Soccer is the most European of sports because while the athletes are real and there is actual activity, the final outcomes are determined by procedural manipulation of random bureaucrats
I think he can see the end and has been witnessing it in every game. No wonder he plays with such passion; he doesn’t want to go out quietly; he’s raging against the dying of the light.
before i went into an interview recently, someone gave me advice that stayed with me throughout my recruiting process:
the point of an interview is *not* actually to get a job. it’s to reveal as much of yourself as possible, and understand as much as possible about the company/role, to see if there’s real alignment
there’s such a tendency in interviews to become performative, to say the right thing because you can usually intuit what they want to hear. that you care about X mission or Y role when really you deeply don’t. but getting an offer for something that isn’t actually a fit or what you want is ultimately not in anyone’s interest, neither yours nor the company’s
the more honest both parties can be, even within all the constraints, the better
I love Plato's allegory of the cave, because he's so clearly searching for television as an example, but it won't be invented for thousands of years, so he has to basically invent the concept of a projector (light source + shadow puppets) just for his hypothetical to work.
I was tired of getting called nino pequeno at work so I ditched my Transformers lunchbox and replaced it with a Citizen Kane lunchbox. Now they all call me Rosebud. To find a group of mexican laborers with such film literacy was almost as surprising as it was hurtful
People often speak as though there are two opposing camps: those who watch and those who calculate. This is an illusion. The first statistician was merely someone who watched carefully enough to begin counting.
@CanyonDriver The first look at @The_BBall_Index metrics say he’s not particularly good in Isolation D or in help defense.
Is his D a projection based on his length and athleticism?