Ben Carlson

Talk Your Book: Coaching the Yankees

On this edition of Talk Your Book, we sat down with Dana Cavalea, former strength and conditioning coach with the New York Yankees. We discussed: Why don’t more businesses have their own performance coaches? What happens when you find your dream job at age 23 Managing $300 million in human capital Lessons about work and…

Talk Your Book: Greg Zuckerman on Jim Simons & Renaissance Technologies

On this Talk Your Book we spoke with the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Zuckerman about his new book The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched a Quant Revolution.  We discussed: Zuckerman’s approach to writing this book Does Medallion have the greatest track record in history? The difference between Ren Tech and high-frequency…