08:26 07 Jan 2011
The most common tag I applied to blog posts in 2010 was: personal, 63 times. (Unfortunately it isn’t clear how to link to WordPress posts with a combined tag and year constraints, so the links go to all the posts with the tag, not just 2010’s). I’m a little surprised that was the most common tag.
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17:55 06 Jan 2011
Some statistics on my posts from 2010.
- Total Posts: 263.
- Total Wordcount: 85697.
- Total Writing Time: 128 hours 24 minutes.
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05:09 04 Jan 2011
2010 is the first year in which I consistently kept metadata such as tags, writing time, and wordcount for my morning pages, which means it’s the first year in which I can do certain kinds of data analysis on them; this post covers what I think is interesting data about the 392,582 words that I wrote in my morning pages in over 240 hours in 2010.
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13:23 23 Oct 2009
Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball has something of a cult following, and helped its main subject, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane. The essential idea is that by focusing on non-traditional (in baseball terms) statistical analysis (called Sabermetrics), Beane could identify arbitrage opportunities in baseball markets.
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