Student of Life
I’ve written about sports frequently because I think the lessons are incredibly transferable. Athletics are extremely competitive with a long history of results-oriented focus. It’s a huge business, with a lot of attention, money and science aimed at maximizing results. While transferring lessons from a game can be dangerous, because any game is an over [...]
I’ve just been getting around to finishing the Bill Simmons–Malcolm Gladwell article on espn.com and it has to be the most intriguing, insightful and entertaining sports article I’ve read in a long time. Both pull from a wide range of disciplines have great knoweldge of the history of the sport and possess unique views about [...]
Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball, which popularized the revolutionary analytical approaches used to gain a competitive advantage in baseball, has his sights on doing the same for basketball. In this captivating New York Times Article, Lewis takes us into the world of the basketball quants attempting to discover how to define true basketball value [...]
