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On the surface, the competition seems a fun diversion. But, like most things with Kerr, it’s more than that. What is coaching if not a power balancing act? Here is Kerr, one of the best shooters in NBA history and a famously (if quietly) competitive man, willing to publicly lose, repeatedly, to his star player. That takes a certain innate confidence that carries over to other areas. At the end of timeouts, he often asks the team if they’re seeing anything he isn’t. Earlier this year, reserve Leandro Barbosa suggested a late-game play. Kerr not only listened; he used it.
How Steve Kerr Transformed the Warriors Into NBA Title Favorites
Chris Ballard
Most organizations try to measure their output, and the smart ones use “paired metrics” that measure the cost of over-optimizing for a given metric. Sometimes, it’s possible to create a metric that embeds its own offsetting metric.
The Gamer/Arbitrageur to Generalist Pipeline
Byrne Hobart
Much of discussion circled around Schwartz's assertion that the most durable and influential of human artifacts are IDEAS. And a distinction worth drawing is between POWERFUL ideas and GOOD ideas. Not all powerful ideas turn out to be good, in the long run. For example, Schwartz proposed that monotheism has been an extremely powerful idea, dominating all kinds of human activity for millennia, but its overall goodness is increasingly questionable.
SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-Term Thinking
Stewart Brand
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