Josh Brooks
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Josh Brooks
@JBrooks77
A Londoner in NYC Marketing + AI. 🔴 Man Utd | 👟 Sneakerhead. 🏃♂️ Training for the Boston Marathon.
New York, NY Katılım Nisan 2009
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Spotify needs to release a “kids” setting so I can play all the songs my kids listen to without it affecting my own Discovery algorithm.
Insane that I can’t do this already.
My Discover Weekly is just nursery songs and Moana.
@Spotify please fix this.
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78.6 miles across three of the greatest cities later, and the lesson remains the same: Respect the distance, but trust the training.
Boston hits differently.
Recovery starts now. Then, we look at Chicago? Berlin? Tokyo? Where to next? 🏅 #BostonStrong #MarathonTraining

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London, New York, and now Boston. The triple crown is complete. 🇬🇧🏙️🦄
@bostonmarathon @LondonMarathon @nycmarathon

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@oliviaakory Love this and you are talking about my favorite sport
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ESPN: How bad analytics built a Tottenham team that might get relegated
So many parallels here to our industry.
“How does a team with what's estimated to be the ninth-most valuable roster in the world actually become one of the worst teams in the Premier League? One possibility: You measure the things that you think matter -- and not the things that actually do matter.
Over the past few years, a new set of numbers has emerged in the soccer world. Rather than quantifying the things that lead to winning, they quantify the things that scouts and coaches have always seemed to value: Who is big and who is fast? Who looks good? Who would be unstoppable if I could teach him how to play?
A number of companies, like Gradient and SkillCorner, now offer a spate of physical metrics that show how often a player is running -- in and out of possession, at top speed, at high speed, etc. I don't fault any of the companies for doing this; it's good that these datasets exist. One of the things that's been missing from soccer data since the start is anything that tells us what everyone else is doing off the ball. The average player has possession of the ball, at most, only for a couple minutes per game, and most soccer data is only quantifying that tiny snapshot of time. It doesn't come close to telling us everything, but it is telling us the most important things.
Used properly, this off-ball, physical data can be incredibly powerful. If you're running a team and you can figure out how to combine these physical metrics with what drives winning and scoring goals, then you've created a new, much more holistic understanding of player value, and you'll have a leg up on anyone who is only using passing and shots to quantify performance. But that's really hard, and since it's really hard, it's not really happening.
Instead, as a source who has worked with a number of Champions League clubs put it to me, the physical metrics are allowing clubs just to confirm their own biases.”

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Ran the Boston Marathon and enjoyed the heck out of the challenge! Surprised myself with another PR 3:13:48 and had my bestie and family there to support me which made it extra special! #BOSTONSTRONG 💪



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@JWLevitt Here in Boston now and the elite nature of the runners is so apparent
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The craziest thing about the Nike/Boston ad “controversy” is that all these other brands are piling on and saying “all paces welcome here” but with 80% of the entrants time qualifiers, all paces are literally *not* welcome here.
It’s the Olympics for those who can’t make the Olympics, and that’s ok!!!!
I say this as someone who ran a 2:59 and it still wasn’t fast enough. Made me want to be better.
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@UltraLinx At first I never thought that but it’s becoming more apparent
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@JBrooks77 The 130th is a special one to run. Good luck Monday.
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It’s real now @bostonmarathon
#DadRunRepeat #BostonMarathon #FinishLineBound #WorkingDad #MarathonTraining
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First time #MUFC have won away at Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool in the same league season since 1984/85.
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