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This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures. Over 119,000 subscribers No thanksncG1vNJzZmifkae%2Fqr%2FOp6KeoZyhvLN60q6ZrKyRmLhvr86mZqxnl5a%2Fs7XSqKVmo5Weua270axkqaeUmK60wA%3D%3D

In many ways, the incredible rise, subsequent freshman season, and eventual transfer of Garwey Dual could serve as a perfect case study of the current landscape of college basketball in 2024. Dual went from overnight sensation and elite recruit to the transfer portal after a freshman season that fell short of expectations in Providence. The 6’5 point guard, originally from Houston, had one of the most unusual recruitments of any player in the class of 2023 — skyrocketing from a player that averaged just six points per game coming off of the bench for a public high school team in Indiana as a junior, to being ranked among the top 50 players in his class by that spring.

This article is part of Fintech Leaders, a newsletter with almost 60,000 dreamers, entrepreneurs, investors, and students of financial services. I invite you to share and sign up! And, if you enjoy this conversation, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows so more people can learn from it. Share I sit down with Gary Hoberman, CEO & Founder of Unqork, a revolutionary technology company that has pioneered a Codeless as a Service (CaaS) platform to help eliminate legacy code for enterprises.

I’m a bit of a Kildall fanboy. As such, here is my Christmas gift to you: an interview that PC Mag did with Gary in the summer of 1982. As always, it is very interesting. Enjoy and Merry Christmas. P.S. Fellow Substacker Al from released an in-depth documentary about Kildall on YouTube. He released a longer version without ads on his Substack for his paid subscribers. It is well worth the watch if you want to find out more about Kildall.

Thanks, for this thoughtful note. On this important point, about affordability: >>But as much as I despise these anachronistic noisemakers I often wonder what it would cost the owner to replace them. Certainly without any financial assistance the cost would be prohibitive; if they were banned, he would be forced to shut down his business. ... Same goes for the state or the municipality - outlawing the noisy dinosaurs would create a financial challenge that lawn care companies - as well as many homeowners - are ill equipped to even consider.

This is a one-time post to pull together resources, links, and info on a topic I’ve followed for a long time. Let’s start with a brief quiz. Check out the two photos below. One, of chronic congestion on freeways in my Southern California homeland. The other, of familiar modern “gardening” practices. Which do you think is overall a greater contributor to certain kinds of air pollution, carcinogenic emissions, lung disease, and hearing loss, in our nation’s most populous state?

On Monday, April 11 The Nine Club released an interview with Mark Oblow. Oblow’s worked in skateboarding for decades and wears a lot of rings. He started Prime Skateboards, Vita Shoes, helped establish Gravis’ and Quiksilver’s skateboarding programs, does something with RVCA, and details all his accomplishments over almost three hours of interview time where the hosts barely ask a question or interject. I want to talk about that bolded section above before getting into a much larger and more important discussion.

When Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer said Oct. 12 on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the Biden administration was “not contemplating” putting troops on the ground in Gaza to rescue the dozen or so American hostages captured during Hamas’ Oct. 7 raid into southern Israel, Joint Special Operations Command was already planning a rescue operation. JSOC (pronounced “jay-sock”), which controls special mission units like the Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta (commonly known as Delta Force) and the Navy’s SEAL Team 6, and which conducts the United States’ most sensitive national-level special operations missions, had been informed by the Defense Department that the administration wanted to see “something” in terms of a plan of action to rescue the American citizens, a special operations official told The High Side.