Summary This year I listened to approximately 450 podcast episodes My top 5 listened to podcasts were The Joe Rogan Experience Darknet Diaries Mysterious Universe Lex Fridman Podcast The Jordan Harbinger Show Read 46 books. The five highest rated books - Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of…

Here are my favorite articles, books, and podcasts from 2020 ‎Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard: EXPERTS ON EXPERT: Yuval Noah Harari on Apple Podcasts ‎In this episode of Experts on Expert, the Armchair Expert speaks to author, professor and Israeli historian, Yuval…podcasts.apple.com ‎Jocko Podcast: 221: The Unimaginable Path of Jonny Kim. SEAL Combat Medic, Doctor, Astronaut on… ‎0:00:00 - Opening. The Letter 0:07:22 - Jonny Kim. Combat Medic. 3:44:39 - NASA. 4:09:17 - Final thoughts and…podcasts.apple.com

Patterns in Sports There is no time for thinking in sports. Thinking is just too slow. Reactions must be engrained and subconscious. Consider baseball, America’s pastime. The average fastball of a MLB pitcher is 95 mph. A 95 mph fastball takes 400 milliseconds to reach homeplate. The average human reaction time is 250…

If COVID19 creates a zombie apocalypse, what single sentence can transfer all knowledge of jiu jitsu? Radiolab recently released an episode that started with Richard Feynman’s first lecture in his Introduction to Physics 101 class at CalTech. He starts the lecture by posing a question then answering it: If, in…

vacation Tuesday November 26 It was Denver’s snowiest Thanksgiving in 40 years. This storm dropped so much snow that I had to leave a day early and grab one of the few hotel rooms left. Wednesday November 27 My hotel room neighbors partied all night. They clearly had multiple rooms and went back and forth between…

One ideal goal of data science is to distill analysis to one number when possible. Then use that number to draw conclusions about your data. But this can be a difficult task when your data set is missing values. Simply ignoring missing data can lead to significant statistical power loss…

books, podcasts, and stuff New Reads Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. there are no…

How would humanity face a global crisis? — Everything is relative to a reference frame In the series finale of Game of Thrones Jon Snow faced a choice. A choice between love and duty. Life is a collection of these choices. With every choice comes consequences. Some choices have greater consequences than others, but they all have consequences. Consequences can be good or bad, right…

Measuring fitness is a lot like gerrymandering — it’s all how you look at the data. Gerrymandering is the act of manipulating voting boundaries to influence elections. Could we do the same with the sport of fitness? CrossFit has given us The CrossFit Games. The goal of the ‘Games’ is…