Comments on: What I’ve been reading

By: scott

scott — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:24:48 +0000

don’t forget to pick up stock in enron.

hasn’t anyone figured out a way to privatize peoples thoughts yet? is it too soon, y’all still trying to figure out how to get away with con jobs rather than earning a living respectfully?

there are plenty of enrons out there if y’all wish, but it takes a lot more intelligence and courage to make money ethically. just think about it.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:15:45 +0000

maybe you guys can find a book on ethics. all the fine things in life, like football, are no fun when your soul is rotten.

Y’all found a great football blog, though.

By: scott

scott — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:12:24 +0000

a full fledged defense of hedge funds is a revolting concept. tool.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:54:05 +0000

Joseph Ellis is an American treasure for our history. If you enjoy this, I highly, highly recommend American Sphinx, in which Ellis finds incongruities and contradictions in the character of Thomas Jefferson (i.e. descrying slavery and yet owning over 200 himself, praising the pastoral lifestyle despite it driving him deeply into debt, etc)

Love the blog, keep it up!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:04:31 +0000

I read Steve Belichick’s book about 3 months ago. I thought it was conceptually great in describing how to organize information. The offenses and defenses were different, but the challenge of collecting and organizing information remains……

By: WOHBuckeye

WOHBuckeye — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:23:54 +0000

The Hitchens memoir is really good, though I prefer his essays to his books. Sad given the timing of his memoir and his bout with esophageal cancer, which is a very low survival rate.

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:58:38 +0000

I have to agree with Eric Burke, the ideas in Football Scouting Methods are great, but Belichick was a much better coach than author. Still, the organization and detail of it all is good stuff. I’m about 3/4 of the way through it and am looking forward to applying it to the coming season.

By: Ted Seay

Ted Seay — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:40:12 +0000

Chris: >while the financial world was crumbling as a result of the risk taking of many

…not to mention the absurd and inevitably inflationary policies of the Fed, which started printing money like it was going out of style during the post-9/11 recession and has, if anything, increased its breakneck pace since then…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:20:29 +0000

I read the scouting book. I have adapted some sheets from that book and we them when breaking down film…some in the box during the game we are playing. I agree with the poster about getting to the meat, but the details are interesting too. If you can’t take something away from that book that you use, you shouldn’t be coaching now.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:59:36 +0000

I think you’ve got Jim Wolfensohn confused with Paul Wolfowitz. Jim preceded Paul as President of the World Bank. Jim was appointed by Clinton, while Paul was appointed near the end of the Bush administration.

The World’s Banker is about Jim, who was a popular WB president. Paul, while successful implementing anti-corruption measures, was not a popular WB president simply because the bank employees couldn’t get over the fact that he was the primary architect of the Iraq Invasion while serving as Deputy Sec. of Defense under Rumsfeld and is the face of the so-called “neocon cabal.”

Extremely minor point; however, it just happens to be something in which I’m interested. Love your site.