[AKN #91] What If We Found The Best Talent?
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The other day, I got a terrible case of the hiccups after a night of drinking.
Thankfully, after years of suffering from this alcohol induced affliction, I’ve become an expert at curing them.
I simply release all of the air out of my body and drink water upside down to the point where I find myself gasping for air.
That’s right. My home remedy cure for hiccups is to waterboard myself.
It’s incredibly effective and I highly recommend you give it a try if you find yourself with a treatment resistant case of the hiccups.
Because waterboarding gets results.
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LIVE: What If We Found The Best Talent?
In Tyler Cowen’s article about Talent Rules In The NBA, he writes:
This year the NBA story is one of talent — extreme talent. Talent so plentiful that even the middling teams are full of strong players. The broader lessons for the world economy are very optimistic.
He goes on to describe the three players competing for the Most Valuable Player award — Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo and how the NBA did a fantastic job in locating and deploying global talent to make their product better.
He reflects on what this more generally means:
The lessons and implications for the broader economy and society are insanely bullish. If the NBA can do this, other parts of the world can, too. Just imagine business and science (and maybe politics?) all improving at the rate of professional basketball. The most important form of wealth today is human capital. As the world moves further from a brute-force economy, human capital is also the major force driving productivity.
I really love this idea and think it is an excellent analogy for thinking about what we are leaving on the table simply by not discovering the appropriate talent.
What could the world be if we put the right people in the right places?
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