The Beatles and friend in Hamburg, May 1962 Getting to those 10,000 hours at double speed. In the course of (as the kids say) "chopping it up" in the comments, I stumbled on a topic that I'd like to (re-) address. It's one that I've talked about incessantly on this blog, but it suddenly occurred to me that after all the posts and all the comments over the years, I might never have explained why. At one point I was fascinated by the intersection of The Beatles and addiction, and wrote about it a lot here. Even though you could [...]