Scott Tibert

Boston | Investing | Bryant University Football Alum

[Scott Tibert @Stibert_2]

@PardonMyTake @PardonMyMeme @SportsCenter @BussinWTB @BarstoolGruden @BarstoolBigCat @_willcompton

Son is gonna come out ready to meet in the A-gap #footballguy

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

🚀 The only career advice you need:

The actor Glen Powell auditioned to play Rooster in Top Gun: Maverick.

When the role was given to Miles Teller, Powell was devastated. He was offered a smaller role, but declined.

Tom Cruise summoned Powell to his house and asked him:

“What kind of career do you want?”

Powell responded:

“I want to be like you—an iconic movie star. You always choose great roles.”

Cruise shook his head.

“You’re wrong. I choose great movies, then I make the role great.”

Powell got the message. He accepted the role of Hangman—and nailed it.

Now Powell says:

“It changed the trajectory of my career.”

When young people ask me for career advice, I tell them something similar:

🚀 Attach yourself to a rocketship.

Join companies that are growing quickly. Work with people who are going places. Be part of something great.

Play your role—no matter how minor—exceptionally well.

The rest will take care of itself.

P.S. I don't write engagement bait, so I need your help to spread the word. If you enjoyed this post, would you like, comment, and repost?

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

A small group of activists shut down clean nuclear power - and now they are trying to do the same to data centers. It would plunge the country into a recession, high unemployment & risk our national security to China. 🇺🇸

[Scott Tibert @Stibert_2]

Just saw a deck that said returns “assume a 50 year hold” and am curious if they have met anyone deploying capital ever who actually has that time horizon

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Boston Celtics @celtics]

Injury Report Update:

Jayson Tatum - AVAILABLE

[Scott Tibert @Stibert_2]

@CoachVBisonHC Thanks coach! Appreciate it. Likewise hope all is good with you!

[Scott Tibert @Stibert_2]

As a new parent, I owe a significant portion of my sanity to the discovery of “brown noise”.

[Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13]

Hey lemme ask a question. Are we all stupid? Is this mass psychosis?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Boston man shows up to the Polymarket Portal in -1° F weather wearing shorts, throws a snowball at Seattle.

[Patriots Lead @Patriots_Lead]

The New England Patriots have the chance to win their 7th Super Bowl in franchise history. #NEPats

We all we got, we all we need.

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Gotta stay ahead of the snow. Get that first pass of shoveling done. Don’t let it sneak up on you. Every 2 hours

[Julian Edelman @Edelman11]

New England vs Everybody #GoPats

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

[Ben Stevens @BenScottStevens]

Me looking at all the beers on tap before I say “I’ll take a Bud Light”.

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

GOING TO THE AFC CHAMPIONSHIP

[Brett @Brett_Pats]

Gameday.

[Church ⛪️ @chuuuuuuuuuch]

These just get better and better 🥶 what a time to be a pats fan #NEPats #BeatHouston

LETS GO

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

DIVISIONAL ROUND COMING UP!!!!!

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