I use this site to deconstruct how things work:

1. I pick a skill I want to be good at.
2. I research and experiment to uncover its principles. I question the assumptions behind its conventional teaching.
   
3. "The difference between knowledge and wisdom is experience,” so I get my hands dirty and experiment.
4. I rewrite until I have a handbook that is interesting, concise, and effective.
5. I post updates to Twitter along the way.
6. I release the handbook for free. Each takes around 500 hours. They're read by over one million people every year.

You can read the handbooks, listen to the podcast, or get my newsletter.

“I had lunch with a producer a few years ago. At some point, I said, 'Every film I do, I have to believe that I’m making the best film that’s ever been made.' He was absolutely shocked by this. It never occurred to him that someone would think like that. And that, to me, was truly shocking—because films are really hard to make. They're all-consuming. Your family life and everything else goes into it for two years. So it had never occurred to me that there were people doing it who weren’t trying to make the best film that ever was. Why would you otherwise? Even if it’s not going to be the best film that’s ever been made, you have to believe it could.” —Christopher Nolan

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