Whether you disagree with Sam Hinkie or kind of agree with him — nobody fully agrees with him — the former 76ers GM is prime joke fodder. "The Process" will never not be a punchline, even though it snuck in a backdoor cover in the form of Ben Simmons and ohhhh nooo, Hinkie is tweeting. Yes, he is tweeting in the most Sam Hinkie way possible.
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
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This is his resignition manifesto in tweet form; it's got endless exposition and a not-insignificant amount of pathos, albeit pathos that may have been generated by some sort of cutting-edge, emotion-replicating script. Hinkie seems like a real person — but is he? There's no real way to know.
His first session was a 10-tweet series that shared his plans to teach at Stanford, spend time with his kids and snowboard, with some other stuff mixed in. He's just a chill dude, enjoying his "gap year," as anyone would.
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
Were there jokes? Of course there were jokes.
Writing this from the Starbucks in Palo Alto 500 yards to the Southeast of my new 8000 sq ft home where I now reside with my wife, 38, and t
— ☕netw3rk (@netw3rk) September 14, 2016
Fact that he doesn't follow anyone & thus views the medium as a place solely to talk without any intention to listen or learn, does add up.
— Farmer Jones (@thefarmerjones) September 14, 2016
— Seth Rosenthal (@seth_rosenthal) September 14, 2016
sam hinkie's twitter plan
— alex (@steven_lebron) September 14, 2016
year 1: follow eggs only
year 2: buy followers
year 3: RT meme accounts
year 4: hacked by jerry colangelo
Congratulations to Sam Hinkie, the most Palo Alto person in the world.
— Eric Freeman (@freemaneric) September 14, 2016
I bet Sam Hinkie went through a bunch of bad drafts before publishing his first tweet
— Mina Kimes (@minakimes) September 14, 2016
Regardless, it's nice to have him back — until he starts several more accounts, solely to send the same tweets with minor variations. One of them is guaranteed to pan out.