The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

This book by Samuel Arbesman was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Maurice Ashley. It comes up in conversations about focus & dopamine, motivation & discipline, productivity & performance. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

"A new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful"--

• “there is a book called The Half-Life of Facts... by Samuel Arbesman... It's such a great book for what you just talked about.”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “It's such a great book for what you just talked about”
  Maurice Ashley · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 202001:43:28

  Said during "Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, The Path and Strategies of World-Class Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Maurice Ashley: Maurice Ashley is the first African-American International Grandmaster in chess history, a three-time national-championship coach, author, ESPN commentator, and speaker. Born in Jamaica and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame in 2016. Grandmaster Maurice Ashley traces his path from Brooklyn chess hustles to history-making mastery, plus lessons on focus, teaching, and lifelong reinvention.