Talking Life, In Theory with Adam Harstad

Adam Harstad is a phenomenal thinker. Over the past couple of years I've seen him distill complex ideas from several disciplines and apply them to fantasy football. This episode covers interesting frameworks that transcend football, including risk homeostasis, second-order thinking, resource allocation, and many more. You can find a collection of his writing here.

Timestamps

(2:12) How to figure out what to write about

(5:12) Risk homeostasis

(19:21) Future of quantifiable stats, and measuring second-order effects

(40:47) Probability

(53:24) Danger of a plausible narrative

(1:01:37) Consistency in fantasy football

(1:10:45) Strong opinions, weakly held

(1:19:37) Twitter

(1:25:57) How to choose a GM, and how to manage draft strategy

(1:45:03) Principal-agent problem in football

(1:54:58) Measuring rates of change

(1:59:06) Resource allocation

(2:03:54) Zero-sum games

(2:13:15) 25th hour