Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

I Just Turned 45: Here Are 20 Things I Learned In The Last Year

[If you are interested, here is 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, And 35.]

1. Entrepreneurship is awesome. And lonely. And empowering. And kinda sucks.

2. It sucks mindlessly filling up vending machines every day.

3. The only women who love you unconditionally are your mom and your daughter.

4. I love traveling and talking about cotton,

5. Sales sucks if under pressure to produce.

6. Keurig is not coffee.

7. Phil Wickham is amazing in concert.

8. The 4th of July will forever be Memorial Day in Kerrville.

9. Parents who make their kids start from zero are trash.

10. The COVID shot was a mistake.

11. Vail, CO, was superb. But why are the most walkable places planned ski towns?

12. A good space is a quiet space.

13. Life is too fast.

14. Ellie Holcomb is one of the best.

15. Having three dates to the daddy-daughter dance is 🥰.

16. The quickness of life.

17. I suck at this internet thing.

18. I don’t know what to feel about work anymore.

19. I – literally – want simply a peaceful home – and for my children to know Christ – that’s it.

20. That women can be f*cking brutal.

Making Hundreds Of Decisions

Poker (and chess?) might be some of the best ways to practice making lots of decisions in a short amount of time.

You have to assess, decide, and then execute on your conviction – with significant potential losses – and under a time constraint.

Like everything else, it’s like a muscle that gets stronger the more it is used…

Some crazy hands come out:

Every poker hand requires making at least one decision (to fold your starting cards or play them), and some hands can require up to twenty decisions. During a poker game in a casino card room, players get in about thirty hands per hour. An average hand of poker takes about two minutes to complete, including the time it takes for the dealer to gather, shuffle, and deal the cards between hands. Poker sessions typically last for several hours, with many decisions in every hand. This means a poker player makes hundreds of decisions per session, all of which take place at breakneck speed.

-Annie Duke, Thinking In Bets (Amazon)

Sterling Terrell