Yesterday, we discussed the recent push of "evidence-based practice" within the medical community and questioned how ridiculous it was that this is only a recent push.Today, we talk sports."Moneyball" or "Sabermetrics" is the idea of objectively valuating athletes and situational decisions in sports based purely on statistical outcomes.Some people hate...
Did you know that "evidence-based practice" is a fairly recent concept in the medical world?Seriously. Also known as "empirically-supported treatment", the concept of choosing a course of treatment based on statistically significant and supported data has only recently surpassed intuition as primary decision maker in the medical community.Why do you...
"What do you make?" should always be answered as an hourly rate.Let's say you make $35,000 a year. And you decide to switch jobs for a nice 20% pay bump up to $42,000/yr. That's a hard increase to turn down. A number that might take you 5 years in annual...
I am going to hit a kid with my car.Driving through my subdivision this summer has become a constant game of chicken. I'm not sure if children are getting dumber, or if there's some sort of leak in our drinking water. But, the children in my neighborhood speed out in...
Hope is passive.I can't seem to get this idea out of my head. It hit me one day like a brick. The idea of hope as merely "wishing". Passive laziness.Help me understand "active hope".
Here's my problem with Jesus.It's super easy to love the lovable; the polite; the meek; the well intentioned.It's the jerks I can't stand. The cynical. The arrogant.I am commanded to love the very people I can not even like. It seems impossible to do?
Ok, I'm sick of hearing this constantly spouted, so let's try clearing this up today.There is no population problem. Not a real one at least.Thomas Malthus' Population Theory was based on the false assumption that an increase in personal wealth would increase the child rate, increase the population and obliterate...
Vegas doesn't want you. They don't want your $200 weekend of slot money. They don't want your $12.99 buffet money. They don't want your $89 hotel money.But it would be a really creepy ghost-town place to hang out in if only the super-rich came. That's why they need you.But be...
People ask me why I'm not putting more baby photos on Facebook. And they don't like my answer, which is, "Because the vast majority of my 'friends' don't want to see them."But, it's true. Because my Facebook friends aren't actually my friends. They're anyone I've ever encountered who asked to...
