I mentioned this earlier but there are a lot of interesting consequences to autonomous driving. One of them is that insurance companies start to look more financially predictable...they charge lower premiums, but they also pay out less. This will flow through to reinsurers as well. Case in point, Lemonade cutting premiums by 50% if you drive a Tesla with FSD. Important implications for all car insurers.

"But seniors are just getting back what they paid in." Not even close. Most receive back far more, even adjusted for net present value. Moreover, what part of the social contract said that SocSec & Medicare could be repeatedly expanded far beyond their payroll taxes & premiums?

Adversarial attacks on vision language action models. xitter.cf/cosyposter/status/2001…

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This tweet backfired horribly. And it's also wrong... We just have to look at the research and countries that pushed the hyper-competitive approach. Hint: The same thing that occurs in youth sports hyper-competitiveness when occurs in academics... Let's dive deep in a thread:

I just learned that silent reading isn't silent for everyone. Some people hear the words in their heads as they read. 🤯

My new favorite word: sonder. It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know. Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.

Never ceases to amaze me how many folks who’ve heard RATM are in Paul Ryan mode, having literally ZERO understanding of anything that band was about and even less understanding where any of us might stand on contemporary issues. Recently was talking to a couple at a restaurant who were big fans of “Killing In The Name”. The nice lady said, “I love that song. It helped me rage against my parents and later against the jab!” I said, “Ma’am that song is about racist cops who often behave like the Ku Klux Klan in service of historical white supremacy and are boot licking lackeys and thugs of the racist capitalist ruling class.” She sat there chewing and blinking, chewing and blinking.

If I was Lego, I would release a special set of Jimmy Carter building a house for Habitat for Humanity and raise the age to 100 just for that set. All profits go to Habitat for Humanity. Total missed opportunity.

Going Long Update The copyright to Going Long reverted back to Joe & me. The agreement that gave it back said we couldn't use anything developed by the publisher - illustrations, tables, formatting... effectively we are free to use our words. Things I'd update... Chapter 2 & 3 - build in Dynamic Loading, emphasize the role that variation plays, give athletes confidence to delay key sessions when they aren't ready to adapt to them. This is in the book with Joe's BT Workout Concept - I'd make it more clear. See Endurance Essentials Chapter 10 coming on Monday. Chapter 4 equipment - the main thing we'd have to update is TT position and bike tech. I still share our tips on cleat position regularly. Add a section on super shoes, too Chapters 5-8 - we put everything in there. It's a manual that I would refer to, by page, with the athletes I coached. I'd want to build in Julie & John's sessions that are in Endurance Essentials. I'd want a simple, big picture template of a Basic Week for back/mid/front of pack athletes. The case studies (Ch 12) helped thousands. Chapter 9 (Strength) and 10 (Nutrition) were re-written for Endurance Essentials. Strength is similar. Nutrition in GL has some good stuff in there - I like my Five-Step Plan for realizing your ideal body composition. That progression saw excellent results with my back/mid-pack athletes. Supplements - trim down. Talk about the key ones... caffeine, baking soda, iron and associated vitamins for uptake, areas where athletes can find themselves deficient, include a section called "waste of your money" and toss in all the disproven supplements of the last 20 years. Talk about contamination risks. I'd need to dig into beet juice, which is popular in the swim community. An updated (and excellent) treatment of race nutrition can be found in @jasonkoop book - Chapters 13 & 14 (his book) are excellent. Every Ironman athlete should read Jason's book. Chapter 11 - Training The Mind - remains excellent, especially the race plan section. Chapter 12 - Case Studies - would still work well. I'd emphasize the need to be flexible with key workout positioning. Chapter 13 - I'd have @Dr_J_Shilt update the chapter. I'd also have Bob Albright (or one of his fellows) help me with a kidney/hydration/hyponatremia chapter. You can find an outline on Endurance Essentials. Chapter 14 - Peaking & Race Week - I still like that structure. A technique that I'd want to mention is one I see my elite friends use... shift the unload a few days away from the race, say, 4-8 days, then lift the body up with a couple challenging sessions close to the race. Of course, the danger with sharing that method is some readers will over-do-it, which is the cardinal sin of race week. I'd explain exactly what an exponential taper looks like and how we use the different sports to freshen the body, while staying active. It's in there but I'd make it more explicit. Chapter 15 - Racing Long - While the TSS bike chart was nice to put in, the reality is I've seen a big range of what different athletes can tolerate. I'd hammer home the role that peaks/spikes play with fatigue. We have science on this now - before it was anecdote from my racing/coaching experience. A technique I want to explore further => training the body to take in a lot of energy pre-race, pre-swim. NEW => John's chapter on The Tired Athlete - a must-read. So common in the ultra community. To supplement John, I will be re-writing my Clas case study for Endurance Essentials Appendix A - we used Joe's zone method because we wanted the book to fit seamlessly with his best-selling Tri Bible. For Z1 to Z3, I prefer bottom up. I'd also emphasize the role of subjective perception, with HR caps. I'd also explain how/why HRs move around so much on athletes (proxy for stress & temp). Tests & Workouts - you'll recognize many of these as I still use, and write about, them. With the sample testing schedule - I'd dial it down, and include more submax benchmarking. Overall, the book held up well. I want to get some fast racing under my belt (70.3 & IM) to remind myself of the lessons. Then I'll be pulling my words into Endurance Essentials chapters. I plan on chapters for every popular race distance in triathlon. You can see one of the challenges... it's easy to blow the book out to 20-25 chapters and make it massive. At ~325 pages it was a big, but thorough, read. Once we get beyond 500 pages, we probably shrink the number of people willing to read it.

Navy DE Chreign LaFond learns his sister, Thea, just won gold in the triple jump. Pretty cool.

Again, the outrage should be on the IOC, who failed them. Not the athlete. This is why we need policies in place. To catch these edge cases and handle them with care before they explode at the Olympics. Let's try our best to be decent human beings here.

* No apology for the athletes * Proud of River Seine project * Weather and climate change to blame * Duathlon not unfair to the athletes The response from @Paris2024 chiefs to the triathlon carnage unfolding in France... tri247.com/triathlon-news/el…

Adulting is realizing he's kinda right