Telling Cricket stories with data. - It’s nearly two decades since Moneyball (the book) came out, and sports analytics has never been hotter. Starting with the humble batting average, and visualisations such as the Manhattan and the Worm, cricket...
Lover of challenges, creativity, curiosities. Freelancer, manager, researcher. Folklore, place, people, identity. Some things digital, some things education...
You get access to the political cartoons I draw for King Features, articles about big league baseball from the players’ point of view (why they do what they do) and true life stories explaining why my mother had a mail slot installed in her...
I’ve been told this newsletter has been making people cry at their desks at work since 2015, so maybe you want to cry in front your coworkers. Maybe you want to read someone talking about death and failure and weird sex and small joys an…
The Sunday Dispatches has been my weekly newsletter since November of 2013. The goal has never been growth, sales, or some sort of world domination scheme involving robots (or to a lesser extent, aliens). My focus has always been telling st…
I’m investigating how the smartest people in the world organize knowledge to do their best work. My name is Dan Shipper. I started and sold Firefly. I’ve spent the last two years or so writing a novel, investing in pre-seed...
I said when I first started this newsletter that I’d write some random thoughts posts and I have yet to do that. Well, wait no more!
It follows the format of my Random Things About Random Stuff feature that I include in nearly every newsletter...
Hello from out here on the Thames Delta. I am on low power this week - I am, in fact, doing a couple of days of Slow Carb to try and kickstart the loss of the annoyingly clinging winter weight I picked up, and I would murder you for a...