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With the announcement of Apple One in September, I decided to reevaluate my loyalty to Spotify. If Apple was going to offer me a (slightly) discounted rate if I went all-in on their services, I wanted to have a good look at Apple Music and see if it could replace Spotify for me…. After almost three months of use, my conclusion is that I could live with Apple Music, but I’d happily pay a small premium for Spotify instead.

Grant [Sanderson] brings up the term discovery fiction to describe a simpler way of explaining a concept; a story that isn’t actually what occurred in the creation or discovery of an idea, but a more curated set of questions and problems that lead you to the solution more quickly.

For those not already in-the-know about Tony Horton’s infamous X-treme workout series, P90X was a collection of video workouts released in 2005… this isn’t intended to be a self-congratulatory post (whoops, maybe too late), but a series of observations I have about my experience so far.

I spend a lot of time on meta-productivity: thinking about how to get work done better and faster…. Below is a fairly comprehensive list of the tech I use regularly.

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about how interesting it would be to look at data on my running habits.

Over the past few years, I have heard many people repeatedly note the downsides of Twitter, particularly its impact on our society. I don’t agree with all of those criticisms, but some are legitimate and most deserve a serious discussion. This isn’t that discussion, though. Instead, I’d like to spend some time on the many merits of Twitter, so lost in our current debate.

My colleague Brad Boehmke and I made a guest appearance on the Talk Python to Me podcast to talk about the challenges of supporting a large data science department that uses both R and Python. You can listen to the episode on any podcast player.

I was recently interviewed for 84.51˚’s podcast on the topic of upskilling the data science function.

I contributed a walkthrough to some basic Linux utilities for data scientists to the 84.51˚ tech blog.

I wrote a piece for the Syntact Project on Gross National Happiness as an alternative to GDP.