🏈 Gridiron Gambles 🏈

Can a single person transform your organization?

I’m skeptical.

Read why in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Rational Expectations
2. Book Recommendation: “The Loser’s Curse” by Cade Massey and Richard Thaler
3. What I Read This Week: Stress Rewires Your Brain

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🤡 The Crypto Circus 🤡

Pop quiz:

What does the late Charlie Munger compare to a combination of artificial gold, turds, and rat poison?

Bitcoin.

Read more in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Blockchain
2. Book Recommendation: Read Write Own: Building the Next Extra of the Internet
3. What I Read This Week: Does social media affect mental illness?

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😵‍💫 Chronicles of Cluelessness 😵‍💫

Raise your hand if you’ve ever silently referred to a colleague as “stupid” or “incompetent”?

For those with your hands up, I applaud your honesty.

For those with your hands down, stop lying to yourself. 

Read more in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: The Peter Principle
2. Book Recommendation: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
3. What I Read This Week: So, you think you’ve been gaslit?

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🔭 Searching for Fabio 🔭

Can you think of one opportunity in your life where you felt passed over because you weren’t attractive enough?

Sigh. We’ve all been there before.

Moneyball won’t make you more beautiful, but it may make you feel more beautiful. 

Read why in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Halo Effect
2. Book Recommendation: Ninety Percent Mental by Bob Tewksbury
3. What I Read This Week: Blessed Are the Ship Pilots

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🤹🏼 Keeping Your Balance 🤹🏼

DOES IT BOTHER YOU WHEN PEOPLE WRITE EMAILS IN ALL CAPS?

It definitely bothers me.

Clearly, I need to lighten up.

Read why in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Attentional Bias
2. Book Recommendation: True North by Bill George
3. What I Read This Week: Curing Addition Sickness

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🐦 Bird Brains 🐦

Opening Day is this week!

The Orioles have the number one farm system in baseball.

I haven’t been this excited about the Orioles since my Bar Mitzvah!

Should I buy my tickets to the World Series now!?!?!?

Not so fast…

Read why in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Best-Case Heuristic
2. Book Recommendation: The Hard Thing About Hard Things
3. What I Read This Week: Adam Grant explains astrology

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🤔 Your Shadow Knows 🤔

Every leader has a dark side.

Read why in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Clearness Committee
2. Book Recommendation: Let Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer
3. What I Read This Week: Arresting Tupac’s killer

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😱 Serenity now 😱

“We have to keep our composure!”

This is a terrible strategy for keeping your composure, yet we implicitly employ it more often than we realize.

Read why in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Affect Heuristic
2. Book Recommendation: Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
3. What I Read This Week: Do you think proportionally?

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☮️ Artificial Harmony ☮️

I’ve never loved pleas for “Jewish unity.”

Read why in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Consensus Bias
2. Book Recommendation: Complicit by Max Bazerman
3. What I Read This Week: The art of doing niksen

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🏈 Armchair Quarterbacks 🏈

But by now, you are aware that you over-estimate your abilities.

So do I. And so do all of us.

However, the story is more interesting than that.

Read more in this week’s issue of Moneyball Judaism:

1. Big Idea: Hard-Easy Effect
2. Book Recommendation: The Right King of Wrong, Amy Edmondson
3. What I Read This Week: When Elmo asks how you are doing…

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