Welcome to Engineered, where I take an inconsequential problem and do my very best to overthink the hell out of it using some combination of math, Excel, and coding. Today's topic: golf, or more specifically, is your favorite club (the driver) hurting you more than helping you? I don't play a lot of golf these…
With every new year comes a period lasting anywhere from a few days to a few months where I write the previous year and have to scribble it out. But it also brings with it the sad end of the college football season, culminated with several weeks of nonstop bowl action. I love bowl season,…
Traveling around the world has never been easier than it is now, but that doesn't stop people from complaining about it. When someone gets back from a trip, the first thing you can expect them to talk about is some sort of problem they had in transit, more than likely with their flight. Now, this…
If you ask a normal adult why they consume "the news", whether it be from T.V., newspapers, or online articles, they would probably respond with something to the effect of "I want to get a broader view of the world" or "I want to be informed." This is a noble reason for consuming news, but in…
A friend and I were reminiscing about college one time, and of course since we were both engineers the topic quickly got to what was the worst we had ever done on a test. He joked that whenever he or his friends got close to a 50% on a test they would reassure each other…
Editor's Note: This is a continuation of the article Is Your Favorite Sport Choosing The Best Team Fairly?. I suggest reading at least the first part of it for context. Growing up in Georgia, I was a fan of the Atlanta Braves and Falcons. Being a fan of the Braves in the '90s and early 2000s…
Editor's note: this post got pretty long, so I decided to throw baseball into it's own article...stay tuned. People like sports. They are exciting to watch, fun to follow, and offer great small talk fodder with people whom you have little in common. For a graphical view of why people like sports, consult the image…