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The variety isn’t just motivating—it’s also better for learning. Hundreds of experiments show that people improve faster when they alternate between different skills. Psychologists call it interleaving, and it works in areas ranging from painting to math, especially when the skills being developed are similar or complex. Even small tweaks, like shifting between thinner and thicker paintbrushes or slightly adjusting the weight of a basketball, can make a big difference.
Hidden Potential
Adam Grant
Another great source for bargains includes the unlikely niche of stocks coming out of bankruptcy.
The Big Secret for the Small Investor
Joel Greenblatt
But for the most part, by 2016 the U.S. intelligence community still assumed that America’s capabilities far exceeded those of the opposition. The Kremlin was testing out the best of its cyber arsenal in Ukraine, and as far as American counterintelligence specialists could tell, Russia was still nowhere close to the cyber skills of the USA. And it might have stayed that way for some time. For how long exactly, no one could predict; but between 2016 and 2017 the gap between the United States’ cyber capabilities and those of every single other nation and bad-faith actor on earth closed substantially. Starting in 2016, the U.S. National Security Agency’s own cyber arsenal—the sole reason the United States maintained its offensive advantage in cyberspace—was dribbled out online by a mysterious group whose identity remains unknown to this day. Over a period of nine months a cryptic hacker—or hackers; we still don’t know who the NSA’s torturers are—calling itself the Shadow Brokers started trickling out NSA hacking tools and code for any nation-state, cybercriminal, or terrorist to pick up and use in their own cyber crusades.
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
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