The Blind Side
Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.
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- I'm almost 50. The last fiction book I read was Frankenstein in 1995. I haven't read a fiction book since then because it feels like a waste of time for me, personally. I do read comic books and watch movies.
I have however read a few non-fictional books from Michael Lewis, like Moneyball, Blind Side, Big Short, etc. Less than 5, though. I've read parts of hundreds of computer books for work and for education.
Do what feels natural to you. I like reading computer books rather than blog posts but it depends on how thorough the article is. I find a lot of blog posts to not be thorough enough to answer my questions, and many books are better for what I'm looking for. Others may feel differently, and it's all personal preference.
- Not every episode is like that.
Take [0], where John Allison of BB&T discusses his business philosophy, and as an aside mentions that his bank doesn’t issue negative amortization mortgages (a cause of the recession) in 2007.
Or [1], where Michael Lewis discusses Moneyball and The Blind Side.
Or [2], where Christopher Hitchens discusses George Orwell.
Or [3], where Paul Graham talks about Hackers and Painters.
EconTalk has something for everyone.
[0] http://www.econtalk.org/allison-on-strategy-profits-and-self...
[1] http://www.econtalk.org/michael-lewis-on-the-hidden-economic...
[2] http://www.econtalk.org/hitchens-on-orwell/
[3] http://www.econtalk.org/graham-on-start-ups-innovation-and-c...
- I suppose one could add this book to
The Blind Side -- the story of how one of Michael Lewis's classmates as an Ole Miss booster, gave impermissible benefits to a high school recruit and got away with it.
Moneyball -- the story of a GM with 0 World Series appearances and a .530 WP.
- even if he was executive director, still not senior, more midlevel.
hierarchy is - management committee > partner managing director > managing director > executive director > vice president > associate > analyst
managing director is where you would be running a business, sort of like making general in the army, there are about 1700 of them. And the partners are the true senior managers and where real authority in the firm starts. Title inflation FTW.
He might have trouble eating lunch in this town without changing his name LOL. Best bet might be to write and try to be the next Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, contributes to Bloomberg and Vanity Fair, didn't turn out too bad for him.)
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- Michael Lewis talks about the mismatch between salary and value for offensive lineman in his book "The Blind Side", which is similar to how great hackers are underpaid according to their value. Once the NFL shifted to a free market, the salaries of offensive lineman sky-rocketed 10x in some cases.
The problem for most hackers as I see it is that you can't know someone's value until you've worked with them for awhile. Since your value isn't "public information", your salary won't get driven up through a bidding war.
