Nathan Braun

I enjoy building, learning, reading, writing and teaching.

My last niche was “learn to code with sports”. I wrote books on football, baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer. I also have a more general book on computer tooling

Here’s a chronological list of all posts. An RSS feed is available here. Other places to find me:

• Email: nate@nathanbraun.com
• Twitter: @nathanbraun
• Github: @nathanbraun
• Goodreads: @nathanbraun

Projects

• Tech Tools, book on computer tooling (2024).
• Percentile Feedback, a webapp to automatically calculate PF graphs (2022).
• Voice Book Notes, a webapp to take and export audio notes while reading (2021).
• Vim For Everyone, a site extolling the virtues of Vim for non-coders (2021).
• Vote Squared, a quadratic polling app (2020-present).
• Scramble Tracker, track whose shots you used during a golf scramble (2020-present)

Fantasy & Sports Analytics Projects

• Learn to Code with Soccer, soccer version of book (2022)
• Learn to Code with Hockey, NHL version of book (2022)
• Learn to Code with Basketball, NBA version of book (2022)
• Learn to Code with Baseball, baseball version of LTCWFF (2020-present)
• Intermediate Coding with Fantasy Football, project-based follow up LTCWFF (2020)
• Fantasy Math, model for weekly fantasy start-sit advice (2017-present)
• Learn to Code with Fantasy Football, book on Python & data science (2019-present)
• Fantasy Monday, a free Monday only version of Fanasy Math (2017-present)
• Draft Pick Trade Calculator, calculator to evaluate draft pick trades (2015-2018)
• Keeper Trade Calculator, calculator to evaluate draft pick keeper trades (2015-2018)
• Bayesian Fantasy Football, Bayesian model for weekly fantasy advice (2013-2016)

Environmental Economics Projects

• On Differences in Permit Prices in the EU Carbon Market, MS thesis (2011)
• BP Oil Spill, on which I worked quantifying economic impacts (2011-2015)

Book Notes

• Superhuman by Habit, notes on the book by Tynan
• Principles, notes on Principles by Ray Dalio
• Deep Work, notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Three Languages of Politics, notes on the book by Arnold Kling
• Utopia’s Infinite Todo List, from Ada Palmer’s Terra Incognita series

Parenting Notes

• Teaching Little Kids About Randomness, notes on a game my 4 year old and I liked
• Quarantine Backyard Bird List, every bird we saw during COVID, 3/20-3/21

Other

• What Elon Musk means when he says money is a database for resource allocation
• A list of open ideas to work on.
• A backlog of productivity/self improvement experiments to try.
• Some quotes I like.
• Notes on Patri Friedman’s Advice Experience Hierchy
• Notes on Ray Dalio’s Designer vs Worker Level You
• A simple explanation of the Monty Hall Problem. And regression to the mean.