Writing
Documenting experiences from a variety of activities — climbing, data science experiments, and the occasional questionable life choice.
Taking cold showers every day for 3+ years
Why I took a cold shower nearly every day from 2016 to 2020, and what the Wim Hof rabbit hole taught me.
Predicting my brother's gas bill
My brother kept meticulous utility records for years. I modeled them and predicted his gas costs within ~$6 (median).
How to become a good rock climber
1 — Climb a lot. 2 — Climb with people better than you. 3 — Don't get injured.
Posts I've been meaning to write
Promised in 2017-2019. Still owed. Nag me at john@johnlague.com if you want one of these to exist.
The Complete Climbing Anthology
The outline is up and the section structure is there — the link lists still need filling in.
How to live in a closet
No, not that type of closet. An actual, physical closet.
The best way to fight the poverty cycle
My undergraduate research on the importance of high-quality pre-K education.
One-arm pull-up progression
Band-assisted progressions toward the one-arm pull-up.
Predicting NFL game scores & how to win a hackathon
The Kaggle NFL challenge and lessons from a 2nd-place hackathon finish.
Jumping out of a plane and barely surviving
The time I almost died. (Skydiving AFF graduate, somehow.)