Yeah, believe it or not, I have a GPS on my bike.  It’s even a Garmin.  With a push of a button I can go to a screen that either shows me how fast I’m going and what my heart rate is, or I can see a little map with direction arrows and...

I’m big on the idea that consultants don’t have to be really smart people, or that they have to have an incredible amount of experience around the subject matter they are tackling.  It’s helpful of course, but it’s actually not the core...

Cycling is an easy sport to figure out from a measurement perspective.  Speed is a function of power output and weight (all other things held constant).  So if you’re going uphill, the number of watts you generate as a factor of your weight (you +...

As a consultant, I’m often tasked not only with putting an approach together to solve a problem, but actually identifying the problem altogether.  It always amazes me that I’ll go in to do a project that has already been sold, and the client is...

There was a time when 10 and 12 speeds were a wonderful thing.  In fact, road bikes were routinely called 10 speed bikes.  Today, I still ride what is called a 10 speed, but it’s actually 20 if you directly compare it with the 10 speeds of the...