The Better Letter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

If he had a pilot’s license, we’d suspend that. Subscribe now Share The Better Letter Get more from Bob Seawright in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app TRIGGER WARNING: I’m going to do some sports math nerding-out this week. Since 2000, it’s 17 of 23 (74 percent).

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: That was a super hot theme in the year 1999 and 2000. RITHOLTZ: — and having the guy — the attendant asked me, do you have an even number or odd number license plate? RITHOLTZ: My answer was, I’m 11, I don’t have a license plate, just give the kid a gallon of gas. KLINSKY: Right. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. And so I remember Quincy told me, if you think you’re in the music business, and you don’t own music rights, publishing rights, licensing rights. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 22, 2023

SUNSTEIN: So back in 2000, I agreed to write a book for Princeton University Press called “Republic.com.” And then people will feel licensed to say what they had shut up about. It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy.

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