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Books, baseball, and occasionally other things. Johnson City, TN.
Finished reading: Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff 📚
Tiny Experiments
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August 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Finished reading: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚
Co-Intelligence
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August 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#MLB #MVP #2005
August 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Finished reading: Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald 📚
Fletch
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August 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Owning your own material like David Letterman does with his archives (through Worldwide Pants) allows you to do dope shit like this. Love it.
Letterman's YT page just dropped a 20 minute supercut of him trashing CBS: The Tiffany Network

youtu.be/7Rv36XkQojM?...
CBS: The Tiffany Network | David Letterman
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July 21, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Finished reading: Joe by Larry Brown 📚
Joe
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July 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Finished reading: Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer 📚
Hummingbird Salamander
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June 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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#MLB #MVP #2005
June 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Kids to Parks Day (https://www.johnsoncitytn.org/news_detail_T12_R562.php#:~:text=Hosted%20on%20the%20third%20Saturday,crafts%2C%20hiking%20and%20much%20more.) yesterday. Super fun. Grateful to have an active Parks Department and lots of free or affordable programming for families.
May 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Peacock’s closed captioning on the Eurovision performances all just say [SINGING IN A GLOBAL LANGUAGE] lol
May 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Finished reading: The Anxious Generation (https://hardcover.app/books/the-anxious-generation?referrer_id=1935) by Jonathan Haidt.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness - Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies. Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood. Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.
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May 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Finished reading: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg (https://hardcover.app/books/supercommunicators?referrer_id=1935)
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection - Hardcover
Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries, and fails, to convince yet another cancer patient to opt for the less risky course of treatment. In Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg blends deep research and his trademark storytelling skills to show how we can all learn to identify and leverage the hidden layers that lurk beneath every conversation. Communication is a superpower and the best communicators understand that whenever we speak, we’re actually participating in one of three conversations: practical (What’s this really about?), emotional (How do we feel?), and social (Who are we?). If you don’t know what kind of conversation you’re having, you’re unlikely to connect. Supercommunicators know the importance of recognizing—and then matching—each kind of conversation, and how to hear the complex emotions, subtle negotiations, and deeply held beliefs that color so much of what we say and how we listen. Our experiences, our values, our emotional lives—and how we see ourselves, and others—shape every discussion, from who will pick up the kids to how we want to be treated at work. In this book, you will learn why some people are able to make themselves heard, and to hear others, so clearly. With his storytelling that takes us from the writers’ room of The Big Bang Theory to the couches of leading marriage counselors, Duhigg shows readers how to recognize these three conversations—and teaches us the tips and skills we need to navigate them more successfully. In the end, he delivers a simple but powerful lesson: With the right tools, we can connect with anyone.
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May 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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My latest for @baseballprospectus.com is on Rob Manfred telling Dodgers fans who can't afford to attend a Dodgers game to go to Angels games instead, and how there's a pattern here of MLB's commissioner not understanding what a fan of a team even is or why that sort of solution is no solution at all
Manfred Just Doesn't Understand | Baseball Prospectus
Fandom isn't random.
www.baseballprospectus.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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#MLB #MVP #2005
January 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A perfectly on-point description of the current Google search experience from Tom Scocca in the Flaming Hydra newsletter.

"When I type “baryshnikov”into a Google search, what I mean is what I’ve meant ever since Google... https://blog.brseybert.com/2025/01/13/a-perfectly-onpoint-description-of.html
January 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
December 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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It's so rare when a player is so relentlessly exciting that it doesn't matter what team you rooted for, you were a fan of Rickey Henderson, truly one of a kind
December 21, 2024 at 7:27 PM
@marcnormandin.bsky.social is there any publicly available source for each MLB team's revenue sharing haul in a given year? Saw your article about the A's being required to spend with their revenue sharing uptick and wondered how this impacted other teams (like the Pirates).
December 16, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Finished reading: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 📚
December 8, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Finished reading: The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef 📚

Had a tough time with this one considering the author provides the following consecutive examples of this mindset in practice: Elon Musk, Trevor Bauer, and Jeff Bezos. The Scout M... https://blog.brseybert.com/2024/12/08/finished-reading-the.html
December 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Finished reading: Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

And just like that I’m sucked back into Area X and planning another re-read of the series, now with additional fascinating backstory.
December 8, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Somebody please hide Manfred's copy of BASEketball.
December 3, 2024 at 1:10 PM
November 28, 2024 at 1:46 AM