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Baseball people believed they knew the answers to those questions, and all the others. But those assumptions hadn’t been tested in decades, if ever, so it shouldn’t be surprising that many of them turned out to be wrong. From that gap between the assumed and the actual, Beane and his assistants were able to use their limited budget to construct div
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- Founding teams may look like that of a “traditional” Silicon Valley startup. They’re native to Silicon Valley ethos, skills, and playbooks. But , beneath the surface, they’re different. You m
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Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Braun’s belief that simulations might allow “groups to collaboratively decide what would be in their interest,”
Chaim Gingold • Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine (Game Histories)
learning was driven by endless curiosity, paying attention to what players did, what their idiosyncracies were, discovering their “signature styles.”
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
high-velocity incrementalism—small and quick iterations of controlled experiments aided by computer simulation—Team New Zealand shows how learning by experimentation can work.
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
He learned how to find the spaces between the fielders.