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From Batting Average to wRC+: A Postseason Primer for the Modern Baseball Fan By: a Baseball Fan (Go Dodgers!) It’s that time of year, folks. The leaves are changing, the air is crisp, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are back in the World Series, going for back-to-back titles for the first time since the Yankees did it 20 something years ago. They'll be taking on the Toronto Blue Jays, the team that just won't go down, winning game 7 after being down 2-0 in the ALCS. The energy is palpable, and e...

The Myth of the True Self I’ve been chewing on this idea of a “true self” lately, and not just in the abstract. A close friend of mine—twelve years of history—burned me in a way I never saw coming. He was someone I had gone out of my way to forgive and defend, even when he slipped up. When his life was messy, I opened the door of my own business and made him a partner, trusting he’d rise to the occasion. Instead, things unraveled. He lied, he cheated, he stole. He slid back into drugs. And when...

Woke up at 5:00 AM (circadian rhythm synced to sunlight), journaled 3 pages (morning pages, not gratitude—too basic), cold plunge for vascular resilience, lion’s mane in the pour-over. → Reviewed my Notion dashboard. → Checked KPIs across six life domains: Health, Wealth, Network, Mindset, Skillset, Legacy. → Synced weekly targets with quarterly OKRs. → Revisited my 5-year plan, 2-year plan, vision board, and exit strategy. → Blocked off deep work hours using timeboxing. → Delegated low-le...

July is fun—hot bats, big crowds, and long summer days—but let’s be real: we're already thinking about October. And by "we", I do mean us Dodgers fans, because we have been going through a little bit of rough patch of late, and it's time to remember that last year - 2024 - we also had a downturn, some losing stretches of the season, but at the end of the day, it didn't matter. Winning 100 games would be great. Not likely, but then again we won over 100 two years ago, only to get sent home im...

Daring bank robbers. Sophisticated jewel thieves. Sadistic serial killers. And of course, the tough-talking, brilliant detectives who chase them down. Crime stories have always held a powerful place in our collective imagination. One hundred and eighty years ago, Edgar Allan Poe created the modern detective story. Decades later, Arthur Conan Doyle gave us Sherlock Holmes—genius, methodical, and iconic. Then came the revolution. In the 1920s through the 1940s, American writers reshaped crime f...