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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.

My colleague Dominick Ghirardo and I wrote a short piece for our company’s tech blog on approaching automation in data science.

I’ve set up three Raspberry Pis over the last two days…. So after the first two this weekend took me a lot longer than they should have, I realized it was about time I documented my process and made it repeatable.