Hey there! This week’s blog is packed with diverse topics. From assessing the financial impact of Premier League injuries to analyzing NFL win predictions, there’s sports galore. Learn tips on rapid DIY projects, make your own hot sauce, cook a delicious miso salmon, and explore AI and prompt controls for chatbots. There’s even scientific insights on eating habits and secrets to a healthier life! Dive in!

• The Cost of Injuries in the Premier League: 2023/2024: Jason McKenna assesses which injuries cost Premier League clubs the most in 2023/24 and what injury trends are showing us
• Analyzing NFL Win Totals with the SIS Prediction Model: We’ve reached prediction season for the NFL. A big part of dissecting the upcoming season is analyzing the schedule and predicting which teams will overperform…
• How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly: Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the ‘loading-bar’ style (more on that below) Don’t just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so you can […]
• Miso Salmon: This Miso Salmon is a magical weeknight meal! Marinated in a sweet and savory miso sauce, the fillets are broiled to perfection.
• Is It Better to Eat Hot Food in the Summer? Here’s What the Science Says: Around the world, the natural thing to do when it’s hot out is to eat something hot. In Vietnam, it’s a bowl of pho, in China, “refreshing” means a cup of hot water. I spoke with experts to find out the psychological and physiological reasons why eating hot foods in the summer and cold foods in winter makes sense.
• Getting lost in a world of search-and-find illustration: At a time when small-screen imagery seems to be taking over and illustrators are losing their jobs to AI, it’s nice to know there are still areas wher…
• Making your own hot sauce: I like hot sauces. My favourite is Ring of fire, a hot sauce that I first encountered in the US. It is a mix of habanero and serrano chillis, tomatoes, vinegar and spices. It is very tasty and (despite the name) not super hot. However, it has become increasingly difficult and expensive to get ‘Ring…
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• How I Use “AI”: I don’t think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I’ve used them.
• Prompt Controls in GenAI Chatbots: 4 Main Uses and Best Practices: When following good practices, prompt controls can increase the discoverability of genAI chatbots’ features, offer inspiration, and minimize manual user input.
• This Is How To Get Healthy: 4 Powerful Secrets From Research: We’d all like to be more healthy but the advice we get is conflicting and absurd. Here’s what the science says can help…