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Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. Notes from the May 2017 podcast between Bill Belichick and Paul Rabil. On Leadership. “The coaching part isn’t easy but I’ve had a lot of experience with that. It’s the overseeing of all the departments…the things that support our team…it all has to be … Continue reading Bill Belichick
Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. It’s Super Bowl week and what better way to celebrate that dig into the thinking behind one of the coaches (and general manager) at the game? The posts this week come from this short book. In my readings there were five big ideas that … Continue reading Belichick – Seek counterfactuals
Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. It’s Super Bowl week and what better way to celebrate that dig into the thinking behind one of the coaches (and general manager) at the game? The posts this week come from this short book. In my readings there were five big ideas that … Continue reading Belichick -Argue well
Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. It’s Super Bowl week and what better way to celebrate that dig into the thinking behind one of the coaches (and general manager) at the game? The posts this week come from this short book. In my readings there were five big ideas that … Continue reading Belichick – Top-down support
Supported by Greenhaven Road Capital, finding value off the beaten path. It’s Super Bowl week and what better way to celebrate that dig into the thinking behind one of the coaches (and general manager) at the game? The posts this week come from this short book. In my readings there were five big ideas that … Continue reading Belichick – pattern recognition
In the first post on Bill Belichick I noted that it was part of a larger work in progress. That work is done. It’s an e-book available on Amazon.com – free from October 12 through October 15. It’s shortish, about 7,000 words, and looks at five red team tools that Bill Belichick uses. Inversion. Turn the … Continue reading Red Teaming like Bill Belichick
My complete thoughts on Belichick are available on Amazon. This post is part one of five. Inversion Pattern recognition Top-down support Argue well Seek counterfactuals Drawing on inspiration from David Halberstam’s The Education of a Coach we’ll look at how Bill Belichick prepares by red teaming, specifically the act of inversion. Red teaming is the creation, … Continue reading Bill Belichick (invert, always invert)
This idea is related to Tyler Cowen’s idea of ‘meta-rationality’ which you read about in this pay-what-you want pdf. Perhaps there’s no better time to see, sort, and participate in over reactions than week one of the NFL. Though I only watch a full game or two a year, there are a lot of lessons … Continue reading An easy way to change your mind.
Wharton Moneyball Super Bowl Show. “I was blessed to know Bill (Belichick) back in college. We worked together for seventeen years. Bill can make complicated game plans but his general principles aren’t very difficult. He had three rules: be on time, pay attention, and work hard. Those seem like simple things but when you’re deaing … Continue reading The Right Proxies
Bias warning, My wife and I can work from home, my kids kinda like homeschool (but really miss their friends) and I wiped down the groceries in the garage. It’s always helpful to ask, has someone faced my situation before? The answer is often yes. Rory Sutherland thrives at this. On recent podcasts from Deep Dive (#249) … Continue reading Gambling with CoVid19
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