Richard Whittall·Mar 5, 2019What makes good teams good?Right now, there seem to be two, major tectonic plates grinding past each other in the football analytics world. One, which relies on…
Richard Whittall·Jan 11, 2019Football analytics is just as human a pursuit as man managementHere’s another one, from Jonathan Wilson:
Richard Whittall·Oct 31, 2018On the Way People Tweet Out Alarming Climate Change NewsThis won’t be a long post, but I’m writing it because I don’t feel like writing a twitter thread (ironically obviously as this is a post…
InPlease Like My MusicbyRichard Whittall·Oct 23, 2018Everything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog — Andrew Kazdin, Thomas Z. Shepard (1972)Welcome to the first post of Please Like My Music, an utterly self-indulgent series in which I talk about the albums I have come to know…A response icon1A response icon1
Richard Whittall·Oct 22, 20188 ways in which this a typical Medium productivity post1. It opens with some sort of pleasant landscape photograph
Richard Whittall·Sep 18, 2018My Brain Doesn’t Want Me to WriteWriting is hard. It sucks, in fact. One thing that makes it difficult is that my brain doesn’t trust me to be able to write very well. From…
Richard Whittall·Feb 15, 2018Angry tweets are as useful as thoughts and prayersOne of the most natural things in the world following events like Parkland school shooting is to go on twitter and write angry tweets…
InAgainst ProductivitybyRichard Whittall·Dec 14, 2017Your work is not your worth“A…silent assumption that leads to anxiety and depression is ‘My worth as a human being is proportional to what I have achieved in my…
InAgainst ProductivitybyRichard Whittall·Dec 7, 2017Why there is no such thing as ‘personal’ productivityThere is a concept in Buddhism known as ‘co-dependent arising,’ also referred to as ‘dependent origination.’ Though impossible to break…A response icon1A response icon1
InAgainst ProductivitybyRichard Whittall·Nov 30, 2017Time to get off the Productivity TreadmillWhy is there so much writing on personal productivity?A response icon4A response icon4