What I’m Reading – Future Perfect
When you give people more control over the flow of information and decision making in their communities, their social health improves — incrementally, in fits and starts, but also inexorably. Steven Johnson Peer to Peer is the central theme of the internet, but has broad scope impacts in other domains like businesses or team settings. […]
What I’m Reading – Work Rules
In a previous blog I reviewed the book Working Backwards on how Amazon creates a framework for hiring, managing, and retaining employees. Work Rules is a very similar concept, except from Google. I am attracted to these books because I am a business owner. However, there are universal aspects of running a business that apply […]
What I’m Reading – Movements that Heal
This book was referenced on the CVASPS podcast, which caught my attention on application of spatial and visual skill development for motor learning. Back story of this book is definitely centered on the concept that neurological issues with kids such as ADD, ADHD, Dyslexia, Autism, or general social problems. The premise is that symptoms can […]
What I’m Reading – Strength training and coordination: an integrative approach
I recently spoke on a Panel for the Dodgers Sport Symposium and got access to the lectures. The Dodgers staff discussed the usage of water bags with their athletes and developing more robust motor patterns. The premise was to give feedback to the athletes on some specific movement patterns used during competition. I wanted to […]
What I’m Reading: MVP Machine
I was recommended this book by Brandon McDaniel of the Los Angeles Dodgers. I was personally blown away by how far baseball S&C has evolved in the last decade when I attended the Dodgers Symposium in December. He cited some really good resources as to how he and the Dodgers have created a very holistic […]
What I’m Reading – Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
The big take home is that humans create noise because we have bias. That bias leads to statistical variance which is called ‘Noise.’ This is important because what we do still has a lot of human decision-making, which can lead to increased noise. On the front end of knowing, we are influenced by our own […]
What I’m Reading: Stop Being Reasonable
We work in the influence business. We have to change people’s behaviors from negative to positive. An important concept that I pulled from Smith was that perspective is overwhelmingly the biggest factor. One of the areas that Smith discussed was males ‘catcalling’ females walking by. What Smith was trying to understand is why men thought […]
What I Am Reading – Boundless
For the record, this book is more of an encyclopedia than a single subject book. This is an excellent resource for a lot of areas around performance and health. Personally, I struggle with these types of books. My general feeling is that these types of books come out as a watered-down version of really high […]
What I’m Reading – The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
This is an engineering book. The idea of thinking like an engineer is built upon learning how an engineer thinks. A key excerpt from this book was computer programming. Information theory is a central theme for computer science. The idea is that there is a logical sequence in which computer programs communicate. What I found […]
What I’m Reading – Great Mental Models Vol III
I’m a big fan of this series. This is Volume 3, and I can say that Volume 1 & 2 were fantastic. Volume three was a deep dive into different mathematical models which was especially fun for me. My first degree is a bachelors in mathematics. A lot of these models were fun to look […]