Yesterday I wrapped up my college baseball career as well as my playing career. I was reflecting on some things that I wish I knew coming into college or somethings that I would tell younger players interested in playing college baseball. So here they are in no particular order⬇️
Five months ago, I argued against the President's $4 trillion tariffs at the Supreme Court.
In 237 years, the Court had never struck down a sitting President's signature initiative. Legal scholars said it was impossible. Some of my own colleagues said it was impossible.
We won. 6-3.
But the real story isn't what happened in that courtroom. It's what happened in the months before. And its the subject of my TED talk, coming out tomorrow.
I had the best legal team in the nation, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak, the most outstanding legal strategist I know. Huge thanks, too, go to the Liberty Justice Center (and in particular its fearless and hyper-intelligent leader Sara Albrecht), who organized the client small businesses, as well as to the brave small businesses themselves.
I also had four teachers preparing me.
A mindset coach who'd worked with Andre Agassi.
An improv coach who taught me that "Yes, and" works in Supreme Court arguments the same way it works everywhere else.
A meditation coach who taught me stillness.
And Harvey.
Harvey predicted many of the questions the Justices asked — sometimes almost word for word. Brilliant. Tireless. Occasionally insufferable.
Here's the catch: Harvey isn't a person.
Harvey is a bespoke AI I built over the last year with a legal AI company, trained on every question every Justice has asked in oral argument for 25 years, and everything they've ever written.
Tomorrow, TED releases my talk about what really happened — and what I learned standing at that podium.
AI can predict. AI can analyze. What AI cannot do is the one thing that actually won the argument.
Connect. Read the room. Hear not just a Justice's words, but her worry — and answer the worry.
That is the irreducibly human skill.
Find yours. Go deeper. In this age of AI, that's where your edge lives.
The talk goes live Thursday, May 7 at 11am ET: https://t.co/wLxKtBsHpF
What's the irreducibly human skill in your work — the thing AI can't touch?
Every single word of this fantastic column by @Peggynoonannyc
‘I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information—a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information. ‘
https://t.co/gHH5IGBcEo
I'm excited to share my latest podcast conversation with @elizabeth, Managing Partner of @ScribbleVC.
Elizabeth's career spans some of the most influential chapters in tech. She helped scale Twitter from 50 to 3,000 people, built the market development function at a16z, and has invested in over 60 companies, including Slack, SpaceX, Coinbase, & Figma.
More Marty Baron:
"This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world’s greatest news organizations...[T]he public will be denied the ground-level, fact-based reporting in our communities and around the world that is needed more than ever."
‘I don’t think he gives a flying fuck’ — tj great David Marannis, on Jeff Bezos’s ruination of the WaPo…
Important read here from @RuthMarcus: https://t.co/ogB3LsvtBC
The Deck of Design Values is officially available from the https://t.co/kTSgUDPFaR + @amplifierart.
Part #creative toolkit, part #design lab, this deck offers 32 ways to unlock imagination, strengthen problem-solving, and practice building a more just and joyful future.