Sublime

There’s a comic named Darryl Lenox who still performs, who is great. I remember he saw me perform…. I would try to mimic other comedians like Steven Wright or Seinfeld, like, ‘What’s the deal with Krazy Glue?’ and he said: ‘Dude, you’re the only person here who could talk about trying to get a hand job for the first time…. Talk about that!’”

For years, Scott Pioli, director of personnel for the Patriots, kept a photo on his desk of Dave Stachelski, a player the team had drafted in the 5th round, but who never made it through training camp.

David Brooks, “The Moral Bucket List.” Nir Eyal, Hooked. Anything by Kevin Kelly, most recently The Inevitable.

player, the more likely you will think him to be an NBA player. They had a hunch that people, when they formed judgments,

Years later he explained that he made the selection because 23 was close to half of 45, a number that his brother Larry had worn.

In any art form, people have been equally fascinated not only with the skill of a practitioner but also the lifestyle embodied by the artist. For me, great writers come to mind: Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway. People loved these authors not just for their books, but for the way in which

he didn’t assume that legacies are an indelible part of who we are.