Back in grad school, I was actually one of the more elite marketing students in the graduate program at William and Mary. Not in finance, accounting but in actual marketing. I never did anything with the latter.

I was struggling with two of my teammates on a group project where we competed using generic similar products (SIMI SIBI) vying for marketshare and increased sales. It was a computer simulation and we were doing horribly. After two weeks, we trailed the rest of the class by a considerable margin.

We had a check in after a couple weeks and our professor listened to our presentation and offered us this sage advice.

Read the fucking directions

Our next group session that was our first order of business to read those directions. Admittedly, it was something we never did.

After we read the directions our team started doing marketably better. We eventually ended at the top of the class. We had figured out capitalism. Read the fucking directions it’s all there is to capitalism.

Of course that sentence is hyperbolic nonsense but it’s a good start in the right direction. What brought me here is a common mistake made when implementing software. This is what I’m doing right now, and I actually remembered I didn’t read the directions I just assumed that’s how it worked. And guess what reading the directions certainly helps.

San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon is a finalist for the Portland Trail Blazers‘ vacant head coaching position, The Athletic’s Shams Charania and Sam Amick report.

I rarely if ever comment on sports as I don’t live in a sports world and I don’t find it all that important. That being said I do find it rather interesting and a bit of a reflection on life.

So apparently Becky Hammons is a finalist for the Trail Blazers head-coaching job. I honestly have no idea how good of a coach she may be. All I have to say if she is the best coach available hire her in a minute. And I hate to admit, I will become an even bigger fan of the Portland trailblazers.

A good friend of mine, that I went to high school with, was the first female referee in the NBA. And all that is fine and dandy, she was a downright able referee and that is all that matters. As an aside, she did once Kick my butt at one on one basketball.

It’s all sports, and mostly fun and games. I believe there should be a big shout out to Gregg Popovich who gave her the chance, who took the chance and put her in the spot to succeed. Something tells me she will make Damian Lillard even better.

This is one of my all-time favorite novels. I’ve read it twice. And I read it once during one of the more difficult times in my life. It didn’t pull me through but it gave me perspective.

This photo in the New York Times haunted me. I wanted to capture it. The drawing part was pure escapismdfun. Looking for why I am so capture by a photo is the interesting part.

However if people of color armed themselves as a bloc, gun control legislation would be on the books in the time it takes to load a musket.