Everything Ever Thought Of

It’s more fun to think about being good at something than to actually do the work to get good. Thus we daydream, rather than take action.

The problem is that daydreaming alone doesn’t lead anywhere. None of the projects we imagine but never work on are ever realized. This ...

The quiz is the oldest TV format of them all; the earliest TV shows were quizzes adapted from the radio.

There are probably four rules to a good quizshow:

• The game’s got to work; there’s got to be something intrinsic about it that sustains itself, day in, day out...

• If you weren’t working here, what would you probably be doing right now?
• How did you become a [job title]?
• What’s the craziest thing a boss has ever asked you to do?
• If you were guaranteed to be successful, what job would you want?
• What was your first job...