Nick Alexopulos

Comms, @MyBGE. Formerly @Exelon / @JHSPH_CHS / @loyolamaryland / @mdchhs. Learned storytelling ➡️ @foxbaltimore. Dad • #Gin enthusiast • #SFBX contestant

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

“I don’t think you do.”

[Alex @ajak1033]

The Spurs know how to TAKE the lead, they just don't know how to HOLD the lead. And that's really the most important part of the lead: the holding

[Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton]

I wrote about how I am thinking about the hantavirus outbreak, and what I am watching for as the situation develops. (gift link) https://t.co/8Dhnzw90eY

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

Loyola (Maryland) has three* active players in the NBA and a former player who coached two NBA teams and is now at the helm of a top-tier college basketball program.

Loyola has made the NCAA Tournament twice in program history.

*two from bball, one from lax

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

There's a new head coach in Chapel Hill 👀

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

32 minutes, 0-3 from the floor #gohounds @LoyolaMBB

[Steph Curry Muse @StephMuse_]

STEPH CURRY’S COLLEGE TAPE IS INSANE

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

For context: in the optimistic scenario where grid buildout is 150% of existing, you would need to build one new substation per month, every month, from now until 2035 **just in central Maryland** to progress along the Narwhal Curve.

[Jane Flegal @JaneAFlegal]

I am simply urging climate advocates to remember the narwhal curve as we contemplate how to take advantage of this moment to accelerate electrification.

https://t.co/83jB25nyZD

[The Baltimore Sun @baltimoresun]

BGE has declined an invitation from the president of Baltimore's City Council to tonight's hearing, calling it "political theater." The spokesperson said the only change since last year's hearing on the same topic is increased prices.

🎥: Kenneth K. Lam, @baltimoresun

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

@dougboneparth “Mommy and daddy work so we can take you on adventures to local ice cream shops” legit was a financial literacy lightbulb moment for my kids

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

Re-normalize leftovers

[Matt Post @mjpost]

Few things alienate me from my fellow Americans more than reading about their spending habits in general and food delivery in particular https://t.co/gLssb3Da7w

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

@RichardMeyerDC @RichardMeyerDC I quoted this and credited you in a radio interview this morning. Incredible proof point.

[Richard Meyer @RichardMeyerDC]

Let me illustrate the scale of our natural gas system:

The energy in the natural gas delivered today just to residential and commercial consumers is the energy equivalent of 900 GW of electric generation capacity running for 24 hours.

The grid today has 1,300 GW of capacity.

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

@Rickonia Read to them every night, from day one. And stock up on nitrile gloves.

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

Finally finished this bottle of early batch No. 026 @FourPillarsGin

Please send Rare Dry to Maryland.

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

@johnemcintyre

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Warren Buffett on the Benjamin Franklin thought exercise anyone can use to be successful

Warren Buffett offers the following advice to the students at the Terry College of Business:

“Pretend I’ve made you a great offer: You can pick any one of your classmates and you get 10% of their earnings for the rest of their lives. What goes through your mind in determining who you would pick?”

He continues:

“You probably wouldn’t pick the person who gets the highest grades in the class. There’s nothing wrong with getting the highest grades, but that’s not going to be the quality that sets apart a big winner from the rest of the pack… I think you’ll find that it gets down to a bunch of qualities that, interestingly enough, are self-made… It’s integrity, it’s honesty, it’s generosity, it’s being willing to do more than your share.”

Then he asks the class to pick a classmate to sell short:

“Who do you think is going to do the worst in the class? It isn’t the person with the lowest grades, or anything of the sort. It’s the person who just doesn’t shape up in the character department.”

When Berkshire Hathaway hires people, they look for three things:

1. Intelligence
2. Initiative or Energy
3. Integrity

Buffett explains:

“If they don’t have the latter, the first two will kill you. If you’re going to hire somebody without integrity, you want them lazy and dumb. You don’t want them smart and energetic.”

Importantly, he points out that these are habit patterns:

“The person who always claims credit for things they didn’t do, cuts corners, and who you can’t count on — in the end, those are habit patterns. And the time to form the right habits is when you’re your age… Someone once said that the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken. And I see that all the time.”

Buffett concludes:

“When you write down the habits of that person you’d like to buy 10% of, look at that list and ask yourself, ‘Is there anything on that list that I couldn’t do?’ And the answer is that there won’t be. And when you look at the person you sell short and you look at the qualities you don’t like — if you see any of those in yourself (egotism, selfishness), you can get rid of that. That is not ordained.”

This is an exercise that Benjamin Franklin did, as well as Warren Buffett’s old boss:

“Ben Graham looked around and said, ‘Who do I admire?’ He wanted to be admired himself, and he asked why he admired these other people. Then he said, ‘If I admire them for these reasons, maybe other people will admire me if I behave in a similar manner.’ And he decided what kind of a person he wanted to be.”

Video source: @universityofga (2001)

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

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[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

One bite everybody knows the rules

[Nick Alexopulos @NickAlexopulos]

#Jesuits

[Loyola Men's Lacrosse @LoyolaMLAX]

Seems like @JimmyButler knows ball 🥍

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

Denmark doesn’t vaccinate kids against RSV, rotavirus, chickenpox, hepatitis B at birth, hepatitis A, flu, or meningococcal disease.

The US does — for good reason.

My new piece in @statnews on why their schedule won’t work here.
https://t.co/ojWkVxQhjC

[Tony Pann @TonyPannWBAL]

Baby Snow Train on the way. ❄️🚂 The Big Daddy Snow Train will have to wait for another storm. 😁 Expect light snow to start in the Baltimore Metro 5 AM- 7 AM on Friday. Temps will be in the 20s, so it will stick on untreated roads. It should end by early afternoon. 1" or Less of accumulation in most areas. Higher amounts possible across Southern MD and the Lower Eastern Shore. (2"+) Stay tuned...

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

NEW ODD LOTS:

Why electricity prices surged.

@tracyalloway and I had a great chat with longtime industry pro @TKavulla about how prices are set, what changed in the last 5 years, and what it will take to get all these datacenters plugged into the grid. https://t.co/AMokJylrUD