Matt Barber

Enjoying the little things. Family. Utah Jazz. Utah Utes. Aviation. Tweets and opinions are my own.

[Greg McKeown @GregoryMcKeown]

Most people don’t fail because they lack talent, intelligence, or ambition.

They fail because they are certain.

Certain they understand.
Certain they are right.
Certain they see reality clearly.
So they move fast. In the wrong direction.

Nothing is more dangerous than being confidently wrong.

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@RyanQualtrics My dad would love to go. He has become a die hard mammoth fan at age 67. He got all of his boys (even me who lives in deep Dallas Stars territory) mammoth hoodies for Christmas. He texts us tusks up before every game. I don’t think he’s missed watching a game yet.

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@crunchlabs my son’s box this month came without the right color motor wires for the omnibot forklift. The forklift does not work. How can we get the correct motor and motor wires?

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@jazzmomm It is sticker shock. But I would say $50 sounds like a deal these days. My kids’ were closer to $80-$100 if i remember right.

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@carriganholt @LegionHoops @ShamsCharania @flasportsbuzz My concern with some sort of lottery tournament is that the truly bad teams don’t have a very viable path to getting better.

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@carriganholt @LegionHoops @ShamsCharania @flasportsbuzz There will always be ways to game the system. No way to design it perfectly.

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@carriganholt @LegionHoops @ShamsCharania @flasportsbuzz How about teams in the lottery tournament can only play players who play in a certain number of regular season games? If you sit players in the regular season, you have to sit them in the lottery tournament as well.

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@JazzLead False. I think he works his way there.

[Greg McKeown @GregoryMcKeown]

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." — Henry David Thoreau

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@Tjonesonthenba He is so timid and passive on the court. Reminds me of watching Dante Exum his rookie year. Only Dante had the ball in his hands so at least he was part of the play.

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@JFloyd314 @PukaJimmer Aren’t P4 conference champs auto bids?

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@JazzJargon Not a pepperoni, but we love using soppressata. Especially drizzled with some hot honey.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Long-term thinking eliminates a lot of poor behavior.

[Farnam Street @farnamstreet]

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

― Atticus Finch

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"A happy, calm, and peaceful person will make better decisions. So if you want to operate at peak performance, you have to learn how to tame your mind."

@naval

[Greg McKeown @GregoryMcKeown]

Listening takes courage.

It takes courage to risk having to change how you see the world.

It takes courage to get into someone else's mind when they see the issue differently than you.

If it doesn't take courage, it's not the kind of listening that changes lives.

[Matt Barber @mbarb_]

@CHALVIN2018 @hallsrh Agree. I thought he was in Lauri’s landing space.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Anyone can do it once.

The best do it consistently.

Anyone can order a healthy meal once. Anyone can get up early to workout once. Anyone can save more than they earn for a month. Anyone can take their partner on a date once. Anyone can write a page. Anyone can focus on one thing for an hour.

Most people can’t do it consistently because they want instant gratification.

Just because the results aren't immediately visible, doesn’t meant they are not accumulating.

As these ordinary moments compound over weeks and months into results that are anything but ordinary.

Consistently boring days make for extraordinary decades.

[Landen Reynolds @LJ_Reny]

With the start of the new season today I’d like to start a following chain to follow as many Jazz fans as I can. Retweet this and follow other Jazz fans that have retweeted. I’ll follow back all who retweet & follow. Let’s built up the Jazz community for the new season! Go Jazz!