Mike "Bagel"
@bagelpuc
Small Business Counselor, Podcaster, Writer, Connector
Mike "Bagel"
liveyourvalues.co
At its core, finding meaning in anything is simply recognising what’s most important to you and valuing it at that level. Meaning can be as simple as loving what you do every day or as complex as striving to leave the world a little better than you found it after you depart this world. The more meaningful your work is to you, the more likely you ar
... See morePostanly Weekly • Arthur Schopenhauer on Meaning, Wisdom and Living Well
A great life is mostly predicated on a few factors, argues Robin Sharma in his book, The 5 AM Club . He says the determinant of a magnificent life is having “a sense that you’re growing and capitalizing on your human potential; effortful work that draws out your finest productivity and is profitable for humanity; weighty connections with positive p
... See morePostanly Weekly • The Determinants of a Great Life Have Remained the Same for Centuries
Donald Trump is an uncannily accommodating vessel for projection, good and ill. It occurs as something of a cosmic joke that his last name is “Trump,” which is the Joker in a deck of cards, a wild card, the card that can be any card. So it is that Donald Trump can be any character, whatever people hold him to be. This serves both to elevate him and... See more
Charles Eisenstein • Shades of Many Colors
Work will feel different when you shift from seeking enoughness through work to a place where you already believe that you are enough. You start to choose work that you genuinely enjoy. I’m finding joy in my work today that I’ve never known before.
David Spinks • How to Downshift
So, is Jacobs right to say that baseball was better when we knew less about it? And here we are at the crux of the issue from another angle: how is the goodness of the game measured and accounted for? Or, more to the point, can the goodness of the game be measured? If not, then in what would the goodness of the game consist? And, an equally interes... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Limits of Optimization
Baseball offers perhaps the world’s richest data set: pretty much everything that has happened on a major-league playing field in the past 140 years has been dutifully and accurately recorded, and hundreds of players play in the big leagues every year.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Every sports story is a labor story, and this one dates back to 1965 when the fledgling Major League Baseball Players Association began to strengthen in response to the owners’ threat that they would cancel the players’ pension plan. Since then the sport has seen nine work stoppages, some $270 million in owner fines after the players proved the tea... See more
MLB’s Uniform Fiasco Is About More Than See-Through Pants
“A lot of writing consists of waiting around for the aquarium to settle so you can see the fish. Walking around muttering seems to hasten the process. Taking public transportation nowhere helps. Looking out the bus window lets the back of your mind move forward. Don’t listen to anything but natural sound. Don’t look at anything you have to turn on.... See more