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\n\nseanmcdevitt.net","summary":"","url":"https://seanmcdevitt.net/2026/04/08/greg-mckeown-dieter-rams-the.html","date_published":"2026-04-08T15:37:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Sean McDevitt","url":"http://seanmcdevitt.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F09%2F8869.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"SeanMcDevitt"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-08 15:37","date_timestamp":1775662624,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87847416","content_html":"Dieter Rams, the legendary designer at Braun, worked from a simple belief: almost everything is noise. Very few things are essential.
\nHis job was to filter through that noise until he reached the essence.
\nEarly in his career, he was asked to help design a record player. At the time, the norm was to encase it in a heavy wooden lid or build it into a piece of living room furniture.
\nInstead, Rams and his team removed the clutter. They designed a player with a clear plastic cover and nothing more.
\nIt was so different that people worried it might bankrupt the company.
\nBut it didn’t.
\nOver...
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I stayed up to watch Michigan beat UConn. It was a good game. I kinda hoped Michigan would blow the doors off, but they didn’t and so it was kind of close. I wish Illinois on Saturday had shot the ball better to get to the national championship game, but that’s what happens in a single elimination tournament.
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\n\nseanmcdevitt.net","summary":"","url":"https://seanmcdevitt.net/2026/04/04/champaign-showers-critics-act-like.html","date_published":"2026-04-04T12:58:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Sean McDevitt","url":"http://seanmcdevitt.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F09%2F8869.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"SeanMcDevitt"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-04 12:58","date_timestamp":1775307480,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87766784","content_html":"\n","summary":"","url":"https://seanmcdevitt.net/2026/04/03/091400.html","date_published":"2026-04-03T14:14:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Sean McDevitt","url":"http://seanmcdevitt.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F09%2F8869.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"SeanMcDevitt"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-03 14:14","date_timestamp":1775225640,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87468362","content_html":"\nCritics act like bringing global talent to central Illinois is some bizarre science experiment. But if you walk around campus, or sit in a coffee shop in downtown Champaign, or look at the names of the people who have walked these halls before, you realize that this is exactly what Illinois has always done. The university has spent a century acting as a beacon for international talent, bringing the best and brightest to the prairie to build the future. Why shouldn’t our basketball program do the exact same thing?
\nChampaign-Urbana has always been a place for people from all over the...
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\nseanmcdevitt.net","summary":"","url":"https://seanmcdevitt.net/2026/04/02/isaac-trotter-the-illini-have.html","date_published":"2026-04-02T14:45:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Sean McDevitt","url":"http://seanmcdevitt.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F09%2F8869.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"SeanMcDevitt"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-02 14:45","date_timestamp":1775141129,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"87385324","content_html":"The Illini have so many different ways it can generate paint touches because of its immaculate spacing and sharp matchup-hunting, including [Andrej] Stojakovic drives, [Keaton] Wagler in pick-and-rolls, [Kylan] Boswell attacking seams, [David] Mirkovic backdowns, Tomi Ivisic post-ups or Zvonimir Ivisic lobs. If UConn can’t defend the paint much better, it’s in scalding-hot water because Illinois isn’t making many mistakes these days. Illinois does not foul. Illinois does not turn it over, which breathed life into UConn’s rally against Duke. Illinois also offensive rebounds at an elite...
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“The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” — Mark Twain
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\nPerhaps it pays to practice this in advance. When considering any given moment, is there a glimmer of good worth focusing on, even making a comment about?
\nOur narrative of reality often becomes our reality.
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Things worked out as ideal as possible for Illinois in the tournament this year. As nice as it would’ve felt initially to be in the Midwest region, the path the team ended up with was the most ideal and honestly may have been a blessing in disguise as the squad seem to play better further from home in road...
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\nAnd that team is Illinois.
\nThey were up by two at half time, but Illinois went on a 20-4 run to start the second half and then just kept Houston from...
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\nThe regular season is important as the foundation, but the only thing that matters is reaching the second...
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\n\nseanmcdevitt.net","summary":"","url":"https://seanmcdevitt.net/2026/03/25/will-leitch-on-this-illinois.html","date_published":"2026-03-25T16:59:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Sean McDevitt","url":"http://seanmcdevitt.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F09%2F8869.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"SeanMcDevitt"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-25 16:59","date_timestamp":1774457964,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86877729","content_html":"\nThis weekend, we will find out how, exactly, we will talk about this team, a team that we have obsessed over all season, for the rest of our lives. This team has the talent to be a Flying Illini team, the sort that makes your kids slobber all over a 45-year-old Jake Davis when they run into him in 25 years. This team also has the inconsistency–and the occasional struggles with embracing prosperity and opportunity–to be one that breaks our hearts. I’m pretty sure that, at its best, this is the most truly talented Illini team since the Dee-Deron-Luther...
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\nseanmcdevitt.net","summary":"","url":"https://seanmcdevitt.net/2026/03/24/dan-buffa-jj-wetherholt-will.html","date_published":"2026-03-24T18:52:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Sean McDevitt","url":"http://seanmcdevitt.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F09%2F8869.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"SeanMcDevitt"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-24 18:52","date_timestamp":1774378375,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"86788071","content_html":"J.J. Wetherholt will be on the opening day roster and most likely the lineup for the St. Louis Cardinals. While he is a John Mozeliak recruit, he stands as the first big prospect to launch in the revamped Chaim Bloom era. He will have a bevy of instructors at his disposal, unlike previous prospects like Jordan Walker and Nolan Gorman. Thankfully, his .386 OBP and high walk rate this spring already proves that he won’t chase sliders like Walker continues to do at the plate. His power and average will come in time, but he’s someone that baseball (not just St. Louis) is raving about. It’s an...
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For the last six weeks, I’ve been a bad fan.
\nI had decided somewhere in that fuzzy space between the Michigan State overtime loss and the early exit in the Big Ten Tournament that nothing this team did in the regular season would count unless it was validated by the NCAA Tournament. Specifically, by getting...
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\nFour years after No Way Home wiped everyone’s memory of Peter Parker, we find him doing the only thing that makes sense: being...
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\nFour years after No Way Home wiped everyone’s memory of Peter Parker, we find him doing the only thing that makes sense: being...
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\nYes, I’m going there. Here’s my case:
\nOne: this team has been built for March. The Illini have gone through enough adversity this season to know how to respond...
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\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://seanmcdevitt.net/2026/03/18/youve-likely-heard-it-all.html","date_published":"2026-03-18T13:19:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Sean McDevitt","url":"http://seanmcdevitt.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F09%2F8869.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"SeanMcDevitt"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-18 13:19","date_timestamp":1773839941,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}You don’t own shit that you put on social media platforms. You don’t own your follower counts, you don’t own your posts. Stop giving away all of your shit to data harvesters and advertisers for free in exchange for the illusion of importance that comes with likes and a follower count. Set up a website — and while you’re at it, start a mailing list, because email is basically the only means of reaching your contacts that can’t easily be taken away from you.
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