God, there it is. The all-time ruckus bringer of the high seas.
Really just delivers every time
You're impulsive but also always 3 steps behind; you have the impatience of a child but also a child's stubbornness, so you hold onto the coach an offseason too long, because you are Actually Doing A Great Job. Everyone hates you. A quarterback owns your franchise now & he doesn't even like it here.
A fuck-up rich kid who gets old, withered, bald, a much younger second wife, in and out of financial scams and then buys a pro franchise, because if you are rich enough your midlife crisis can be even grander than a convertible, and anyway you're a *champion*, you are a winner and a beloved boy.
"Yes YES" is the bit that really gets to me. The eureka moment. The possibility of escape. Yes, yes, that's exactly what I'll do.
I wrote about the rough time that Ding Liren has had since winning the World Chess Championship, which was an excuse to write about the rigors of elite competition, social media and AI, and the human condition. hugemantis.medium.com/ding-liren-i...
There were signs that something might be troubling Ding Liren before he had even won the World Chess Championship. At a press conference…
Man, these rule
He does not have one single dollar that is truly his and seems intensely haunted by that. Every word and frantically negotiated deal and vindictive act of self-sabotage is the work of a paranoid man, flailing against the humiliating realities of his life.