I’m going to tell you a story that may or may not have taken place at Costco. It’s a story so wild that it may or may not have ever happened. Actually, who am I kidding? I totally made this shit up.
We Live in a Quantum World
In quantum mechanics, there is a theory that the mere observation of a phenomenon inevitably changes that phenomenon. It’s called the Observer effect. I think it not only exists at the atomic level, but also plays out in all aspects of our world. Earlier today, I tweeted an observation on Twitter: If enough people see […]
Make It Anything You Want
Once, a long time ago, I took MBA classes at a business college. My classmates hated this one professor because he didn’t use the textbook to teach. He was an old fella, I think 72 years old at the time, and he would just tell stories for the entire hour of each class. His stories […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume III
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
Meet the 2019 Heroes of Baseball
Each winter, I pore over the stats and select five new players to join the Heroes of Baseball. I look mainly at All-Star Game appearances and Wins Above Replacement—relative to peers—to make my choices. A player that I select to be a Hero of Baseball is an active player who is about halfway into an […]
Ultimate Water Physics Novelty Device
Water is a remarkable compound. It expands and floats instead of sinks when it becomes a solid. It will pull itself through a siphon. It’s a universal solvent. Because of its unique and amazing properties, water can do a lot of things that don’t make sense unless you understand the science behind it all. There’s […]