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- Howard Marks Memo: Inspiration From The World Of Sports
Link to Memo: Inspiration from the World of Sports I’m constantly intrigued by the parallels between investing and sports. They’re illuminating as well as fun, and thus they’ve prompted two past memos: “How the Game Should Be Played” (May 1995)...
- Bill Gates And Bill Clinton Interview
This interview took place on September 23 at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, a kind of wonk Woodstock occurring in conjunction with the opening of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The 42nd president was ubiquitous...
- Man And Superman: In Athletic Competitions, What Qualifies As A Sporting Chance? – By Malcolm Gladwell
Thanks to Sean for passing this along. What we are watching when we watch élite sports, then, is a contest among wildly disparate groups of people, who approach the starting line with an uneven set of genetic endowments and natural advantages. There...
- Kyle Bass: Japan's Adding A Ponzi Scheme To A Ponzi Scheme
Kyle Bass is on his favorite topic here at the Sohn Investment Conference — Japan. His bottom line is that the country's "shock and awe" monetary policy is going to work, and Japanese leaders are beginning to realize that. "What they're...
- To Twitter Users....
If you use Twitter, please consider voting for Joe Moglia as Division I-FCS Coach of the Year (HERE). The TD Ameritrade Chairman (who has a picture on his wall playing poker with Warren Buffett, in which Mr. Buffett signed it: “To Joe, who always...
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2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
Thanks to Lincoln for passing this along.
BOSTON -- The Los Angeles Lakers are the only team that does not have a representative listed at to the 2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference. Many teams made it public that they sent five or more. But even as the conference has expanded to the mainstream event it is today, there has remained a sense of conflict between two worlds: that of the removed statistical analyst, and that of the coach or player who can actually implement that analysis in competition.
The 2013 opening panel, which was moderated by Moneyball author Michael Lewis and featured Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Rockets GM Daryl Morey and 49ers COO Paraag Marathe, in addition to baseball and political sabermetrician Nate Silver, suggested that division is failing.
Titled "Revenge of the Nerds," the panel was something of a victory lap for those who longed to see sabermetricians in powerful roles within sports teams.
- Howard Marks Memo: Inspiration From The World Of Sports
Link to Memo: Inspiration from the World of Sports I’m constantly intrigued by the parallels between investing and sports. They’re illuminating as well as fun, and thus they’ve prompted two past memos: “How the Game Should Be Played” (May 1995)...
- Bill Gates And Bill Clinton Interview
This interview took place on September 23 at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, a kind of wonk Woodstock occurring in conjunction with the opening of the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The 42nd president was ubiquitous...
- Man And Superman: In Athletic Competitions, What Qualifies As A Sporting Chance? – By Malcolm Gladwell
Thanks to Sean for passing this along. What we are watching when we watch élite sports, then, is a contest among wildly disparate groups of people, who approach the starting line with an uneven set of genetic endowments and natural advantages. There...
- Kyle Bass: Japan's Adding A Ponzi Scheme To A Ponzi Scheme
Kyle Bass is on his favorite topic here at the Sohn Investment Conference — Japan. His bottom line is that the country's "shock and awe" monetary policy is going to work, and Japanese leaders are beginning to realize that. "What they're...
- To Twitter Users....
If you use Twitter, please consider voting for Joe Moglia as Division I-FCS Coach of the Year (HERE). The TD Ameritrade Chairman (who has a picture on his wall playing poker with Warren Buffett, in which Mr. Buffett signed it: “To Joe, who always...