Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how great the experience is. Convenience is how easy it is to get something. A live concert is a… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was… — Kevin Maney Copy Share
Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Some of what we're learning suggests a balance between exposing children to new things, yet giving them a chance to repeatedly experience something they… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Eventually, we need to have computers that work differently from the way they do today and have for the past 60-plus years. We're capturing… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it to higher… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Chunking is the ability of the brain to learn from data you take in, without having to go back and access or think about… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better. — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
When someone is in a state of flow, that person's brain is not thinking about anything - it's just processing things through chunks at… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have married a… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
