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
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 →