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“When he’d go up and dunk, it reminded me of a Christmas tree, with defenders hanging off of him like ornaments,” said Greg Kite, Orlando’s backup center. “Or they were the bowling pins, and he was an enormous 300-pound ball.
Jeff Pearlman • Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
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Kent Haruf • Plainsong (Plainsong series Book 1)
Right through middle school Sam was a good but not great student, defined mainly by his disinterest in whatever his teacher was saying. “I was obedient in that I wouldn’t do shit I wasn’t supposed to do,” said Sam. “But I wouldn’t necessarily do shit I…
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Gibson Biddle, former VP of Product Management at Netflix, called this approach part of their “DHM model”, which stands for Delighting customers in Hard-to-copy, Margin-enhancing ways.
David Mannheim • The Person in Personalisation: The Story Of How Marketing's Most Treasured Possession Became Anything but Personal
Omensetter’s Luck, Wittgenstein’s Mistress, and Blood Meridian, but added Jerzy Kosinski’s little-known Steps,