Measuring Arms for Growth 📏

For most people focused on muscle gain, measuring your arms once every 2–4 weeks is ideal.

Measuring Arm size can be a great variation outside of just focusing primarily on bodyweight especially on muscle gain in particular.

#measurement #musclegain #arms #biceps #onlinecoach

Monthly reporting hides slow-moving problems.

A monthly check gives you a point. A weekly trend gives you a line. A 6-month trend gives you a shape.

The shape is what matters, because it tells you what kind of system you're dealing with and what kind of change to expect.

What slow-moving problem is your reporting cycle concealing?

#SystemsThinking #PublicSector #Measurement

Interesting thread from @johnzajac about covid, Long Covid, doctors waving away problems as "aging", etc.

https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/116687038300899112

I don't know if there ever can be conclusive tests for all the varieties & outcomes of Long Covid.

When _I_ had it, it wasn't subtle: from one week to the next, I acquired dysautonomia, heart arrhythmia and exhaustion. (I'm mostly recovered now, 3½ years later.) Those cases are easy to count, if anyone cares.

But like if you have early-onset dementia or kidney damage or something else where the potential causes are multiple, is there really going to be a test which tells you whether covid caused your one or whether you would've got it anyway?

I think those things can sometimes only be identified on a large-scale statistical level.

I.e. you can notice "there are a lot of young people with condition X these days - maybe not coincidence how that line started upward in 2020". But that isn't the same as knowing for definite e.g. "this particular case of X was from the three times they had covid a while back".

#LongCovid #diagnosis #measurement #stats

European: "So, a two-by-four is ... ?"

North American: "In your terms, 89 by 38 millimeters."

European: "... I see. And that works out to an even number of inches or something?"

North American: "No."

#lumber #dimension #DimensionalLumber #NorthAmerica #Imperial #units #measurement #metric