This week’s guest is Canadian author and journalist Chris Jones.
Chris has served as writer-at-large for Esquire magazine, for whom he has won two National Magazine Awards and saw one piece adapted for the 2018 Netflix series, Away.
He is also the author of several books, and his latest is called The Eye Test: A Case for Human Creativity in the Age of Analytics.
We discuss the thesis of his book: the limitations of relying solely on analytics in sport and elsewhere in life, showing how Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics along with Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool actually prove his belief.
We also hear how Chris almost told the _Moneyball _story before Michael Lewis, and how he is responsible for the debacle that was Conor McGregor versus Floyd Mayweather.
Chris’ picks were:
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