In what may be the best sports-related article I’ve ever read, Michael Lewis in the New York Times Magazine tells the story of Shane Battier, a legendary high-school and college basketball star who has terrible stats in the NBA, but is an exceptional talent. Battier plays smart, and was signed to the Houston Rockets by a smart management team who has tapped into measuring the right statistics in the game. In any endeavor, if you can collect and measure meaningful statistics and act accordingly, you’ll have a significant advantage of those who work hard, but do it blindly.
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⚡ December 16, 2020If you like end-of-year lists as much as I do, then you need to know about Largehearted Boy.
⚡ November 2, 2020VOTE! “The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.” Louis Brandeis.
⚡ October 8, 2020RIP Eddie Van Halen.
⚡ May 21, 2020 ⚡ May 6, 2020Cleaned up a bunch of dead video embeds on posts from year’s past.
⚡ May 3, 2020Kevin Kelly’s “68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice” is full of gems, pinned here for future and frequent reference.
⚡ June 28, 2019The Galaxy Buds are great devices. They may not be quite as seamless as AirPods, but they come close for Samsung phone users. Our augmented future includes computers in our ears.
⚡ February 26, 2019Foldable screens are here, but the products are very early versions. I expect I’ll buy something foldable no earlier than 2021.
⚡ May 19, 2018File under “I should have done this year’s ago”. I added favicons to my Favorites page.
⚡ April 16, 2018I added “Asides…” to the site’s sidebar using some custom code for WordPress, leveraging Post Type. Read more here.
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