What an ending this is shaping up to be! 🏈
What!? 🤯 All three playoff games so far decided by a game-ending field goal!? L.A. should have owned it, but Tom Brady made it a real game in the second half. What an ending! Go Rams! 🏈
Ugh, so painful. Special teams lost us that game. Congrats to the 49ers for sucking less. Crazy that both #1 seeds lost on a last-second field goal. 🏈
Rookie kicker. Second-year quarterback. 1st playoff win in 30 years last week. Headed to division championship game. What a season for the Bengals! 🏈
Yes!! Go Bengals! They controlled almost the whole game. How fitting that an interception led to the field goal for the win. 🏈
Big man touchdown!! Go Chiefs! 🏈
Mike Tomlin: “Don’t blink. If you’re a blinker, cut your eyelids off.” 🏈😆
What an incredible ending! Early on, looked like it wasn’t even going to be a game. So sad to end like it did. But congrats 49ers! 🏈 🥳
Bengals! First playoff win in over 30 years! And it’s won on an interception. 🏈🤩
What an ending! Congrats Georgia!! Such a close game the whole time and then Georgia busts open to end it. Glad I let the 9yo stay up instead of going to bed at 19-18. Fitting that the defense wins it. So fun! 🏈
This game is the most adrenaline I’ve felt this season. 😳🤯🏈
☑️ 📖 🎧 Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendency Book III: Lesser Evil by Timothy Zahn
📖 The Tripods Book 1: The White Mountains
By John Christopher
Just relaxing on a birthday getaway watching professional cornhole and enjoying the end of micro.camp. 😎
📖 The Hilarious World of Depression
By John Moe
(Read in its entirety on my birthday getaway)
☑️ 📖 💭 Come, Sweet Day by Julianne Donaldson
My wife and 3yo were drawing together, and my wife drew this picture.
3yo: “What is that?”
Wife: “Well, it was going to be a frog.”
3yo: “And then what happened?”
😂
What a fun gold medal game! 🏀 🥇 🇺🇸
You can only become a better writer by becoming a better reader.
You have far more experience as a reader than you do as a writer.
You’ve read millions of words arranged by other writers.
How many sentences have you made so far?
📖 🎧 Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Book II: Greater Good
By Timothy Zahn
Greenfield vs. Brownfield
I came across a fantastic article today from Austin Kleon’s weekly newsletter that he wrote called “The pirate gardener”. It’s worth reading in full.
In it, he shares that Brian Eno suggests that artists can be divided into either farmers or cowboys. Then Dave Hickey gave a different spin on the same idea, classifying people as either farmers or pirates.
Austin challenged the idea that we can define people by those categories:
This got me wondering, as I often do, about nouns and verbs. Maybe it isn’t a question of being a farmer or a pirate, but whether you’re farming or pirating. Maybe they’re two different artistic modes that we operate under.
This made me think of a corollary in software engineering. Projects can be classified as either greenfield or brownfield. Often, software engineers have a strong preference one way or the other, and shape their careers accordingly. But that is not who they are.
It is interesting to think about how much our preferences define us. We attach labels to ourselves, and to others, that we call our “identity.” I’m leery of reducing anyone to a single part of their life. People are complex beings. We need to acknowledge that in ourselves and recognize that in others.
My wife made up a color matching game which our 3yo loved.
Our 22mo girl started playing and put things wherever. My wife said, “Good job! You’re doing it.”
The 3yo got right up in her face. “No. You are not doing well.”
Then she got mad and trashed the game.
😂
What a fun game! I love that a block by Gobert won it. Go Jazz! 🏀
📖 Shadow Puppets
By Orson Scott Card
📖 🎧 Steal Like an Artist Audio Trilogy
By Austin Kleon