The Quinn Theory

There are people who believe life isn’t about winning and losing.

Those people usually lose.

Years ago, two best friends had a crush on the same girl. Her name, for purposes of this completely hypothetical story, was Quinn.

Quinn was beautiful, funny and cool enough to make otherwise normal young men behave like they were auditioning for a role in her life.

Two men entered.

One would win, and the other would do what he usually did. Lose.

My opponent approached Quinn with tremendous enthusiasm. He texted. He planned. He analyzed. He probably replayed conversations afterward looking for hidden meaning. The man brought preparation, persistence and the emotional equivalent of a PowerPoint deck.

I mostly made her laugh.

This was unfortunate for him.

Because while he was still developing his strategy, the election had already been called.

Quinn liked me.

He knew it. I knew it. Everyone knew it. The furniture in the room probably knew it.

There are losses that require lengthy explanations, and then there are losses where everybody simply avoids looking at the person who lost.

This was the second kind.

To his credit, he kept trying.

That was also very on-brand.

There is something almost inspirational about a man repeatedly walking toward a closed door because he remains convinced that perhaps the door has misunderstood the situation.

But Quinn wasn’t really the important part.

The important part was the pattern.

Quinn was simply an early data point.

Years pass. I still win. He still loses. Different circumstances, but the same scoreboard.

At a certain point, you have to stop calling it coincidence.

Some people get the girl. Some people get the opportunity. Some people get the deal. Some people get the last word. And some people get a lifetime subscription to watching somebody else get all four.

You almost start to feel bad.

Almost.

Anyway, none of this has anything whatsoever to do with pizza.

Which brings us naturally to Rupiani’s Deep Dish Pizza.

Buttery crust. Wisconsin cheese. Signature tomato sauce. An unreasonable amount of confidence.

Because whether we’re talking about Quinn, business, life, or deep dish pizza, the philosophy remains remarkably consistent:

We like winning.

And somewhere out there, somebody else is probably eating the competition's deep dish pizza, believing it's actually good.

Some things never change.