P!nk was like: “wow everyone just assumed I advocate for genocide because of a repost before I even said anything. I do advocate for genocide of course but you shouldn’t have assumed!”
Ben Shelton advanced to the U.S. Open Final on Friday night after defeating Frances Tiafoe. Shelton is the first Black American man to play in a U.S. Open final since Arthur Ashe in 1972. He will face No. 1 seed Alexander Zverev on Sunday.
He was a mensch for this. He did a lot of stupid, evil things as president. But when he had the chance to leverage public opinion against a vulnerable minority, for personal gain, he said "no". Imagine the current crop of criminals showing even this baseline level of integrity.
My mate back in England married his first ever girlfriend.
They met at school. Never left our hometown. He still works at British Gas, the same company he joined at 21. Heads down the pub every Friday.
They've got two kids, a garden, a dog. She still looks at him like he's the only man in the room.
He's never read Atomic Habits. Never "worked on himself." Never bothered to optimize his supplement stack.
I moved to four countries, built a business, reinvented my entire life. I wouldn't change any of it.
But when he sends a photo of his family eating Sunday roast together, I think maybe we're all overcomplicating this.
A Harvard professor who studied happy people for 40 years left me in tears when he told me:
There are 8 things that decide your quality of life.
1. The distance between your house and your job.
As a black person , a Nigerian ! I’m gonna say this in the softest way possible
Africa must work , we must fix Africa . It’s crazy and brazy in other continents man
We Africans are probably the only humans that exist with emotional intelligence and empathy.