I don't imagine this comes off as much of a brag, but I now feel like I know how to watch college basketball. Not very effectively, to be clear, at least where "effective" means "knowing stuff that informs a successful bracket" or even really "knowing what is going on." But this is what I mean: I have left all that behind, or just realized that it is not really mine to know. I watch college basketball in the same way I listen to music: later at night, un-sober and un-serious, not quite idly but not really with anything like rigor. To do anything else would seem not just to be courting disappointment, but to be missing the point.
