I was always inspired by this cartoon from bonkersworld.net. How does the structure of an organization affect how information spreads in it? What crazy model would we need to capture connectivity, hierarchies, team sizes, cores, etc? arxiv.org/abs/2203.00745

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What makes a champion? An analysis of over 6,000 athletes found distinct differences between those who made it to world-class versus those who didn't progress from child star. Similar research has been done on one-hit wonders and Nobel Laureates. Here's what they found:

This thread should be required reading for anyone who dares to wade into this debate. Thanks Steve Magness for treating it with respect but staying science-based

Kudos to the The Atlantic for doing a better job than most academic journals, and publishing some great writing by Steve Magness

Apparently JMAR never heard of Steve Jones and his half-marathon world record when hungover spikes.worldathletics.org/post/steve-jon…

I'm an obsessive note-taker. Every year I have hundreds of pages of ideas scribbled in my notebooks. At the end of the year, I go through them and summarize my key takeaways. 14 lessons learned in 2022:

What makes a champion? New analysis of over 6,000 athletes finds those who got to world-class, had during their youth: -more multisport than specialized practice -started their main sport later -accumulated less practice -Initially progressed slower than national class peers

Social media CAUSES mental illness, especially heavy use, especially in girls. I lay out the longitudinal and experimental evidence for causality in my latest post at the After Babel Substack: jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media…

Vaguely terrified but definitely thrilled to be doing this next week.

Running helps create two skills that are increasingly rare: 1. When running by yourself, it helps create an ability to be alone inside of your head for a long time. 2. When running with others, you learn to fill time with conversation instead of defaulting to your phone.

"digital sabbath and carry a burner flip-phone" love it 😆

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I just dropped this hot new track at #positconf2023 Snoop vs Biggie battle on the subject of R vs Python (With a little help from AI)

Wow ... published on this topic (albeit much smaller sample) 10 years ago jstor.org/stable/43495190 Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets nature.com/articles/d4158…

The late management guru Edward Deming observed, “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” The U.S. is tops in elite sports performance but gets a C for youth sports participation and D for gov’t support. Very proud of this research, a comparative

I don't think we appreciate how much NIL is changing sports. It's get paid to play now. It's already making HS/transfer recruiting nuts. And it's going to make HS/travel/youth sports even more insane. The payout is sooner & more diverse. We're not prepared for it.

Using excel to do calculations is like pipetting by mouth - convenient, usually fine, but sometimes you ingest an ectoparasite and lose $92 million

Exactly so. Act more normal and chill out.