Mike "Bagel"
- Donald Trump is an uncannily accommodating vessel for projection, good and ill. It occurs as something of a cosmic joke that his last name is “Trump,” which is the Joker in a deck of cards, a wild card, the card that can be any card. So it is that Donald Trump can be any character, whatever people hold him to be. This serves both to elevate him and... See more
from Shades of Many Colors by Charles Eisenstein
Work will feel different when you shift from seeking enoughness through work to a place where you already believe that you are enough. You start to choose work that you genuinely enjoy. I’m finding joy in my work today that I’ve never known before.
from How to Downshift by David Spinks
- So, is Jacobs right to say that baseball was better when we knew less about it? And here we are at the crux of the issue from another angle: how is the goodness of the game measured and accounted for? Or, more to the point, can the goodness of the game be measured? If not, then in what would the goodness of the game consist? And, an equally interes... See more
from The Limits of Optimization by theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Baseball offers perhaps the world’s richest data set: pretty much everything that has happened on a major-league playing field in the past 140 years has been dutifully and accurately recorded, and hundreds of players play in the big leagues every year.
from The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver
- Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the tea... See more
from MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
- “A lot of writing consists of waiting around for the aquarium to settle so you can see the fish. Walking around muttering seems to hasten the process. Taking public transportation nowhere helps. Looking out the bus window lets the back of your mind move forward. Don’t listen to anything but natural sound. Don’t look at anything you have to turn on.... See more
from The North Shore by Austin Kleon
- If the work feels like a drag, you're doing it wrong
from 30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
Oooo yes. Attitude is everything.
- Embrace the fact that there is no one like you, no touch like yours. Embrace your own magic touch .
from 30 Lessons From Art / Business / Life — Kening Zhu
- “No one can play a game alone. One cannot be human by oneself. There is no selfhood where there is no community. We do not relate to others as the persons we are; we are who we are in relating to others. Simultaneously the others with whom we are in relation are themselves in relation. We cannot relate to anyone who is not also relating to us. Our ... See more
from Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse by James Carse