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Five months in to my term on City Council, I haven’t written yet about the experience.
It’s been hard for me to suss out exactly what I can or should write publicly while conforming with laws, regulations, and guidelines. If I wrote about a topic under Council’s purview, it could possibly be interpreted as the opinion of Council as a whole or an endorsement of a particular position. I want to conform with guidelines as well as avoid putting Council and the City in a compromising position.
I had the privilege of working as a basketball scout and consultant for college and NBA teams from early 2012 until fairly recently.
Publicly, I wrote about basketball scouting for a website I founded called HoopsThink.com, and published a free basketball scouting guide called The Basketball Scout’s Cheat Sheet: The 4 Pillars of Effective Scouting.
If you’re reading this post, there’s a good chance you met me through that work.
I had a great time with it. I liked being able to make an impact for teams, and help aspiring scouts and players in the process.
An important part of the Schultz backlash this week comes from many people believing it’s better to judge a country by how well it takes care of its citizens’ basic needs than by whether it enables a minuscule fraction of white men to become billionaires.
That’s not to say providing for all citizens and having billionaires are necessarily mutually exclusive. But in any good process you want to have defined goals and standards that you evaluate yourself by, helping guide you in making decisions.
