Blessed husband/father, Buckeye/Reds fanatic. Founder/CEO @ 1903 Group + Author of Screen Wars and State of the Screens.
Alexandria, VA
Joined April 2008
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I am incredibly grateful to everyone who supported my book launch last week. We hit best seller on Amazon and exceeded my wildest expectations.
None of this would be possible without you!!!
screenwarsbook.com/
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Really nice feature by Tom Rinaldi on Charley Steiner
In 2024, long-time @Dodgers announcer Charley Steiner had his broadcasting dream disrupted by a single word: cancer.
Tom Rinaldi tells the story of Steiner’s fight to return to the job he loves.
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With the demise of the RSN channel bundle monopoly business, those green local revenue wedges are shrinking fast.
Leagues hope national revenue can grow to make up the difference, just as one national bidder (WBD) has left the bidding.
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Why are offices empty during a boom? One reason is that our fastest-growing companies employ far fewer people per dollar of revenue.
OpenAI and Anthropic generate about 3× more revenue per employee than Apple or Meta. And even Big Tech employs fewer people per dollar than it used to. The result is robust business growth and modest headcount growth.
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A millionaire by 32.
A billionaire by 55.
Calls it a career at 96.
What a legend.
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Barry Melrose came across as every man because, before we knew him as an NHL coach, he was the everyman.
Outstanding article to read on Melrose from the January 8, 1986 Toronto Star.
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despite his obvious bias for OSU, this is another great friday read from @michaelbeach . Apparently the BIG10 is billing more $ than the SEC for less eyeballs. stateofthescreens.com/p/the-…
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the simplest way to be happy is to have a to-do list.
so many people are overly stressed about things that they have not done yet because they try to keep their to-do list in their working memory.
if you offload your working memory to a to-do list, you will reduce stress by over 50%. if you do not believe me, just try it in earnest.
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We tell young people in our society that end of the rainbow is retirement at 65.
We ought to tell them that "there is going to be this short but beautiful golden window from roughly age 3 to roughly age 12 where your kids are not only easy (comparatively to bottles & diapers), but are going to be these beautiful little creatures and it will pain your heart to be away from them for too long. So, prepare in your 20's, financially and career wise, to build that flexibility into that chapter of your life".
You don't get another shot at living the "golden window". And, for me, leaning hard into that golden window has made everything else in my life feel fairly insignificant in comparison. I have made plenty of mistakes as a father, but what I won't have is the regret of having been distracted and absent from these formative years. In some cases, that has required financial sacrifices (declining a particular career opportunity that would have required relocation), but I personally have zero regrets.
I also hear from some ambitious & successful people with a 4 year old that say "I've lost my ambition, I am so immersed in fatherhood". At least for me, and a number of my friends, it comes back. You can't keep an ambitious person down and if you have the fire, hanging at a playground on too many Tuesday afternoons is going to feel like torture after too long.
My three boys are approaching 13, 11 & 9, and it's much different than 7, 5 & 3. This summer, for example, they slept until 11am and I hard an unencumbered 6am-12pm to work (being on PT helps), then got another great window 7-11pm, but was able to be present in the heart of the day, then weeks when they were at basketball camp, etc. It gets easier, your time frees up again (there's a sadness to that too), but I'm back to working as intensely as I did pre-kids just because my day to day presence requires fewer hours than it did before (also, my wife is just superbly wonderful). And that is the beautiful gift of entrepreneurship (or at least my sort of business), the ability to deliver still a high level of output but work that around your life rather than the opposite.
TLDR, grind before, and grind after. Prepare for the golden window.
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Mark Walter has been looking for cash to fund billions of dollars in loans for months, and he isn't just trying to sell his sports assets.
According to @Ourand_Puck, Mark Walter engaged Charter Communications to see whether the company wanted to exit its local TV deals for the Lakers and Dodgers several years early in exchange for a lump-sum payment, but those talks went nowhere.
The Dodgers currently have one of the best local TV deals in sports — 25 years, $8.35 billion for an average of $334 million annually — but Walter was willing to exit the deal early in exchange for upfront cash today.
That's crazy.
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the more people you consult for advice, the more likely you’ll make a bad/average decision.
(1) ppl are, on average, risk averse...and, in quantity, will blunt your boldness.
(2) ppl may hate/envy opportunities they lack.
(3) ppl tend to mix cynicism (bad) w/ criticism (good)
Michael Beach retweeted
Lost my phone at the office and spent 30 minutes turning the place over. Find My was disabled by MDM.
Out of ideas, I asked Claude how I could find it. It suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength, then wrote me a meter in about a minute.
I walked around watching the number climb. Found it.
Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.
Code: github.com/ben-z/findphone
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You wake up
Your husband looks young, the same mustache he used to have over twenty years ago
There are voices in the kitchen
You sit and listen, you can make out one, two… three, three little voices all the way in the kitchen
There is the smell of pancakes in the air, along with some bacon, you are hungry
You look down, your hands, so young
As soon as you walk into the kitchen little voices all cry out your name “mama, mama!!” Hugs filled the air along with sticky syrup hands, but you do not care
By the sink there he stands, your husband
Tall, full head of blonde hair, and you cannot help but hug him. His body feels so strong, filled with youth, you take his smell in, and you stand there taking in the warmth, listening to the children arguing over who gets the last piece of bacon, watching their little feet run across the kitchen floor, memorizing everything, because this ordinary so unimportant Saturday is what you wish you could go back to the most
And then you wake up, life has gone by, you are old, the house is empty, the children are grown, your body aches
And you finally know, you finally understand that at the end of life you will not wish to have had more promotions, to have gone back for one more day of work, to of had more time to clean the house, for one more day of school, for errands, for anything else besides a slow Saturday morning where the air smells like pancakes, and the house is filled with little voices, and you are woken up to the small bodies and the smell of the little heads you love most in the entire world.
An extraordinary life is made up of ordinary days. Of a summer breeze, and small hands, of cold cheeks you kiss in the autumn afternoons, of a steady hand that holds yours, of the wonderful miracle that is having everyone you love, all with you under the same roof.
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Working from home is walking downstairs to get another Diet Coke while my wife battles my unruly children.
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$17 million per year is more money than pretty much every NBA jersey patch deal outside of Los Angeles, New York, Golden State, etc. This deal covers all 36 OSU teams, but almost all of the value will come from football.
NEWS: Ohio Stare is entering a new corporate partnership with JPMorganChase that includes jersey patches for all 36 OSU teams. Per industry sources, this is expected to yield OSU nearly $17 million per year, an eye-popping number that’s expected to be an industry leader.
A must read every year
On a hike in San Francisco several years ago, @photomatt recommended I read “The Tail End” by @waitbutwhy on the Wait But Why blog—if you only read one article this month, make it that one. It uses diagrams to underscore how short life really is.
Here’s just one gem: “It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end.”
Might be time for you (and me) to rethink our personal priorities.