I liked The Blind Side, but found it more entertaining than insightful, and I think he papers over the most interesting conflict in the story --- whether Michael Oher's benefactors were in fact gaming the college football recruitment system.

The Blind Side, The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Sex at Dawn.

If asked, I would say those aren't the books I've found most amazing but they're the ones I felt compelled to give as gifts.

Tangentially related, I've been listening to The Blind Side, a podcast about technology made by a blind person. It's interesting to learn tricks that don't require vision to interact with tech.

I suppose one could add this book to

The Blind Side -- the story of how one of Michael Lewis's classmates as an Ole Miss booster, gave impermissible benefits to a high school recruit and got away with it.

Moneyball -- the story of a GM with 0 World Series appearances and a .530 WP.

I'd highly recommend The Blind Side. Its nothing like the movie which seems to be targeted to middle-aged housewives.

Oh, lord, no. His best book, by far, is Moneyball, and then The Blind Side, The Big Short, and then Liar's Poker --- though I trust The Big Short less after Flash Boys.

For instance, the book "The Blind Side" [1] is about a black kid who got adopted by an evangelical family.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Side:_Evolution_of_a_...

Check out the movie "The Blind Side" (2009) or the book by the same name. Its explores this very issue.

It is obvious that you have never played football. Go read "The Blind Side" and then get back to us.

Pretty much everything he writes is a good read. He takes his liberties here and there (especially with Flash boys), but he is an intelligent man with a knack for story-telling. Very easy reading.

So add Moneyball, Liar's Poker, The Big Short (good telling of the 2007 financial crisis), Panic (contrasts before and after news articles around financial crises) and The Blind Side to the list.

(Don't let The Blind Side motion picture scare you off. The book has a lot of on-and-off-the field football strategy that I found interesting.)

Michael Lewis talks about the mismatch between salary and value for offensive lineman in his book "The Blind Side", which is similar to how great hackers are underpaid according to their value. Once the NFL shifted to a free market, the salaries of offensive lineman sky-rocketed 10x in some cases.

The problem for most hackers as I see it is that you can't know someone's value until you've worked with them for awhile. Since your value isn't "public information", your salary won't get driven up through a bidding war.

"The size of the people. In both sports their has been an increase in the mass of the players. However US football players seems disproportionately massive. In Rugby their are not rolling substitutions, so you have to carry that mass around for 80 minutes, and therefore a compromise is necessary, perhaps gridiron could restrict the number of subs, or the squad size so the bruisers actually had to run."

You are correct that NFL players are much, much larger than comparable rugby players. NFL linemen are enormous.

And they can run. It is not uncommon in 2017 to see 300+ pound linemen that can run quite fast. Michael Oher, the subject of the Michael Lewis book _The Blind Side_[2] is 6'4", has an actual weight of 320+ pounds, and is described to move very quickly on the basketball court.

However it is not these large players that are involved in the concussion hits. It is the "smaller" 200+ pound players who, while wearing full pads, can run as fast as olympic sprinters and launch themselves into opponents at full speed.

I'm afraid the "bruisers" can already run and the "small guys" are the size of normal rugby players. And are faster.

This is why I find the NFL so enormously compelling: In the 21st century, what happens in an NFL game is otherworldly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Oher

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Side:_Evolution_of_a...

I have; even the painfully dated "Next: The Future Just Happened"; Lewis is even worth reading when he's writing about Marillion, the UK's answer to Kenny Loggins.

If you're an entrepreneur and you haven't read Moneyball, [insert snark here].

I was disappointed by The Blind Side, his football book, but it was at least well-written and enjoyable.

I even have a huge bound volume of classic econ texts with his commentary in it. I will probably never really finish it, but I'm a huge fan and a completeist, so, he got me.