Wiser

“We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think.” Antonio Damasio

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How To Become Wiser: Stephanie Harrison shares how to build wisdom through self-reflection, questioning assumptions, and cultivating compassion.

“Our schedule is so condensed that one night of bad sleep, we’re already against the grain because we play late. So you’re not going to bed until certain times. Sometimes we’re on the road traveling, so you don’t get in until a certain time. To throw another bad night’s sleep into that equation, that’s going to affect you that much more.”

No more beer league: Why NHLers are choosing sleep optimization over alcohol during the season: Aaron Portzline explores alcohol’s impact on sleep, performance, and how pros chase every recovery edge.

🎙️ Podcast

Coaching U Podcast: Ep. 308 Billy Donovan, Chicago Bulls: Billy Donovan discusses authentic leadership and relationships, giving players ownership, and evolving pressing and pick-and-roll strategy. [9/30/2024 – 1 hr 10 min] Apple | Spotify | YouTube

“Rings and trophies are just a symbol of the sacrifice, the connection, the relationships that went on during that time. And I’ve realized that the most important thing is the relationships in terms of getting a group of people to come together to try to accomplish something they couldn’t accomplish on their own.”

💭 Miscellaneous

Shopify CEO on a recent podcast (source):

On leadership and consensus:

“Leadership and consensus lie on two ends of the same spectrum; they never fully overlap. Whenever a decision is made by consensus, leadership is absent. I also believe not enough people understand this — it still feels like a hidden truth. After all, in our language we treat “consensus” as a positive term, but in reality, it often signals the absence of leadership.”

Raise the floor; don’t lower the ceiling:

“What you’re trying to do — whether as a tool-maker, infrastructure builder, or product developer — is to create something that raises the floor significantly, but doesn’t lower the ceiling. That is extremely difficult. It might not always require decades to build the product, but it often takes decades to develop the mental model necessary to grasp all the facets of a problem domain. You have to look around five corners to ask, Am I going to constrain someone’s future potential by the choices I make now?”

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Maybe I’m just a biased Yankees fan who witnessed Cam Schlittler end the BoSox season in the Bronx last week, but I thought this was a wild stat: