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I am mildly obsessed with these moments in history, specifically sports history, when somebody looks at the way everybody is doing something and says, but wait a second.
What if I tried it this totally unexpected other way?
You know, famously in high jump, a guy named Dick Fosbury started jumping over the bar backwards, and it was so effective that now everyone does it.
Or in baseball, at some point, a very clever player was like, what if instead of swinging at a fast moving ball, what if I just hold the bat up to where the ball is gonna be and knock it frustratingly into the infield and the bunt is born?
Love the bunt.
And look, I'm obsessed with these moments because it forces everyone to be like, wait a second, can they do that?
That can't be legal.
But, yeah, it is.
And the game is changed forever.
And, Kenny, of course, these moments don't just happen in sporting competition.
They happen in our world, too, the world of economics and business.
And there's an example that has become particularly relevant right now.
Yeah, so we're in the middle of what people have been calling hot labor summer.
I guess it's turned into, I don't know, unseasonably warm labor fall or whatever.
But yes, we are seeing this spate of labor actions across the country.
Strikes in Hollywood, at hospitals and schools, at car factories.
And, you know, strikes are not so different from sports.
They both have chanting and people holding up punny signs.
But more importantly, they also have competing teams employing tactics and counter tactics and counter counter tactics.