Product Manager, UX/UI Designer. I have a passion for giving back and building communities. As well as tech, media, start ups, investing and sports.
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Devin retweeted
Mike Tirico joins Cousins alongside Reggie Miller, Jamal Crawford and Carmelo Anthony as he gives his HONEST take on each of them back in their playing days. That Melo part got the entire place hyped😅🔥
Every single word of this, can’t be overstated enough. This brotha has to find a go to move.
Gilbert Arenas says it's essential that the Spurs keep De'Aaron Fox because of how he is able to open up the floor for everyone. Because watching Victor Wembanyama on offense is hard since he doesn't have a go-to move to get a basket. At 7'6", he is trying to play like he is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Furthermore, those other guards like Dylan Harper and Stephon Castle aren't going to get him the ball because they are 1-on-1 isolation players
Treason
WSJ: “Some U.S. officials say that Musk acted unilaterally and that Trump didn’t specifically order any retribution against Ukraine. But a person familiar with the situation said Musk talked to multiple senior administration officials, including with Trump, before imposing the new speed cap, which Ukrainian officials said had allowed Russian missiles to evade their defenses.”
Devin retweeted
Well, shocker.. PSG / Barcelona has been box office.
Now if we can get it again, when it truly matters - Knockout Semi 2 legs. #ChampionsLeague
Vitinha is an assassin.
Devin retweeted
“GIVE ME THE FU*KING BALL.”
— ANGEL REESE. 🔥🗣️
(h/t @ShowCaseShabazz)
Devin retweeted
The phrase "we can't afford it" should be banned in households if you want to create a healthy money culture
Players need a proper union
WOW! 🤯 Shannon Sharpe Exposes the Playbook: How the NCAA and Elite Coaches Are Allegedly Maneuvering Behind the Scenes of NIL 💰
"You see how they did it, OCHO? What'd they do? They get the NILs, get the NIL straight, the players can only make X, now we're going to expand it by 12. And everybody got a raise. Coach Saban kept getting to become the highest paid. It was not a problem. This is why I don't want no 2014, 'cause 2014, Alabama lose three games and still get in the playoffs. You see how they did it, OCHO?"
"Everybody got somebody talking for their behalf, except the players. They got Coach Saban politicking for the coaches, for the colleges, and you have these big execs talking about these TV deals. Poor player college players, they, you know, ain't got nobody talking under them. And that, that hurts them. That hurts the product. So who's that representative? Because we know the networks are going to speak for the networks' execs, the presidents, and they're going to speak for the networks. We know coaches are going to speak for former coaches."
IsoJoe: "That's why the college kids need a union, bro. They need to have somebody to hear their gripes and groans.
They ain't letting that happen. You got Coach Saban out there every Sunday. He is the gold standard. Whatever he says, that's what the NCAA and that's what Congress is going to listen to. Congress didn't, when coaches' salaries keep going up, they never intervened. When the NCAA keep making money, guess what, they keep expanding.”
“They expanded the basketball March Madness. They expanded the college football playoffs. Congress did not intervene."
"Every time, uh, Dabo got a raise, Coach Saban got a raise, he became the highest paid. Kirby Smart got a raise, Coach Saban got a raise, became the highest paid.
“Everybody get a raise. Coach Saban kept getting to become the highest paid. It was not a problem. But the problem is the players making too much money, and you know, they're living in these neighborhoods, on golf courses. The players, they driving them big boy foreign whips now, yeah."
"You don't, you don't screw them for 70 years. Let them a little get back, let them get some reparations. Man, I'm still trying to get some back pay here. Since when did Congress give a damn about NCAA football? It's been big business though, uncle. It is. But the big business is that the college and the coaches was making all the money. The players weren't making no money. The players was happy to get a little car. They get a challenger, they get a pickup truck, or they get a charger, uh, TRX or rat scat pack. That were cool."
"And then all of a sudden, it's like, hold on. That joke going to make 3 million, 4 million, 5 million, 6 million? Yeah. Whatever the market will bear. Coaches jump around and don't, hey, with no, when their contract ain't even up. Brian Kelly left Cincinnati, went to Notre Dame. Left Notre Dame, go to LSU. Last I check, I don't think, uh, Lane Kiffin, I don't think his contract was up, OCHO. He jumped."
Devin retweeted
Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky explains why autonomy is a fallacy in modern corporate America:
Chesky is blunt about it: "I don't believe in autonomy."
His target is the widely held belief that employees want to be fully autonomous, which he considers a misconception:
"I don't think employees want autonomy. I think that is a giant misnomer. Do they want to have some element of autonomy of how they do their jobs? Yes. But I do not think that the vast majority of people are actually happier in a truly autonomous environment."
To show why, he walks through a scenario. Picture yourself with total autonomy: your own budget, your own team, freedom to do whatever you want. You still can't act alone:
"You need collaboration. You need legal to sign off and everything, and you need the finance team to sign off in your budget. So you need to actually go through the planning process. You need to integrate with the technology."
That's where the idea falls apart. Autonomy inside a company is close to impossible by definition:
"In other words, this notion of autonomy is such a fallacy in modern corporate America because companies are organizations. Organization quite literally means we organize people to work together to do something. Rowing in a boat."
So what are people actually asking for when they say they want autonomy? Chesky believes the real issue is empowerment:
"What people don't want is a lack of empowerment and they want to be able to make decisions on their own. But I don't think people for the most part want to be disintegrated. They want to be integrated."
He also argues that what people say doesn't match how they behave:
"I challenge the notion that people want autonomy. I think they say they want autonomy. I think their actions don't say the same thing."
The proof, in his view, is in retention and engagement. He finds both are often highest when people "really love the people they're working with and they're collaborating and working well."
@bchesky does recognize that some people truly don't fit inside an organization, and he counts himself among them:
"Now there are some people like me that probably shouldn't be an organization. We should start companies. And I also think if you don't want to work in an organization, start a company. We could use more entrepreneurs in the world as well."
For everyone else, independence comes gradually. He describes how he steps back from new hires over time:
"Let's say somebody's new, I'll meet with them weekly at some point, maybe by the 20th week. We don't need to meet every week now we can go every other week, but it's only after three or four in a row where yeah, this seems like a slightly unnecessary frequency."
In his words: "Eventually one day you check in less and less frequently."