Sam Hinkie will be telling future Stanford students to trust the educational process.
The former Philadelphia 76ers general manager and President of Basketball Operations has a reputation for verbosity, so to no surprise, after joining twitter, he tweeted out a ten-part, protracted tweet about his career shift to teaching at Stanford.
Hinkie’s first tweet included some irrelevant information. Do we need to know where the Starbucks he’s sending the message is from or its proximity to his house?
1 | Writing this from a Starbucks in Palo Alto, CA. It’s 5 blocks from our house. My wife and I brought our boys here for this next chapter.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
The 38-year-old mused about his time off, expressing if he was younger he would have backpacked around the world and snowboarder more.
2 | The more I thought about it, the more obvious it became that a sort of gap year here was right. If we were younger, maybe we’d have…
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
3 | …backpacked around the world—I surely would have snowboarded more.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
He followed that up with some pompous parenting bullshit.
4 | But we’re parents, so we’re here planting seeds for tomorrow. Especially their tomorrow.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
Hinkie discussed his learning process and how rare it was he could take his time to learn things opposed to quickly rushing to learn. *starts falling asleep*
5 | I’ve always been focused on learning as fast as I can & figuring out how I can do things better. So a period like this felt super rare.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
*checks phone after waking up* oh, he’s still tweeting?
6 | And there may be no better place on the planet to learn right now than right here.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
Hinkie goes on to plug Stanford without namedropping them yet.
7 | My hope is to learn even more about how what’s happening here will impact the basketball world—it’s impacting most everything else.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
Finally, Hinkmeister reveals he’ll teach at Stanford while continuing his thirst for knowledge. He’s essentially become that annoying YouTube ad guy Tai Lopez.
8 | While I wait to see what’s next for us, I’ll teach a little (at Stanford), keep talking to the long list of people I can learn from,…
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
Wrap it up, Hinkie… we don’t have all day.
The analytics wizard still wants to go tubular and do some more snowboarding. I’d love to see that.
9 | …watch tons of basketball, and soak up all that I can. Oh, and snowboard. For sure snowboard.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
Finally, summing up his essay on knowledge, Hinkie wants viewers to send him things to read. Here’s a resource I suggest he consider tackling.
10| In the meantime, if you read anything good, send it my way.
— Sam Hinkie (@samhinkie) September 14, 2016
Hinkie is still the tanking GOAT for ripping apart the 76ers in the name of the process and rebuilding them from scratch. He won’t reap the rewards of his rebuild, but Hinkie will forever be ingrained alongside any future success of the 76ers.
With all that said, Sam, you could have written this in a couple tweets at most. I know you have a hard-on for words (hello 13-page essay) but it is possible to self-edit. Here’s another thing to read, on the house, since you’re taking suggestions.
