292: Explore and exploit (with Alex Hutchinson)

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Jul 28, 202540:13Sports & Recreation

Alex Hutchinson is well known for his writing on sport science, but his new books goes in a different direction by taking a detailed look at exploration: why humans explore, how much we should explore, and methods of exp...

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