Nate Baker's Newsletter #158 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers What Coaches Say They Actually Need the Most January 30, 2026 | Read on my website | Read time: 3-4 minutes Last week, I posed a simple question: Who Is Coaching the Coach? More specifically: Who is helping you stay directionally correct? How do you ensure you keep taking steps toward your potential? And what...
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Nate Baker's Newsletter #157 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers Who is Coaching the Coach? January 23, 2026 | Read on my website | Read time: 6 minutes Coaching can be a lonely vocation. You hold a vision worth pursuing without any guarantee it will ever be realized. That has multiple downstream effects. It can create the conditions for self-discovery and mastery. But it...
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Nate Baker's Newsletter #156 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers How a Coach Changes Lives January 16, 2025 | Read on my website | Read time: 5 minutes I don’t remember the result, but I do remember the bus ride home. First season as a first assistant at the US Naval Academy. A young coach treading water. Trying to get his bearings. Just trying to be useful. We were heading...
21 days ago • 5 min read
Nate Baker's Newsletter #155 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers 97% of Leaders Still Don’t Get It January 9, 2026 | Read on my website | Read time: 5 minutes Nothing exposes misunderstanding faster than unsuccessful people explaining success. I was a young college assistant on the recruiting trail. Our program had just completed its best season in about five decades. And I...
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Nate Baker's Newsletter #154 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers 10 Years Later: Achilles FC and the Long Game of Development January 2, 2026 | Read on my website | Read time: 6-7 minutes The single most important factor in creating something special is NOT… Personal skill (artistry) Conditions Infrastructural leverage Access Or even the validity of your ideas It’s time....
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Nate Baker's Newsletter #153 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers 7 Wishes for the Coach You’re Becoming December 26, 2025 | Read on my website | Read time: 4-5 minutes I find it really interesting the memories we decide to hold onto. Especially the innocuous ones. The ones that don’t feel like much. But almost spiritually, your mind decides to hold onto them, knowing their...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Nate Baker's Newsletter #152 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers All Coaches Need Permission to Do This December 19, 2025 | Read on my website | Read time: 4-5 minutes I just spent 2 hours unsuccessfully trying to change the bands on my $18 watch. It broke in season after about 2.5 years. But it broke while we were on an unbeaten streak, so I just held it in my hands during...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Nate Baker's Newsletter #151 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers The Player Development Bubble is About to Burst December 12, 2025 | Read on my website | Read time: 5 minutes Six months ago I wrote that this isn’t getting any better. I was wrong… It’s getting progressively worse. I just arrived back from a week in Phoenix, Arizona. The host city of this year’s winter MLS...
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
Nate Baker's Newsletter #150 "The coaching education newsletter for those dedicated to helping their people pursue their potential." The Culture Rep Essential Reading for All Developers You Can’t Predict Who Your Players Will Become December 5, 2025 | Read on my website | Read time: 5-6 minutes The moment you define a player’s potential is the moment you stop being a Developer coach. None of us own a crystal ball. We’ve seen the can’t-miss products miss. And the players who “weren’t good...
2 months ago • 7 min read