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More Gladwell Basketball!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

For those of you who liked the last post, this is pure internet gold: Gladwell meets The Sports Guy! In _three_ parts! Good god, Peaches just exploded!

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David vs. Goliath

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Great Gladwell article up over at The New Yorker about David vs. Goliath. Gladwell articles follow a particular pattern that goes like this: Example A: (The pressing basketball team as David) Thesis: (David can’t fight Goliath by his own rules) Example B: (Lawrence of Arabia as David) Thesis elaboration Example A cont: (History of basketball [...]

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Yoda deconstructs your life

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Quoting Yoda at me is a sure-fire way to piss me off. The first time this happened was when DDB asked me to do something.  I said I would try.  “Do or do not,” he said, “there is no try.”  This was annoying enough to have made it into one of my more popular stories, [...]

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