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PUZZLES: What Crosswords, Riddles, and Wordle Can Teach You About the Meaning of Life

The Next Big Idea

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How Many Piano Tuners Are There in New York City?

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.

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