Featured Work
Baseball Prospectus · 2016
A Better Personality Test
Baseball teams spend enormous resources evaluating physical tools. The mental side of the game gets a fraction of that rigor — and it shows.
10 min read
Time Out Chicago · 2012
Perfect Gameplan
How Theo Epstein's front office laid the groundwork for a rebuild that would take a century's curse off the North Side. The April 2012 cover story for Time Out Chicago.
14 min read
All Writing
2026 Change Always learning 5 min →
2014 You Never Know Everything you do counts and matters, even if it seems insignificant. So just ship it as often as you can and see what happens. 8 min →
2014 Writing 1,000 Words a Day A daily writing habit doesn't require inspiration. It requires a number and a deadline. Here's what two weeks of showing up taught me. 5 min →
2014 How to Make Ten Free Throws in a Row A 5:30am run, a blood moon, and an empty gym. What shooting free throws taught me about setting goals the right way. 4 min →
2014 The Power of Prototypes A design looks great. But a prototype tells you if it actually works. Here's why getting interactive feedback earlier changes everything. 5 min →
2011 When It's OK to Disobey Your Boss My boss told me to import hundreds of emails into Excel manually. I spent two and a half hours not doing that. Here's what happened instead. 4 min →