Wednesday, October 12, 2016

10-11-2016

Workout:

Week 5: Day 2
Warm up: Hip activation series, burpees, jumping jacks, mountain climbers, banded front rack stretch, banded lat stretch

Clean Warm up (barbell only)

Power Clean x 3 - Every minute on the minute for 10 min (155)

Pull ups x 50 in 8 minutes, any rep scheme. (I did these strict, only got to 25 in the time cap)

As many rounds as possible in 20 minutes:
- Front rack walking lunges (barbell only)
- Burpees

Reading:

I am hopping on the audio book train, and I am psyched about it.  My typical commute time is 2+ hours a day, and it feels like I am taking this previously useless time and getting a bunch of value out of it.  On a side note, I realize that I get the majority of my daily news from Morning Edition, so I'm not sure abandoning the radio altogether is the best play.

It feels weird to list audiobooks under "reading", but I am going to do it anyway.

I started "Nudge", by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.  It's great so far.  Listening to the speaker talk about "The Econ" and "Libertarian Paternalism" is entertaining.  It reminded me of a design contest I came across a while ago called The Fun Theory.

Notes:

I love behavioral economics.  I think one of the reasons I like it is because understanding the relationship and tensions between the planner (mind 1) and the doer (mind 2) feels like it cuts to the core of discipline.

When I was a sophomore in college I took a microeconomics course taught by Eric Schulz.  In one of the lectures he offhandedly mentioned that he also taught behavioral econ during one of his related examples.  After listening for 5 minutes I knew I needed to take that class before leaving Northwestern.  A few years later I did, and it was well worth it.


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