How Many Piano Tuners Are There in New York City?

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In job interviews, you have to estimate the size of something you know nothing about. The way to solve these logic problems is by breaking them down into sub goals. If i tried to think of a book as a single manolithic ou kno, hunk of a prose, i would never get anywhere, cause it's too big. So i break it down, okw, here are the chapters, and then within the chapter, i break itdown. Here are the three ideas i want to tell. Here're the two stories i want to telling. Otherwise i would just be staring at a blank screen.

For the last 25 years, writer A.J. Jacobs has attempted to live his life as a human guinea pig.

“I’ve engaged in a series of experiments on my mind and body,” he says, “some of which have been fruitful, some humiliating failures. I’ve tried to understand the world by immersing myself in extraordinary circumstances.”

His book “The Know-It-All” chronicled his experience reading the encyclopedia from cover to cover. To write “The Year of Living Biblically,” he followed every commandment in the Old Testament, including the edicts stone adulterers and avoid shaving the corners of your beard. Now A.J. is back with a new immersive memoir, “The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life.”

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