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You wander through the world and everything is new and exciting. Your mind is looking at so many new things for the very first time and starts making connections among them.,It was exactly a century after the Tulip Bubble that Pope got to experience and document the South Sea Bubble, the first speculative mania in the history of stock markets. How it inflated was eerily similar to the modern-day manias we have become accustomed to. A new technology, a new innovation, or a pie-in-the-sky vision, never fails to inflate a new bubble.,He warned closer friends and family that there was a possibility that he would end up like his wife. Most people blew off his fears, rationalizing that they were coming from a distraught and grieving man.,Contrary to speculation, The Atlantic did not come up with the idea for this story and “assign” it to me. The idea for the article was mine. I pitched it to The Atlantic in a two-page pitch and it was approved and contracted in November of 2019.,After explaining this competition, my girlfriend asked me if I’d be willing to compete. And it’s not that she’s heavy, I just looked down at my skinny quads and know I’ll never be able to compete with these hulks.,With this explanation, you could argue that creating an AOP-based library to add logging logic to existing OOP-based business logic (for example) is relatively easy. All you’d have to do is replace the existing matching methods of the target object, with a custom function that would add the aspect’s logic at the right time and then call the original method.,Many consider Alexander Pope to be one of the greatest poets of all time. But he also happened to grow up in the early 1700s during the earliest period of financial speculation. The Dutch had floated the first stock market, and brokers — known in those days as “stockjobbers” — handled transactions of many popular historical figures such as Richard Cantillon and Isaac Newton.,Wemple: Wael El-Hindi is described as a “former World №8.” According to SquashInfo.com [squashinfo.com], he is precisely that. Barrett, though, also discusses Imran Khan [buffalotands.org], “a 39-year-old former top-10 pro-squash player.” SquashInfo.com places his highest world ranking at 240 [squashinfo.com]. This would appear to be an error, unless there’s some other ranking that distinguishes him as a top-10 talent.,Wemple: Another quote from the same scene: “Did you see that kid Mohammed? … No, the other Mohammed. His academics aren’t strong, but his squash is unbelievable.” That’s from a parent in the bleachers at the tournament. First off, no one with the name Mohammed was registered to compete in that tournament [clublocker.com]. And second, what’s supposed to be the point of this?,I live in Fairfield County. I saw this story unfolding all around me and I wanted to capture what I saw. Parents were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and upending their lives in pursuit of a recruited-athlete pathway that seemed increasingly chaotic and elusive. Kids were giving up school and friends and participation in music and the arts in order to strap themselves into rowing machines or practice drop shots for hours on end. Worse, the extreme expenditure on niche sports in communities like Greenwich and Darien appeared to be exacerbating inequities in athletics and leading to decreased opportunities for kids from poor and middle-class backgrounds.,In 1719, the desire to profit from the South Sea Company’s government-sponsored trade monopoly with Spanish and South American colonies produced a mania. In exchange for these trading powers, the company agreed to privatize the British government’s national debt, converting it into company shares, along with a 6% annual interest payment.,He warned closer friends and family that there was a possibility that he would end up like his wife. Most people blew off his fears, rationalizing that they were coming from a distraught and grieving man.,After explaining this competition, my girlfriend asked me if I’d be willing to compete. And it’s not that she’s heavy, I just looked down at my skinny quads and know I’ll never be able to compete with these hulks.,My response: I may have misheard the name. Ahmad Haq, the №3-ranked U15 junior, was registered to compete in the Chelsea Piers tournament. Another top-ranked U13 player named Ahmed Rashed could have been “the other Ahmad” — not the other Mohammed.,The parents on the Chelsea Piers squash bleachers had kids who played multiple sports; I overheard talk of tennis, crew and Chelsea Piers versus Greenwich Aquatics water polo. I included this quote to try to capture the flavor of dialogue on the junior-squash sidelines and the intensely competitive culture that permeates all of these sports.