Billy Oppenheimer
SIX at 6: Reverse Indicators, The Size of Shadows, Desirable Difficulties, Eating Bad Fish, Getting Sorkinized, and The Stag Fable
SIX at 6: James’ Equation, Ridiculously Out Of Proportion, Permission To Be Free, An Anti-Pep Pep Talk, Self-Loathing As Arrogance, and The Fraction of Life
SIX at 6: The Best Things, Instant Traction, What Writing Really Is, A Theory Of The Human Mind, The Final Determining Factor, and The Special Revelation
SIX at 6: Solving The Wrong Problem, Pinched Nerves, Having The Legs, Talking The Way The Kid Talks, Cutting It In Half, and When People Say That Something Is Wrong
SIX at 6: The Bottom-Up Approach, The Description Of Ideas, A Very Misguided Idea, “Let’s Find Out,” See What Happens, and Start With The First Thing
SIX at 6: Protecting Your Instincts, Incorrectly On Purpose, Seeking Reassurance, Skin Thickness, A Fundamental Idea, and Unique Signatures
SIX at 6: A Certain Daring, A Stupid Bravery, Finding Dwight, That Period Of Not Being Good, Being The Freak, and An Underexplored Emotion
SIX at 6: The Two Kinds of Happiness, Summing Up To Disaster, More Good Tuesdays, Getting To Boring, The Good Life Ratio, and The Overall Character Of Our Lives
SIX at 6: Ends As Means, Draining The Good Out Of Things, A Polarity of Reaction, A Useful Tool, The Pleasures Of Striving, and The End Of A Melody
SIX at 6: Small Choices, A Gust Of Wind, The Cootie Department, The Things That Change Your Life, Uncovering The Elephant, and Becoming Accident-Prone
SIX at 6: Being Richard Cory, Making A Flawless Masterpiece, The Language of Filmmaking, The Coffee Beans Procedure, A Meticulously Assembled Illusion, and The Real Life Beneath All Appearances
SIX at 6: False Trails, Wasted Efforts, Ruling Things Out, Long Periods of Frustration, Learning To Know Your Resources, and The Vein Running Through All That Is Worthwhile
SIX at 6: Like It’s The First Time, Everything’s Just Bricklaying, Trying To Have the Time of Your Life, The Effect of Enthusiasm, Doing It When You Don’t Want To, and The Best And Hardest Thing We Do
SIX at 6: The Initial Agitation, The Essence of Mastery, Starting With Shit, The Natural State, The Psychic Wall, and The Second Effort
SIX at 6: “The Point,” What The World Doesn’t Need, Wasting Your Time, A Beautiful Teaching, A Come-To-Jesus Moment, and The Constantly Miserable
SIX at 6: Going Through The Trouble, Possessors Of Mysterious Secrets, A Glorious Decade Of Awkwardness, A Tragic Mistake, A Very Bad Sign, and Traveling To The Moon And Back
SIX at 6: Getting Things Cooking, Going To The Frontier of Confusion, Making Contact With Reality, Mapping Out The Whole 9 Innings, A Bad Way To Go Through Life, and Acting Before You Think
SIX at 6: An Unconstrained Life, Withdrawing From The World, Spinning Off The Planet, Cutting Daisies, Airless Space, and What Gives Life Its Bones
SIX at 6: Things Going Well, Castles In The Air, The Broken Shark, The Way Things Look, A Farmer’s Luck, and Getting Unlucky With The Weather
SIX at 6: Putting Ourselves Together, Not Knowing Who You Are, Mistaking Self-Exploration As Self-Expression, A Certain Kind of Personality, The Rock Tumbler Metaphor, and Harvesting Your Identity
SIX at 6: Mental Moves, Funny-Stupid Goals, Getting Unblocked, Forgetting To Panic, Hacking Your Brain, and What Governs Every Human Response
SIX at 6: Roman’s Eye, Looking At Fish, Spotting Exceptional Information, Things Waiting To Be Discovered, A Gentleman In A Hotel Lobby, and Putting On Art Eyes
SIX at 6: A Fact of Life, A Basic Law, An Impossibility, An Inescapable Checkpoint, The Nature of Love, and A Migratory Animal
SIX at 6: The Right Grip, The Inevitable Collision, Things Going Well, Having Nothing To Lose, Who Cares?, and Caring But Not That Much
SIX at 6: The Man In The Car, Stuff That Doesn’t Work, Expensive Purchases, Giving Permission, Winning Bald, and A Valuable Form of Freedom
SIX at 6: Imperceptible Progress, Tracking Your Efforts, The Rope Bridge, A Gift To Your Future Self, Suspending Judgment, and Cultivating The Wilderness
SIX at 6: Hating Shakespeare, The Other Half of You, A Problematic Story, A Happy-Inducing Story, A Second Opinion, and The Power Broker In Your Life
SIX at 6: Process Versus Product, What MSCHF Celebrates, The Most Important Change, The Dance of Doing It, The Costs Of Outsourcing, and The Ashes of Art
SIX at 6: Doing Time, Making A Mess, Getting Better, Breaking Through The Psychic Wall, No Signs Of Making It, and The Usual Words Beyond Talent
SIX at 6: Being Solicitous, Alone At The Masters, Stealing Sean’s Line, Picking Up The Phone, An Entirely Different Life, and Getting To The Outside
SIX at 6: Knock Knock, Finding The Doors, Making Your Turn, Waiting For Permission, Breaking Through, and How Things Get Done In This World
SIX at 6: Rilke’s Swan, The Antidote To Exhaustion, An Incognito Musician, A Career-Defining Realization, A Really Fundamental Idea, and Different People In Different Situations
SIX at 6: The Nature of Magic, An Astonishing Imagination, Djokovic’s “Gift,” Making It Look Easy, A Second And 34 Years, and Visible Manifestations
SIX at 6: Intelligence Follows Interest, A Terrible Attention Span, A Disagreeable Task, C.S. Lewis’s Advice, A Way To Think of Success, and The General
SIX at 6: Completely Different Worlds, Doing Different Things, LeBron’s Success, Comparing Your Life, The Cure For Envy, and The Challenge In Life
SIX at 6: Generic Machinery, Becoming More Aggressive, The Idea Muscle, The Same Person Throughout, Morning Pages, and Always Practicing
SIX at 6: Lowering The Stakes, Bad Poetry, Coal Miners, What’s The Big Deal?, The Down-Up Theory, and Premeditated Resentments
SIX at 6: Physicalizing, The One Call, Getting It Cooking, Groundless Fears, The Spooky Basement Fridge, and
SIX at 6: In Praise Of Doing Things Inefficiently, What You Can’t Be Efficient With, And Then?, Wasting Time, The Inefficient Way, and The Issue With Speed
SIX at 6: Not Obsessing Over Tiny Predictors, Spreadable Butter, Good Songs, The Wrong Things, Tiny Changes, and Advice Nobody Ever Takes
SIX at 6: Furniture Making As Self-Making, The “Matrix” Theory, Taxi Drivers, Practicing, The Project, and The Stamp of Nature
SIX at 6: Situational Vs. Existential Problems, The Hole Inside, The Luxury Of Unhappiness, Missing Out, Cutting Daisies, and Lasting Happiness
SIX at 6: The Law of the Universe, The Kahnweiler Technique, The Picasso Technique, Dopey Ideas, Hanging in The Laboratory, and A Motto
SIX at 6: Losing Every Other Point, Crappy Rejected Ideas, Catching A Wave, Not Lingering Over A Setback, Handling The Terror, and Bumbling And Failing
SIX at 6: The Ordeal of Change, The Amount Of Enthusiasm, Doing It When You Don’t Want To, The Parts That Aren’t Fun, The Psychic Wall, and The Only Lasting Fuel
SIX at 6: A Dividing Line Between Success And Failure, Staring At A Word, The Creating Brain, A Productivity Trick, A Night of Pure Boredom, and Periods of Nondoing
SIX at 6: Ruining Breakfast But Not Lunch, Showering Off A Bad Day, Pulling Yourself Back Up, The Next Note, The Next Play, and A Prescription For Misery
SIX at 6: The Common Denominator, Tricking Yourself, Turning Every Page, From The Neck-Down, Madame Butterfly, and The Big Secret
The Common Denominator of Success
SIX at 6: Mirrored Reciprocation, Nichols’ Turning Point, Nooyi’s Mentors, Huang’s Past, Honnold’s Brain, and The Fruits of Action
SIX at 6: The Taste Gap, Closing The Gap, A Proud Failure, Staying On The F*cking Bus, The Frontier Of Uncertainty, and Being Bad
SIX at 6: Resulting, An Inconsequential Ripoff, 99.9% Of The Time, The Bullseye, The Process Of Unmaking, and The Ashes of Life
SIX at 6: Fields of Uncertainty, An Anti-Pep Pep Talk, 98.5% of Jokes, The Delusion Of Perfection, “That Won’t Work,” and The Greatest Disease The Mind Faces
SIX at 6: Surfing Through Life, Fighting The Future, The Lost Generation, Agassi’s Hairpiece, What Everyone Else Is Doing, and Getting Lucky With The Weather
SIX at 6: Start Close In, The Cab Ritual, Sounding Like Bruce, A Bird, A Brick, and Driving At Night
SIX at 6: How He Does It, The First Rule of Compounding, Planting Seeds, Getting Back To Work, Tied Down, and The Marshmallows
SIX at 6: Adopting Prejudices, An Inherited Enclosure, A Waste of Time, A Convenient Assumption, A Unique Style, and Folklore
SIX at 6: Epiphenomena, Working With Enthusiasm, The Real Project, Man’s Search For Success, Where Confidence Comes From, and How Emotions Are Made
SIX at 6: Relative Evaluations, Relative Deprivation, A Dreaded Question, A Ridiculous Comparison, What Everyone Starts With, and The Comparison Effect
SIX at 6: Necessary Selfishness, An Invented Myth, A Negligent Emailer, A Common Mistake, A Missed Birthday Party, and A Gigantic Aspect of Survival
SIX at 6: On Account of Relationships, King’s Muse, Sondheim’s Laugh, Lewis’s Eagerness, Guinzburg’s Belief, and Adam’s Lonely Paradise
SIX at 6: Swing Your Swing, The Incorrect Way You Like, Some Essential “Me-Ness,” Not Ticking Every Box, “Alaska,” and A Special Quality Everyone Possesses
SIX at 6: The Follow-Up, Staying With It, A Striking Lack of Talent, A Certain Kind of Personality, A Proud Failure, and The Second Effort
SIX at 6: The Deceptive Nature of Things, An Unusual Asset, What You Don’t See, What’s Impossible To Know, The Things That Change Your Life, and Nonchoosing
SIX at 6: Being Great Wherever You Are, Acing It Just For Fun, Acting Like A Singer, The Final No, The Frog Float, and What Chris Rock Always Tells People
SIX at 6: The Reality of What Appears Magical, Solving The Problem Too Fast, How Dylan’s Songs Got Here, Glacial Processes, Whispering, and The Big Secret
SIX at 6: The Third Chair, A Year of 365 Contributions, The Idea Of Unrealized Dreams, Cancelling Everything, The Curie’s Pact, and The Fruit Of Preliminary Work