Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same. — Kevin Maney Brain 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 Brain Copy Share Image
Super fidelity requires constant investment and discipline, but great companies know how to do that. — Kevin Maney Company Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows… — Kevin Maney I can Copy Share Image
I'm that tech writer who gets on stage and plays funny tech songs. I wouldn't want that to be all I'm known… — Kevin Maney Bits Copy Share Image
The explosion of the Web and digital media from 1995 to 2000 shook companies more profoundly in a shorter time than anything… — Kevin Maney Company 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… — Kevin Maney Balance Copy Share Image
If you want to stand out, find a way to be either high fidelity or high convenience in whatever you do. If… — Kevin Maney Convenience Copy Share Image
A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that… — Kevin Maney Cds Copy Share Image
Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking… — Kevin Maney Built Copy Share Image
Babies have not yet chunked anything. They aren't doing any high level thinking. All they're doing is sucking in all the data… — Kevin Maney Babies Copy Share Image
Anybody can develop a certain amount of talent at something. However, the supremely talented - the superstars - are people who have… — Kevin Maney Amount Copy Share Image
Our brains seem to have the power to do one or the other - record and remember every detail, or chunk it… — Kevin Maney Brain Copy Share Image
If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high… — Kevin Maney America Copy Share Image
In the long run magazines can't be a convenience play - the Web has stolen that. So magazines have to be high… — Kevin Maney Age Copy Share Image
Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant… — Kevin Maney Deliberate Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence uses a complex set of rules - algorithms - to get to a conclusion. A computer has to calculate its… — Kevin Maney Algorithms 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… — Kevin Maney Ability Copy Share Image
High fidelity is a rich experience, and you'll put up with terrible convenience to get it - maybe it's high cost, waiting… — Kevin Maney Challenges Copy Share Image
Fidelity is the total quality of an experience, including a sense of exclusiveness and aura. Convenience is simply how easy something is… — Kevin Maney Auras Copy Share Image
Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how… — Kevin Maney Concerts Copy Share Image
“...A well-written, well-organized book packages the author's brain. It is the purest, richest, most complete way to take what's inside one person's… — Kevin Maney Art form Copy Share Image
Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable,… — Kevin Maney Aircraft Copy Share Image
Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky… — Kevin Maney Brain Copy Share Image
From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but… — Kevin Maney Book 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… — Kevin Maney Accuracy 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.… — Kevin Maney Amount 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… — Kevin Maney Athlete 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… — Kevin Maney Campus Copy Share Image
