Recency Bias

Continuous Refresh : NBA Free Agency had me fall off the social media wagon hard. Constant timeline refreshing, borderline obsessive. It came to an end when Kawhi signed with the LA Clippers. I've continued to fiend for a twitter fix. Social Media is the new smoking/standing/coffee etc. Kawhiiii: Nowadays if you build a quality basketball organization the stars will come to you. Unless they don't. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2844770-it-doesnt-matter-even-best-nba-franchises-cant-compete-with-superstar-whims Read : Thinking in Bets - This was a great read around better decision making. I love chess, but Annie Duke points out that chess is a game of complete information, everything is on the board. Life is more like poker where you have incomplete information and you must act  before you know everything.  Resulting is about judging the quality of your decision-making based on the result however there are many unknowns that affect the result. The key is to objectiv...

So worthwhile : Privileged by Kyle Korver  a phenomenal piece by Utah Jazz veteran on his learning and evolving viewpoint on race in America. Quick Read:  10 Tips for Building Products by Jason Fried  - a bunch of unconventional ideas on building successful software products. Fried knows, as a founder of Basecamp which has never taken funding and been successful for a long time. Ray Dalio has been all over the media talking about his opinion on how capitalism is broken.  What shouldn't surprise anyone is the number of people who have jumped up to attack his ideas. It's poorly written; other parts of capitalism are more broken; this was all self-serving etc. Short of a presidential run, I'm not sure what he's looking to get out of this beyond legacy.  He appears to be aligning himself in the Green New Deal camp, typically someone self-serving would appear to empathize but then propose some half-measure that wouldn't hurt him nor impact real change.