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I listened to this book on the way up to Scott & Stacey’s wedding.

It was pretty good.

The 15 year old stock trader who made half a million in the market was a pretty funny and enlightening story.

Jeff McGinnis was a freshman during Derrick Phelps’s Senior year.

Derrick Phelps was a “pass-first, shoot-second” player, and Duke’s Grant Hill knew that.

Hill would give Phelps some space to shoot and said: “Come on, Derrick, shoot the ball”

After McGinnis rotated in, Hill gave the Freshman even more room (because he knew the inexperienced point guard wouldn’t know what to do with it).

Hill was right. McGinnis couldn’t hit the shots he took.

When Phelps came in for McGinnis, McGinnis said to (his opponent) Hill.

“Keep riding Derrick.”

What a dick move!

Dean is the MAN!

The chapter “I May Be Wrong, but” is exactly what I think religion should be all about.

Less about fear and more about love and faith.

A reminder: art is not a popularity contest.

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This book is fantastic!

It puts forward dynamics of systems that I could sense, but never articulate

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Meh.

I liked Richard Clarke’s book better.

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Terrific book!

I like it when a book uses points-of-reference that I immediately recognize in order to draw conclusions.

Mike Martz, Moneyball, The Tipping Point, and Linux are all things that I know something about; So, it doesn’t take a lot of reorienting myself to understand the author’s argument.

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The St. Nick story was excellent.

I read this as soon as I started working at my new position at Red Hat. (I was hired to be a phone tech, but I prefer programming)