Richard WhittallWhat makes good teams good?Right now, there seem to be two, major tectonic plates grinding past each other in the football analytics world. One, which relies on…Mar 5, 2019Mar 5, 2019
Richard WhittallFootball analytics is just as human a pursuit as man managementHere’s another one, from Jonathan Wilson:Jan 11, 2019Jan 11, 2019
Richard WhittallOn the Way People Tweet Out Alarming Climate Change NewsThis won’t be a long post, but I’m writing it because I don’t feel like writing a twitter thread (ironically obviously as this is a post…Oct 31, 2018Oct 31, 2018
Richard WhittallinPlease Like My MusicEverything You Always Wanted to Hear on the Moog — Andrew Kazdin, Thomas Z. Shepard (1972)Welcome to the first post of Please Like My Music, an utterly self-indulgent series in which I talk about the albums I have come to know…Oct 23, 20181Oct 23, 20181
Richard Whittall8 ways in which this a typical Medium productivity post1. It opens with some sort of pleasant landscape photographOct 22, 2018Oct 22, 2018
Richard WhittallMy Brain Doesn’t Want Me to WriteWriting is hard. It sucks, in fact. One thing that makes it difficult is that my brain doesn’t trust me to be able to write very well. From…Sep 18, 2018Sep 18, 2018
Richard WhittallAngry tweets are as useful as thoughts and prayersOne of the most natural things in the world following events like Parkland school shooting is to go on twitter and write angry tweets…Feb 15, 2018Feb 15, 2018
Richard WhittallinAgainst ProductivityYour work is not your worth“A…silent assumption that leads to anxiety and depression is ‘My worth as a human being is proportional to what I have achieved in my…Dec 14, 2017Dec 14, 2017
Richard WhittallinAgainst ProductivityWhy there is no such thing as ‘personal’ productivityThere is a concept in Buddhism known as ‘co-dependent arising,’ also referred to as ‘dependent origination.’ Though impossible to break…Dec 7, 20171Dec 7, 20171
Richard WhittallinAgainst ProductivityTime to get off the Productivity TreadmillWhy is there so much writing on personal productivity?Nov 30, 20174Nov 30, 20174