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NBA Philadelphia

History Will Be Very Kind to Sam Hinkie

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To become good in the NBA, you almost always have to become bad.

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Cooking Fatherhood Learning Life

Slow Cooker Sundays

There’s something special about a Sunday dinner.

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Life

Thoughts on Failing

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It doesn’t take much to feel like a failure.

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Greatness Hip-Hop In Appreciation of Rap

In Appreciation Of: Sticky Fingaz

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“Who had the last verse you was always waitin’ for?”

Every time you heard an Onyx song, you knew it was coming.

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Writing

My Very Best Writing from 2016

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2016 was my first full year with my own site.

Not coincidentally it is also the first year since 2012 in which I did not publish a book.

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Books

Every Book I Read In 2016

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When I graduated from business school in 2010, I finally had a bit more free time and I decided that I would dedicate much of that time to reading and writing.

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Books

The Best Books I Read in 2016

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Every month, I send out a monthly reading newsletter and every December, I send out my best of the year list. Here are my selections:

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Hip-Hop Rap

Classic Non-Album Cuts: Scarface

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In my opinion, he’s the greatest MC from the south and, honestly, it’s not even close.

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In Appreciation of

In Appreciation of: “Seasons in the Sun”

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I first heard it in my elementary school music class.

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Fatherhood

Cooking with Your Child – The Gift and the Curse

Young mother and son in kitchen making cookies.
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“Daddy, can I help?”