last two weeks been crazy
-got invited to pitch Isio at the EU innovation fair in Brussels
-visa didn’t drop in time, couldn’t make the trip
-had to pitch online
-my guy ends up showing in the huge ass mirror behind me
-i end the pitch, the room is clapping and laughing😭😂
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Everybody wants to be enlightened, nobody wants to do the fucking dishes. the highest thing you can be as a human being is not the thing you understood, it's the thing you did. some guy who can't spell his own name right but built a house with his two hands that actually stands is closer to God than any man who read a thousand books and never moved his thumb for anyone else. not because he prayed because he made a thing exist that didn't exist before, and that's what God did, and that's all anybody is asking you to do
Unlike most people, I’m not going to be revisionist about Cristiano Ronaldo’s career.
Up until around 33–34, before he fully transitioned into a more traditional Center Forward, there wasn’t a player in world football who combined speed, dribbling, finishing, and complete dominance across all areas of the final third the way he did. Left, right, centrally, in transition or against set defenses, Ronaldo had both the tools and the effectiveness.
And for me, a career up to 34 playing at that level is more than enough of a sample size to define a player at their truest level.
For context, Ronaldinho was largely done by 30. Marco van Basten by 28. Diego Maradona declined in his mid-30s. Johan Cruyff in his late 30s. Di Asa Ronaldo was done by 34.
So the fact that Ronaldo not only sustained elite output up to that point, but then reinvented his entire game and continued dominating with a completely different approach after 34 is something we’ve never really seen before.
For me, that combination of peak completeness and post-peak adaptation is enough to call him the GOAT. Forever.