What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on June 3, 2018
| 2 minutes
| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
The Biology of Desire The Reading Brain (Why Your Brain Needs You to Read Every Day) - Part of the reason I started making these posts was for personal accountability to read more.
An Advocacy Group for Startups Is Funded by Google and Run by Ex-Googlers - It is always important to know where the money is coming from.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 27, 2018
| 1 minutes
| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
No Pain, No Brain Gain: Why Learning Demands (A Little) Discomfort - Learning needs to be uncomfortable for it to stick.
The Benefits of Admitting When You Don’t Know Built in the Soo: The Kyle Dubas story - Dubas has been painted as an analytics guy but he started out as a scout who was willing to challenge conventional wisdom.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 20, 2018
| 2 minutes
| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Debiasing the corporation: An interview with Nobel laureate Richard Thaler - Interview with Richard Thaler on how to combat biases to make better decisions. Key items include writing stuff down to keep a record of the thought process that led to a decision and welcoming opposing view points to avoid making mistakes you would have never considered.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 13, 2018
| 2 minutes
| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Here’s How to Get Better at It. - Learning how to learn helps you get better at learning new things. Setting specific targets, stopping to think if you really understand something and reflecting on what you have learned are all things you can do to help improve your ability to learn.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on May 6, 2018
| 3 minutes
| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
On Coaching #74: Alex Hutchinson - Good podcast on the balance between going by the watch and training by feel in distance running. As someone who may sometimes go too far on the feel end of things, there was a lot of good stuff in here.
Hockey Analytics: A Game-Changing Perspective - This book focuses on the next steps for hockey analytics emphasizing three key areas - transition, clear paths and power plays.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on April 29, 2018
| 2 minutes
| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Glitch Capitalism: How Cheating AIs Explain Our Glitchy Society - When you train a machine learning model, sometimes it comes up with a model that solves the problem by finding a loop hole that doesn’t really solve the problem.
Endure - A book by Alex Hutchinson , a former national level distance runner in Canada, on pushing the limits of human performance.
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What I Read or Listened to This Week
Posted on April 22, 2018
| 2 minutes
| Darryl Blackport
Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
Everyone Wants To Go Home During Extra Innings — Maybe Even The Umps - Analysis showing that in extra innings the team closer to winning gets more favourable calls on balls and strikes. I would guess some unconscious biases are at play here.
Science’s “Reproducibility Crisis” Is Being Used as Political Ammunition - This part stood out to me ‘…the reproducibility debate has already been exploited by political activists.
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