December 2023

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100 People

Let’s say you have 100 people. They can break into groups of any size. Each group gets 100 toothpicks. The goal: build the tallest structure with the toothpicks. What is the optimal group size? Maybe it’s a group of 100. Everyone works together contributing their best ideas and providing feedback on other ideas. Everything is […]

Blood Pressure

I’ve got high blood pressure. I’m sure it’s all the classics: overweight, not great diet, a little stress. My readings at the doctor’s always tend to be high, and they do this little dance where they write it off to normal variation or morning exercise or the minor stress of being at the doctor. But […]

Gift Guide 2023

Here’s a collection of neat things that I bookmarked throughout the year that I thought might make nice gifts. Maybe this will spark some ideas for you. None of these are affiliate links or anything, not that I’m above that 🤔. Crokinole Crokinole is a wooden dexterity game that is a lot like curling. It […]

The Shift’s Plea

Miranda and I plucked a movie out of a hat the other night. We had a babysitter already for some other plans that fell through, and we’re like eh might as well keep the sitter and go see a movie. We picked The Shift because the trailer looked kinda thriller intense fun, narrowly beating out […]