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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

You can learn the technical skills later on, and you’ll be more motivated to learn more of the technical skills when you have some problem you’re trying to solve or some financial incentive to do so. So, I think not specializing too early is important. And also how much do we know about this problem.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

Most of us assume that if we want to change people’s behavior, we need to change their incentives.

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How an NBA Team Thinks About Data, Talent, and Pricing

Harvard Business Review

That way, when the going is good, you can maximize your upside yield on assets like ticket sales and merchandise, and when the team isn’t performing quite as well, you have a hedge in place to protect your downside risk. When you don’t need to win games to make money, what’s the incentive to win?

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