Sam Hinkie

But yeah, I would say slowing down is a common technique.

We've talked a lot about people and their characteristics, and I'm going to come back to more of those questions because, as I said before, I think ultimately people are the most interesting topic.

But you're very famous for having brought a lot of the ideas –

best practices thinking from the investing and business world to sports.

And now you're going the other direction.

And so I'd love to map that journey to and from by first asking what you think the most effective things that you brought from the investing and business learnings that you had done into the NBA.

And then I'll ask what you're taking out of that experience and bringing it back to the business world.

I don't think it's anything really about me or how I thought about the world.

It's just a different perspective.

What things that I think maybe move the needle for me or people like me in sports were the ability to zoom out and have perspective.

If I'm good at anything, it's perspective in a whole bunch of ways.

Sometimes that gets me in trouble.

It makes me not so good at day-to-day, sometimes week-to-week things, but makes me quite good on a multi-year kind of thing.

Zoom out and have perspective.

Understand how to have intellectual humility about what you know and what's unknowable and what your confidence intervals on all these things.

You want to predict who's going to be a good free throw shooter next year?

You ought to have a fairly tight confidence interval, and data can help you a lot, even simple data.

Look up last year's.

Look up their career numbers.

It's pretty straightforward.