Will’s World Invisible Gorilla

By Will Carlin In 1999, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris conducted an experiment that featured a short video of two groups of three people passing around...

Will’s World Peer Power

By Will Carlin We all want to belong. Perhaps in high school no one feels totally comfortable; I was no exception. I loved learning. It almost didn’t matter...

Will’s World One More Point

By Will Carlin I was hurting. Badly. It was a summer tournament, and it was hot. My soaked shirt clung to my torso, and the...

Will’s World Seven Faults

By Will Carlin In the fall of 1962, John McPhee got a phone call from his father. McPhee was not yet the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer he would later become; in fact,...

Will’s World Two of a Kind

By Will Carlin Amr Shabana was walking away from me. The Maestro, as he is called by PSA Squash TV commentators Joey Barrington and Paul Johnson, had just won the semifinals...

Will Carlin’s Experience With Being Hit

At the request of Randy Kahn in the Southwest SRA, Will Carlin was asked to write an open letter to their membership two years...

Will’s World The Simpson Paradox

By Will Carlin Nicolas Mueller is the best Swiss squash player ever. This past April, he became Switzerland’s highest-ranked player ever (No. 20 in the world) and, a week later,...

Will’s World 37 Days

By Will Carlin In May of 2009, a Google engineer named Matt Cutts sat at his desk and had an inspiration. By itself, this wasn’t...

Will’s World Go Mental

By Will Carlin The target for competitive shooters is incredibly small. The fifty meter rifle target has a diameter roughly equal to the length of...

Will’s World Underdogs

By Will Carlin My opponent was simply better. That’s why I was down 1-0 in the finals of the then-called MSRA (now NY Squash) Boys 18...