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Old Running Man
A year ago, I ran my first marathon after a fairly long period of building up a good base of medium-distance running. I’ve long disliked running, don’t get the “runners high”, but I realized a couple of years ago, I needed to find a good way to shed some pounds. I had been getting heavy.…
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Bialetti → Chemex
For the better part of twenty years, I used an old Italian style Bialetti Moka pot espresso maker. I loved it’s simplicity, the coffee strength, the classic design. Heck, that thing is in MOMA. How long it took to brew depended on the stove I used, but after a few tries with a new stove,…
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Time Zone Geography
I was in Missoula, Montana over the summer and loved almost everything about it. But there was one thing that gnawed at me daily. It was the town’s location relative to the time zone boundary. The sun rose so late in the morning that I never felt like I had time to get a good…
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Ingesting Financial Model Feedback
Spent a good hour on a call with a VC’s CFO this morning and it was really helpful to think through all the ways I need to up my game to model our startup’s future. We’ve worked on several iterations and the previous feedback had been that they were too complicated. But to get hung…
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Mental Errors
Perhaps the most important lesson I picked up in all the years of baseball and softball I’ve played: minimize the mental errors. I can have a plan at the start of every at-bat for what happens based on how the number of outs and where runners are. A liner, a hard hit grounder, a softly…
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Coyote On the Golf Course
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Golf Paradise
