"Blindside", "Moneyball", OODA loops and the power of transformational ideas

[dwmyers]

Half way between philosophy and a Colin Cowherd sucks complaint, perhaps a bit of both..

http://codeandfootball.wordpress.co...-loops-a-romp-through-transformational-ideas/

An excerpt:

Moneyball’s main point was that certain traits that lead to winning baseball were undervalued, and that Billy Beane, a general manager of the Oakland Athletics, a team with a limited payroll, had become deft at mining sabermetrics experts for ways to find winning baseball talent that other teams didn’t know was talent. Moneyball, in other words, was a treatise in optimizing how to succeed. In it he did considerable homage to guys like Bill James, a brilliant man whose sharp tongue perhaps cost him at times. And for people like me, who grew up reading Bill James, wide eyed and implementing his formulas on our home computers, something finally of a vindication of trying to think and understand what we do.