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Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time ...
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Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A tw...
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We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already ...
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Just hours before Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals, I was feeling a little confused and a lot exasperated. In Decentrali...
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There’s been a recent, fundamental cultural shift in how we process sports narratives. For a long time we relied on l...
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Parents have been raising children since the beginning of time. They learned from watching their parents and grandpar...
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Parents have been raising children since the beginning of time. They learned from watching their parents and grandpar...
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I opened my news app this morning. By the fourth headline my mind stopped reading and started mapping. The map it mad...
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Download PDF There is a man named Plinko who used to work as a clown on kids' night at a Ground Round restaurant in J...
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Download PDF In 1953, Samuel Beckett wrote a play where two men wait for someone who does not come. They insist he wi...
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I'm in a Starbucks on a Tuesday afternoon, half-working, half-staring at a wall, when the opening synth line comes th...
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Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom · March 25 “As you acquire objects, and you use them, you should keep in mind that they ...
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This essay was originally published on March 24th as "Three Generations of Men, One Unsettled Question." It's already...
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Growing up, there was a short pile of books sitting out on the cocktail table in the den of my childhood home, the ki...
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Sprezzatura. Say it out loud. Spreh-za-TOO-rah. Let it sit in your mouth for a second. Sounds like something you'd wa...
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On the theft of original thought and my fury at those who caused it. There are many times throughout the day when I p...
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a c...
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For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent l...
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Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in ear...
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A note before you read. This is an experiment. I've spent years accumulating ideas, knowledge, and ways of thinking a...