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No. 1 Thing Is That Life Is Just Not As Interrupt-driven As When You're Running A Company.

The Number One Benefit Of Information Technology Is That It Empowers People To Do What They Want To Do. It Lets People Be Creative. It Lets People Be Productive. It Lets People Learn Things They Didn't Think They Could Learn Before, And So In A Sense It Is All About Potential.

Baseball Is A Set Of Individuals Doing Their Thing In The Same Team, But It's Much More Individual. In Basketball People Are Making Real Time Decisions About Who Gets The Ball, Do We Trust Everybody Out On The Court, And The Analytics Certainly Don't Show You All Those Subtle Dynamics, But They're Very Important.

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