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UNLOAD Week 2: Jan 8-14 2018
The Visionless Society- Chris HedgesFeaturing an interview with Ralph Nader. Some highlights:“There is no democracy … the only democracy left in this country is they don’t haul you to jail for...
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UNLOAD week 3: Jan 15-21
Pre-race Coaching- What should be said?I’l discuss this in the upcoming weeks…"Hard-work is overrated, Judgement is underrated. Which direction you go is more important than the force you apply." -...
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Very Stable Genius: week 4; Jan 22-28 2018
When it comes to program design, there is no blueprint that we can simply follow that works in the ‘building of all athletes’. Athletes are not buildings, or meals - where we can just follow a recipe,...
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Very Stable Genius Week 5: January 29 - February 4, 2018
THE FIRST WORD“You are only entitled to the action, never to its fruits."—Bhagavad Gita…PERFORMANCE THERAPYI’m starting to put together an outline for the Digital version of the ALTIS Performance...
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Very Stable Genius Week 6: February 5-11 2018
THE FIRST WORD“I think generally people’s thinking process is too bound by convention or analogy to prior experiences. It’s rare that people try to think of something on a first principles basis....
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Relatively Stable Genius Week 7: February 12-18 2018
THE FIRST WORD“When you grow up, you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice...
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Relatively Stable Idiot Week 8: February 19-25 2018
THE FIRST WORD“the leaves of a tree delight us more than the roots" - Tolstoy(Everything is clickbait)Choices“The big choices we make are practically random. The small choices probably tell us more...
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Semi-Stable Idiot Week 9: February 26 - March 4 2018
THE FIRST WORD“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius…RANDOM RAMBLINGSMy mind is still on ‘Olympic things’.I’ve now coached at 8. I think I was somewhat excited at...
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Not Very Stable Genius Week 10: March 5-11 2018
THE FIRST WORDThe ultimate in security is the admission of insecurity…TWEET OF THE WEEK:Time and attention are not the same.Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day but varying levels of attention -...
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Super Stable Genius Week 11: March 12-18 2018
FIRST WORD“Think about your preparation, not theirs; your execution, not theirs; your effort and desire, not theirs. Don't worry about them. Let them worry about you.” - Kyle Snyder, 2016 Olympic...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 12: March 19-25 2018
THE FIRST WORDThe two things most opposed to good planning are ‘haste and anger’ - Diodotus…RANDOM RAMBLINGSCan we please stop saying that ’speed is a skill’?It most definitely is not.The specific...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 13: March 26 - April 4 2018
THE FIRST WORD“I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away.” - 2016 US Presidential Candidate, and current US Secretary of Housing and...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 14: April 2 - 8 2018
THE FIRST WORDBollocks to Passion discipline purpose patienceThese are far more important that passion…RANDOM RAMBLINGSWhen your ideas get stolen- Seth GodinA few meditations:Good for you. Isn't it...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 15: April 12-18 2018
THE FIRST WORD “Interest in local news, world news, politics, and media of any sort is a waste of a human lifeNever in the history of civilization has man had more opportunities to squander his...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 16: April 16-22 2018
THE FIRST WORD “We learn not in the school, but in life.” - Seneca...Most people are time-wasters. This is a fact. Whether it is wasted playing video games, perusing social media channels, watching TV,...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 17: April 23-29 2018
THE FIRST WORD How to improve race results:Get fasterGet better at racingMany ignore the importance of the latter. My advice:understand your race modelpractice your modelstabilize your model under...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 18: April 30 - May 6 2018
THE FIRST WORD “All mankind is divided into three groups: those that are immovable, those that are movable and those that move.”— Benjamin Franklin…From Naval’s recent Periscope:“The education system...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 19: May 7-13 2018
THE FIRST WORD “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller…I wish I had Brian...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 20: May 14-20 2018
THE FIRST WORD “In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero.” — Charlie Munger…RANDOM RAMBLINGS“The world is what it is;...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 21: May 21-27 2018
THE FIRST WORD “No, everybody DOES NOT deserve a ribbon.” - Tianna Bartoletta…RANDOM RAMBLINGSI didn’t write a lot this week. I read a lot - but wasn’t feeling very creative, and ended up not taking...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 22: May 28 - June 3 2018
THE FIRST WORD "It is not necessarily the one with more information who will come out victorious; it is the one with better judgment, the one who is better at discerning patterns.” - Frans P.B....
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Very Stable Idiot Week 23: June 4-10 2018
THE FIRST WORD “Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain't. That's logic.” — Lewis Carroll, Through the...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 25: June 11-17 2018
THE FIRST WORD "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently." - Warren Buffett…RANDOM RAMBLINGSI’m a big fan of Brad...
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Very Stable Idiot Week 26: June 18-24 2018
THE FIRST WORD“If you do what you’ve always done, you will get what you’ve always gotten.”…Improvement is not infinitely linear in nature. After the exponential improvement in the initial period of...
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Best Books (and more) of 2018
I listened to way more podcasts in 2018 than books. I spend in excess of 2 hours a day either in the car or training, so I get a lot of time to check out what in my opinion still remains an...
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