Sam Hinkie
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
People make plenty of jumps.
Those catch our eyes because they're anomalies, because they're unusual.
If you shot 85 last year, you might shoot 80 this year.
You might shoot 88.
You won't shoot 95.
You're not going to shoot 65.
That's on something easy like free throw shooting.
There's a bunch of other things in which it's not easy.
And can you say it out loud?
We're trying to sort of shoot fish in a barrel here and the barrel is huge and we're kidding ourselves.
And if you're not sure, here's the meeting notes from the last five times we made this decision.
We went one for five.
And by the way, it's not because we suck.
I'm not trying to get anyone fired.
Everybody sucks.
This thing is hard and we don't have much signal into this and it's wildly sort of contextually oriented.
Is there an example of that?
Oh, all the time, just like causality.
There's a common one in sports.
This guy would be a great culture guy.