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The James Altucher Show

How to Make It in the NBA | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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James Altucher

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz discusses his AI-assisted book "Who Makes the NBA," exploring groundbreaking insights in basketball analytics and potential business applications.

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0:00.0

Seth Stevens Davidovitz. He's one of the most fascinating guys I ever interviewed.

0:13.0

He does all this weird data analysis

0:16.1

where he finds the secret truths about humanity

0:20.2

from the data.

0:21.4

Like I remember in his first book where he's talking about how this entire country had this

0:26.7

weird fetish that we speak about a little on this podcast coming up, but you only know about it because

0:31.5

it shows up in the Google data.

0:33.2

It's like no one ever talks about this, they just Google it.

0:36.0

And so you find out all these secrets of human beings from all this weird kind of data.

0:42.4

And Seth is the guy to find weird data.

0:46.0

He's been doing it for years.

0:48.0

He's written two books on it now a third.

0:50.0

The third book is called Who Makes the NBA,

0:53.8

Data Driven Anspers to basketball's biggest questions.

0:57.4

Plus, how I created this book in 30 days using AI,

1:00.5

which is a fascinating part of this conversation as well, because it's very interesting how AI is playing a role in writing.

1:07.0

But don't think this is about basketball.

1:10.0

This is more about an approach to data and how things we assume are often wrong.

1:17.8

And so I'm not a basketball player.

1:19.7

I've never, maybe I've watched one basketball game in my life, but this was a fascinating topic for me.

1:25.7

So Seth asked questions like what percent of seven foot tall players are in the NBA?

1:32.0

Are seven foot tall players actually good athletes?

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