CxD #229: Poker life lessons🃏; Beer in Vietnam 🍺; Love bringing 🐶 back from the dead
1. Poker can teach you a lot about your character and how you react to bad luck, failure, fear, anxiety, as well as success and a stream of good luck. Do they go to your head? How do you assess your mistakes?
This 2.5 hour interview with one of the chattier legends of poker is refreshing in how self-reflective Daniel Negreanu is, and how honest.
You need confidence in poker, but arrogance will kill you. How do you walk that thin line?
This is an excellent story and now movie about a wild character who wanted to deliver beer to his friends serving in Vietnam and actually did it!
So one night at Doc Fiddler’s saloon in Inwood, when a patriotic bartender nicknamed the Colonel (played in the film by Bill Murray) blasted antiwar demonstrators and blurted out that someone ought to bring a beer to the local boys fighting over there, Donohue shocked his fellow patrons by volunteering.
At 26, he was a Marine Corps veteran (stationed in Japan and elsewhere) and working as a merchant seaman. He signed on with a ship transporting ammunition from New York to Vietnam and brought a duffel bag full of American beer and whatever information he could find on the whereabouts of a half-dozen soldier friends.
He essentially sneaked around the country to find his buddies’ units, navigating through restricted areas and military officialdom, and hitching rides on Jeeps and planes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/movies/the-greatest-beer-run-ever-chickie-donohue.htmlIf you need to cry ten million tears at the harshness and the immense love we find in life, watch this.
