Good morning from Milano. What’s on my mind this morning is what it means to be a newbie. I actually looked it up this morning. Rookie. Novice. Amateur. Amateur has more of the tone of inept or incompetent, but novice is about being new to a certain task or situation. It’s probably pretty clear that this is on my mind because last night was the first Rocket Fuel group call.  It was the very first time in my whole life that I have been the person that gathered people for anything beyond a basic dinner party. I will get to it, but before I do so I want to talk about something that happened on the pickleball court.

I took the train up again to play pickleball with this new group of people and my new bestie Carlo picked me up, and he showed up with his wife, Valeria. Well, it turns out that Valeria was a newbie at Pickleball. One of the great things about Pickleball is there’s this ethos of being very welcoming and helpful to new people because the bottom line is once you’ve played one game, you really do get the hang of it quite quickly.

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