Everyone knows productivity crashes faster than the stock market on the first Thursday and Friday of March Madness. In my opinion, however, this should be extended to Wednesday as well. Today, after all, is what is commonly known as fill-your-brackets-day.
Like many things in life, the best way to think about this is to not think about it at all. I’ve been in enough pools where the person who wins is the one person who hasn’t seen a basketball game since Jordan retired for the second time.
But then you get something funny. The people coming in right behind the winner are all those people who actually know what they’re doing. And then, brining up the rear in an almost embarrassing fashion, are all the other people who are just like the winner, except they’re not lucky.
Because yes, even though thinking is discouraged, you still have to do a little bit of it. I’d love to pick Cornell to go to the sweet sixteen, but, honestly, Missouri is really good. Really good. And having to choose between both is difficult. It’s choosing between your heart and your brain.
It’s like choosing between the girl-next-door and the super-effing-hot supermodel. Except this is a beauty contest. So maybe you choose Cornell in your non-money bracket, just for kicks and school spirit. But can you really afford not to pick Missouri in a money bracket?
Such are the questions that have been debated for centuries, since before Socrates himself even conceived of poison. Such are the thoughts that haunt everyone today, as soon as they stop caring about informal adjudicative rulemaking in admin law.
Such are the questions of life. Happy bracketing, everybody.
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