Humility, prudence, and honesty are not just nice virtues to have—they are practical tools that produce good outcomes. When you replace them with greed, lust, hypocrisy, and dishonesty, terrible things happen.

David Brooks: I Should Have Seen This Coming - The Atlantic

Via @Manton

The end of an eventful weekend, friends, family, and hanging out with our community at home

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Earlier this week: in Nuremberg for work

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I’m no PSG fan, but my cousin took me out to the game today :)

With this 1-0 Win, PSG wins their 13th domestic title, league early

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Took the little one to her very first basketball game today! And enjoyed a nice end-of-day at home with some gorgeous blooms on the way, along with golden light in the lounge :)

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Never missing an opportunity to share fellow bon vivant Action Bronson’s adventures in Paris:

no one makes me want to roam the city [Paris] quite like American rapper and food enthusiast Action Bronson.

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Color is never just color… it’s light, meaning, and mood.

Taken from my wife’s life and interior design newsletter

Life of a Sports Fanatic: chill Saturday night watching

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No one cares. That’s okay

The future of European Basketball is being written in front of our eyes

Some really interesting developments for European Basketball:

A jubilant Paris Basketball team, including a player (Yakuba Ouattara) with a megaphone, celebrates on the court surrounded by fans and staff.

NBA Europe

  1. The NBA officially announced that they’re looking at creating a league in Europe — which has been rumored for 30 years, with a big increase of rumors these past few months.

There’s a lot that’s still up in the air between FIBA vs Euroleague, and the NBA announcing this in partnership with FIBA. But the future of European Basketball is definitely going ti be defined by this, whether it works or not.

Personally I welcome the NBA —provided that they take into consideration the specificities, culture, history and tradition that we have here on the Old Continent.

One thing that worries me though is that they seem to be interested in talking to established football ⚽️ teams instead of trying to find a way to work with established Basketball Clubs. For example: the rumor is that they’d better work with, PSG (Paris St Germain) than my existing Paris Basketball team.

Which leads me to my second point:

Paris Basketball (my hometown team)

  1. Paris Basketball is already assured of staying in the Euroleague next year. …which is both a sign that:

I guess I’m keeping my season ticket for years to come 🎫 🏀

Finally discovered our local library and was delighted to take this graphic novel out for a loan!

Bowie by Mike Allred 📚

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This goes against a lot of things I believe in — which is unsurprising since it’s about New York-based corporate culture…

“New York’s Work-From-Home Moment Is Over But the Office Has Shrunk”

This #Orioles team is SPECIAL man! ADLEY and now O’Neill 🤩

Don’t trust people who can’t admit fault.

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Been stuck on something for work the past few days — something minor but couldn’t wrap my head around it.

Took some time to formulate it to my AI overlords, with the right context and suddenly things are cleared up. I love using it to help me gain clarity — feels kinda super power-ish

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The Trump regime remains a shitty, segregationist enterprise that is unworthy of anyone’s respect or obeisance.

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Finally took some time to open my @Topps Series 1 card packs today, ahead of the upcoming Baseball season :)

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Been starved of Baseball — very excited for the start of the Tokyo Series later today between the Dodgers & Cubs!

Think of any game you played as a kid and I can almost guarantee you that you can play that game today “across new devices and in new ways” today. This doesn’t need AI at all, it’s been happening for decades via emulation.

Spent some time with the pals at Fixtured to tell my story of being a sports fan :)

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