Scott’s Weblog

I first heard of persistence hunting towards the end of Born to Run, Christopher McDougall’s manifesto on running.  McDougall seeks an explanation for the human being’s incredible ability at distance running and offers persistence hunting as an explanation.

I am one third of the way into Randy Olson’s Don’t Be Such a Scientist, which offers communication assistance to the scientifically inclined.  This book is growing on me and has helped me identify and describe a lot of the problems I have in communication and see in my engineering coworkers.  On page 69 Olson [...]