkForce DS-560 Document Scanner to see if it’s up to the job.

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