Non-Poker

Five Things I’ve Learned Living Outside the U.S.

Aside from a few trips back to the U.S., I’ve been in Playa del Carmen, Mexico for seven months now. The experience of living outside of the U.S. has been pretty surreal. I’ve had multiple people agree with me that living in Playa can at times feel like a dream. The opening line of Bohemian [...]

Life, Mexico, Non-Poker, Things It Took Me A While To Learn

Steve Jobs Documentary

My Spanish tutor alerted me to a worthwhile one-hour documentary created by PBS on the life of Steve Jobs. I found it pretty interesting on a few levels and shared some notes below.

Watch Steve Jobs: One Last Thing on PBS. See more from Steve Jobs – One Last Thing.

So Steve Jobs was kind of [...]

Non-Poker

Dennis Rodman Was Really Good at Basketball

I stumbled upon an awesome sports data analysis site yesterday called Skeptical Sports. Stuff like this is what I love about the Internet. Basically, some guy(s) took the time to compile a bunch of data showing why Dennis Rodman was the bomb.

If you grew up rooting for the Bulls in the 90s, you undoubtedly [...]

Games, Non-Poker, Sports

Summary of Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness, Seneca on Anger (Part 3)

A couple months ago, I started a six part blog series aimed at summarizing a fascinating film I’d recommend to anyone, Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness. The film is broken down into six parts each of them honing in on one philosopher’s thoughts that might lead us to being happier.
Part one focused on Socrates [...]

Non-Poker, Philosophy