Category: Thoughts

Today begun my first 7 day waking up at home streak since May. It’s been a fun journey that included 2 countries, 7 states, and several great meals, but I’m ready for a Saturday afternoon nap.

Last weekend was the 4th regional meeting of the summer. This one was in Dallas and started with a Tumbling Team meeting at Spirit of Texas and finished with a picture of Caleb. In between was a lot of talking cheerleading and dinner at Bob’s. The random armadillo has nothing to do with Dallas.

I recently switched from using a Nike Fuelband to a Fitbit Charge HR. I liked the Fuelband and some of the gamification of it, but they didn’t survive much over a year for me. Starting off the battery would make it through a competition weekend, which I thought was great. As the year progressed the…

The Verge published Someone Has Edited Movies Down to Just the Lines Spoken by People of Color. The videos were created by Dylan Marron and posted on YouTube. Here’s a sample using the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Clint Smith presented How to Raise a Black Son in America as a TED Talk.

Last weekend was the USASF regional meeting in Atlanta, the hump day meeting. My stay didn’t get off to the greatest start, but overall it was a good weekend. I think there was another record number of coaches attending this meeting which makes me think we are doing something right. The highlight of the weekend…

I didn’t expect a follow up to Pressure is a Privilege to come so soon or from the business world, but then Apple posted their quarterly results. Revenue was $49.6B, up from $37.4B the same quarter a year ago, and profit of $10.7B, up from $7.4B. iPhone sales were 47.5 million, up 35% from the…

I haven’t slept well the past several night, which gave me a chance to watch more of the British Open than I really wanted to see. With that came watching Jordan Spieth perform under the pressure of potentially being the first golfer in the modern era to win the Grand Slam. He seems to be…

Last weekend I was in Baltimore for the 2nd USASF meeting. I didn’t see any of Baltimore. I think the only times I left the hotel was when I accidentally took the fire escape stairs from the 2nd floor to outside of the 1st and when I went to the airport. This meeting involved more…

Gary Haugen presented The Hidden Reason for Poverty the World Needs to Address Now as a TED Talk.

You should break a sweat every day. That’s the advice Bowd gave me a while ago and I try to do it. Sometimes I run in the mornings, but don’t want to run every day to avoid the pounding on my body. The other days I need to make sure I at least go on…

After London I went to Mississippi for Independence Day Weekend. There was little sleep and a lot of friends, food, beer, and water. Unfortunately a lot of the water came from the sky.