Ouno: I play a reasonably large amount of chess on my phone at chess dot com. What fascinates me about it is that, inside ind myself, i don't think it's made me smarter. It has allowed me to apply more chess metaphors to things i'm doing. Ouno: There's just no solution for everything and what you talk about in your book is not always the best way to get there.
How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable, including the biggest stumper of all: what it really means to be a human being.