Why Upper-Arm Placement Is Changing Performance Monitoring Wrist-based wearables have dominated consumer and athlete tracking for nearly twenty years. They are convenient, socially accepted, and good enough for general lifestyle metrics. Yet for high-intensity training, strength work, HIIT, and any movement that involves significant arm motion, the wrist has always…

Predictive Scheduling, Agentic Tools, and Workflow Integration Sports leagues spent the better part of a decade testing startups through accelerators and venture arms. NBA Launchpad, NFL 32 Equity, MLS Innovation Lab, and similar programs sourced promising technologies, ran pilots, and occasionally took equity. That phase produced useful experiments. The next…

Baseball loves its mythology of loyalty, grit, and looking out for your teammates. It celebrates the journeyman who grinds through the minors for a cup of coffee in the big leagues. Yet for hundreds of men who actually lived that story between 1947 and 1979, the game and its players’…

The AI industry has a peculiar problem in the middle of 2026. Frontier labs and hyperscalers continue pouring tens of billions into models that grow more capable. Enterprises keep writing large checks for access to those models. Yet fewer than one in five large companies report meaningful return on their…

Revisiting KILOGEAR’s Efficiency Study in the Data-Driven Sports Tech Era Disclosure: I am an investor in KILOGEAR. Major sports leagues are pouring resources into performance analytics, recovery tools, and fan platforms through incubators like NBA Launchpad, NFL 32 Equity, and MLS Innovation Lab. At the same time, specialized brands are…

The 2026 Playbook for Performance, Fans, and Innovation Major sports leagues have quietly become some of the most sophisticated venture builders in tech. Through dedicated programs like the NBA Launchpad, NFL’s 32 Equity, MLS Innovation Lab, and accelerators tied to the English Premier League and others, they are no longer…

Strategies for new Coders in a Winner-Takes-Most Market Recently have been asked a few times for advice to new college graduates entering the job market. These are sharp, bright young people with newly minted Computer Science degrees from the best universities, and they are looking for work. This situation would…

Still Investigational, but the Finish Line Is in Sight I’ve spent years chasing better data on how my body actually responds to training load. Oura Ring trends over 1,400+ days. Hume BodyPod composition. VO2 max testing. Stair climbs with micro-weighted gear. Weighted apparel protocols. The common thread is simple: I…

Wearable Technology Partnerships Powering the Next Era of Functional Fitness and Racing Disclosure: I am an investor in WURQ. The functional fitness and competitive racing landscapes are evolving rapidly. CrossFit remains a global benchmark for high-intensity training, while HYROX (the World Series of Fitness Racing) has exploded in popularity with…

Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, or NIRS, sounds like something from a sci-fi lab, but it’s rapidly becoming a practical tool for everyday athletes, runners, lifters, and fitness enthusiasts. I was told to think of it as a “window into your muscles.” Basically, NIRS tells you how well an athlete is using oxygen…