Lifting Featured When Progress Goes Quiet, Your Training Log Speaks Volumes Nothing beats the unmistakable physical sensation that you are stronger than you were yesterday. But how do you stay motivated when you can't feel it?
Product Management Stop Reading This and Start Coding The distance between an idea and a product has never been shorter.
Product Analysis Featured What Calendly Reveals About Human Nature A digression into one of my favorite topics: how we use language to play an invisible game of status
Notes Tyler Cowen on Effective Altruism A summary of Tyler Cowen's talk on the Effective Altruism movement.
Product Analysis Community: The Unfakeable Signal Signals are everywhere. Some are more reliable than others.
Lifting Better Charts for Post-Novice Lifting Analysis As training becomes more complex, how could a lifting app better visualize progress?
Product Analysis Featured The 'I Did That' Effect: Why Gamification (Sometimes) Works Understanding the science of motivation can help us design better products.
Data Did COVID Erase My Endurance Gains? Shortly after I published my last post, I got COVID. How much of my training progress did I lose?
Data It's Nice to be a Novice: Using Data to Identify Endurance Gains I recently decided that some endurance training would be good for me. It’s been fun to experience novice training gains.
Lifting Featured Using Data to Motivate the Post-Novice Lifter Everyone can use a little extra motivation. So let's get creative with PRs.
Storytelling Featured All Understanding is Visual: Why Aristotle Writes With Pictures Imagery in writing is not an accident, but an insight into how our minds work.
Storytelling You Only Get One Triangle: Storytelling Is the Art of Attention Towards a Theory of Storytelling
Product Management Building a Learning Culture: The Problem of Organizational Knowledge Product managers are well positioned to turn organizational learning into a competitive advantage.
Great Books Homer & Helen: My Twenty-Year Odyssey Through the Iliad The Iliad demanded I consider what my life would add up to.
Great Books Resentment in the Oresteia: The Power of the People In a world without kings, where does power come from?
Design A Year on the Bike: 12 Months of Commuting to Work Without a Car Reflecting on a year of behavior change.
Design The 'Science' of Good Design: A Dangerous Idea Designers embrace scientism at their own peril.
