Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Not to be a jinx but Boston teams are undefeated in 2019. The Bruins are 4-0 in January and the Celtics are also 4-0. Now watch them both lose tonight... "I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." - Gandhi... Not a criticism just an observation but Billy Joel's My Life sounds almost the same on Muzak... "The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles." - Naval Ravikant... Who has had the better NBA career - JJ Redick picked 11th overall in the 2006 NBA Draft or Rajon Rondo who went 10 picks later? I'm going to go with Rondo hands down... This story makes me think of this joke... "Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be." - W.H. Auden... 

Brian Colangelo's Burner Accounts

Wow! Just wow! Blown away by The Ringer's fascinating story of Brian Colangelo and his *cough*alleged*cough* Twitter burner accounts.

Five thoughts immediately occurred to me during and after reading the article:

1. First and foremost I thought of Charlie Munger's advice about it being much better to try not to do stupid things than it is to try and be "smart". What Colangelo looks like he did would definitely qualify as doing something stupid. Don't do stupid things! Just don't!

2. Don't trust people who like big stupid collars.

3. This situation both helps the Celtics and also highlights how lucky Boston is to have a responsible adult in Danny Ainge as GM.

4. How ironic would it be if the first place Brian Colangelo turns to to try and save his reputation is JJ Reddick's The Ringer associated podcast?

5. If things really do come in threes - who will be the next well known person to destroy their career because of Twitter misuse? First Roseanne, then Colangelo, and then...