The Magical Design Hidden in Sports | Smart Nonsense #348
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🕘Timestamps:
(0:00 ) Intro
(0:34 ) Dylan's GrubHub credit card hacks
(0:58 ) Why I should cancel my Amex Platinum card
(2:58 ) Winning three championships (I'm kind of a big deal)
(3:42 ) Soccer vs. Hockey shifts: a chaotic debate
(4:59 ) Dylan the "banshee" on the soccer field
(7:39 ) Obsessing over tennis game design
(9:06 ) Tennis scoring is secretly brilliant
(11:00 ) Why football's Hail Mary is peak game design
(12:53 ) KO comebacks and Black Swan KOs
(14:50 ) How hockey fixed its boring overtime
(17:01 ) Are penalty kicks better than shootouts?
(17:48 ) Making our game fairer than the SAT
(19:57 ) Why Desmos's UI/UX is so bad
(21:35 ) The mystery of the "y=x" graph
(22:37 ) My buddy's to-do list app paradox
Recorded June 6, 2025
#SmartNonsense #DylanJardon #HenryBelcaster
United States
