Influences

It would be the height of conceit to compare myself to any of these fine folks, but here is a partial list of who and what informs my thinking and writing.

Baseball

• Vin Scully
• Bill James
• Big Bad Baseball Annual
  • Baseball Think Factory
  • Baseball-Reference

Sports

• Jim Murray

Writing

• Gene Roddenberry
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Ernest Hemingway
• Gary Snyder
• Kate Braverman
• W.S. Merwin
• Jimmy Webb
• Neil Peart
• Bill Bryson
• Christopher Guest
• Michael Palin

Philosophy

• Lao Tzu

Blogging

• Dave Winer
• Darren Rowse
• David Pinto