Another quick one while I continue my recuperatory week of doing as little as possible. I recently got to see a fascinating sequence of...

I went to an incredible talk this week by a renowned  optimizer in AI spaces. He’s worked on everything from power grids to e-commerce...

Hey, sorry for the late post, had to give a talk this morning! I’ve written a bit  about QALYs  here before, or Quality-Adjusted Life...

If you had  to summarize a statistical distribution with one number…well, I guess you could do worse than taking an average. Even so,...

(Stick around for a sneak peek  at my latest manifesto!) It’s been a busy week onboarding at Hopkins and continuing to get settled in...

Do you know how coffees get scored? Here’s a sample espresso cupping form: Let’s talk survey methodology . This form is part of a...

Hi I’m a four-year-old child learning 8 new words every day. So help me out: What’s a chef? Uhh…a chef is someone who cooks food. Oh...

Our discourse around canceling seems a bit too simplistic. But how can we do better? We’ve all done bad things we wish we could take...

Two weeks ago, I had no idea how to use Adobe Premiere Pro. But now, I’m pretty good at Googling. Indiana University is holding a...

When you go to the hospital, we rarely have the resources to treat everyone as promptly and thoroughly as we’d like. So we have to make...

I recently spoke to a trained economist who argued that racism was bad, but only because it was bad for the economy. What can we say...

I had a really interesting conversation about art criticism this week. So here we go: What does it mean to be great at jazz? Look, I know...

I’ve been working hard to get clear on the differences between quantitative and qualitative values lately. Here’s an example: If I want...

First I’ll share my story. Then I’d love to hear yours. In Twilight Imperium, there’s a unique hex called the Gravity Rift. Ships that...

My friend Kjell and I noticed there just aren’t enough podcasts, so we decided to help. Our first episode takes an early look at some of...