The 1,000-Problem Rule

When I was in 11th grade, I had a math teacher who made me do 1,000 homework problems every three days or so. While this was tremendously unpopular with high-school me, I still remember how to do those math problems to this day. The lessons I learned through writing and repetition stayed with me.

In recent years, I have realized that professional wisdom works the same way. The insights I have reflected on and written down stay with me much longer than those I simply "experienced."

That is why I decided to start writing these essays—to distill simple lessons from complex problems and identify the patterns that remain relevant across different challenges and time.