Mark Smith

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River Valley Futbol Club

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

He didn't want a room full of crying people, so he pulled off the ultimate funeral prank.

In October 2019, Shay Bradley, a 62-year-old Irish Defence Force veteran, loving father, and grandfather, was battling a long-term illness and knew his time was short. He and his son secretly recorded a hilarious audio track. As his coffin was lowered into the ground in South County Dublin, Ireland, a hidden speaker suddenly started playing the recording.

[Nick Roush @RoushKSR]

Horses have been racing for thousands of years. This one takes the cake.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The older I get, the more I realize that the happiest people are very difficult to rush.

I recently sat next to a gentleman on a flight who was returning from his 60th high school reunion. We struck up a conversation and ended up chatting for the whole time we were in the air.

When we landed, everyone leapt up to grab their bags as fast as possible. Except for him. He sat there, sipping the plastic cup of wine from the flight.

I asked if I could grab his bag, but he just shook his head. I must have given him a funny look, because he smiled:

"I never understood the rush. We're all going to the same place, after all."

I figured he meant baggage claim, but as I walked out of the airport, I realized my mistake. The same place was more meta than I originally understood.

And he was in no rush to beat everyone there.

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

The happiest people always strike me as very difficult to rush.

They act slowly and deliberately. When they move with urgency, it's because they want to, not because of some arbitrary pressure.

It's small things that give it away:

• They let people go ahead in traffic
• They greet workers at a coffee shop
• They look up instead of down at their phone

I've started trying to embrace a few tiny acts of slow rebellion per day. And while the rush instinct is still there, every time I resist it, I think of that gentleman on the flight.

Smiling, sipping his airplane red wine, in no rush to beat anyone to the place we're all headed.

[Eric Cole @erichustls]

My lawyer works for some of the richest folks in New York.

Yesterday he asked me:

Do you have a "death folder" for your family.

I said no.

He replied:

If you love your family, prepare these death documents right now:

(Every smart millionaire has these)

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: The ability to recognize things that don’t matter. The world will pressure you to care about every single thing. To chase every problem. To take every slight personally. To have opinions on everything. Reject that trend. Focus on a few, ignore the rest.

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

Official splits from Josh Kerr's 3:42.66 mile world record:

By 400m
400m: 55.3
800m: 1:51.1 (56.8 second lap)
1200m: 2:46.5 (55.4 second lap)
1600m: 3:41.4 (54.9 second lap)
Finish (Mile): 3:42.66

By 100m
100m: 13.8
200m: 27.5 (13.7)
300m: 41.0 (13.5)
400m: 55.3 (14.3)
500m: 1:09.3 (14.0)
600m: 1:23.2 (13.9)
700m: 1:37.0 (13.8)
800m: 1:51.1 (14.1)
900m: 2:05.1 (14.0)
1000m: 2:18.8 (13.7)
1100m: 2:32.6 (13.8)
1200m: 2:46.5 (13.9)
1300m: 3:00.3 (13.8)
1400m: 3:14.0 (13.7)
1500m: 3:27.7 (13.7)
1600m: 3:41.4 (13.7)
Finish (1609.34m): 3:42.66 (1.2 for the final 9.34m)

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

There’s a man out there in the world named Josh Kerr who ran the mile in 3:42 and broke a 27-year world record

That’s absolutely insane

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week.

Bookmark it for later

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

An 18-year-old asked me for life advice this week.

My response: Don’t stress over the things the world tells you to stress about (college, major, first job).

Just try to:

(1) Be curious
(2) Be valuable
(3) Be around great people

If you do that, the rest will work itself out.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Tom Brady reveals the brutally honest talk he had with a Michigan sports psychologist that turned him from a benchwarmer into the GOAT.

Brady's transformation started with one change: the way he thought.

"I sit on the bench my first year, and I really had—I would call it—a lot of self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. I always had an excuse. 'Coach doesn't want me in there.'"

"I had a sports psychologist. His name was Greg Harden. I would go into his office every Tuesday, and he would say, 'Tom, I like you. You work hard, but you have a shitty attitude.'"

"'How about you start worrying about what you can control and stop talking about the other quarterbacks, stop talking about the coaches not putting you in.'"

"If they give you three reps, you do the best with the three you get. Quit bitching about you only getting three or you going in there with the backup receivers. No one cares.'"

"'You treat practice like it's a game. If you throw a touchdown in the two-minute in practice, you celebrate like it's the game.'"

Brady never approached it that way before. Then "sure enough" everything changed.

"Mmy energy started getting way better. I was bringing juice; I had the right attitude."

"Then all of a sudden, I'm bringing the juice, man. Every day, boom."

"That [mindshift] really helped me get better."

The road to 7 Super Bowl rings didn't start on the practice field; it started in that very office…

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: June CPI inflation falls to 3.5%, below expectations of 3.8%

Core CPI inflation falls to 2.6%, below expectations of 2.8%.

Month-over-month CPI inflation fell -0.4%, the biggest monthly drop since May 2020.

US stock market futures are surging on the news.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I think there are two types of optimism:

1. Passive Optimism
2. Active Optimism

Passive Optimism is exclusively about belief. The belief that things will work out. Blind faith.

Active Optimism is about belief that begets action. The belief that things will work out, and the action to make sure they do. Earned faith.

Passive Optimism fails for the same reason Pessimism does. Because it doesn’t move. The passive optimist does nothing because he thinks he doesn’t have to.

And the reality is that Passive Optimism can often masquerade as patience, faith, or even wisdom. It’s the career path that will sort itself out. It’s the relationship struggle that will surely disappear with time. It’s the health issue that will eventually go away.

Belief is great. Faith is great. But without appropriate action, they are a recipe for long-term disappointment.

A mentor once told me this:

Always assume things will work out, then do the work to make it true.

That combination creates a quiet confidence that allows you to tolerate uncertainty better than anything else.

It’s a mindset of Active Optimism. Belief and action.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The world’s oldest living land animal - the Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan - has recently celebrated his 193rd birthday.

He was basically born ~30 years before the US Civil War started.

[Mark Smith @gowithmark]

Welcome to the Land of the Free!

[Tara LaRosa @TaraLaRosa]

Greatest new song to come out of the World Cup! ⚽️❤️🇺🇸 Welcome To The Land Of The Free!🇺🇸❤️⚽️

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

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[ESPN @espn]

Poch was belting out 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' at full time 🎶🥳

He just led the USMNT to the Round of 16 🇺🇸

[Deadspin @Deadspin]

An Argentina fan lost their wallet, so fans chanted the name on the cards inside until the owner was found.

Dudes rock.

[FloTrack @FloTrack]

Vincent Bouillard is your 2026 Western States CHAMPION 👑

Bouillard SHATTERS the Course Record of 14:09 by running an outlandish 13:46:15. He leads four men under the previous course record with Francesco Puppi, Ryan Montgomery and Thomas Cardin running 13:51:08, 13:53:55, and 14:07:58, respectively.

WHAT A RACE 🔥🍻

#WesternStates

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

In 1987, a man purchased a lifetime unlimited first-class American Airlines ticket for $250,000. Over the years, he took more than 10,000 flights, reportedly costing the airline around $21 million. The ticket was eventually revoked in 2008.

In 1987, Chicago stockbroker Steve Rothstein purchased American Airlines’ “AAirpass” for $250,000, granting him unlimited lifetime first-class travel. Over the next two decades, he used it more than 10,000 times, accumulating over 30 million frequent flyer miles and reportedly costing the airline around $21 million.

He became known for treating first-class cabins as a personal transit system, taking spontaneous international trips just for lunch or to attend baseball games. The pass ultimately turned a promotional offer into a major financial liability for the airline.

In December 2008, American Airlines revoked the pass at Chicago O’Hare International Airport following an internal investigation into its highest-cost users. The airline argued Rothstein had breached the agreement, citing actions such as booking companion seats under fake names like “Bag Rothstein” to keep adjacent seats empty and gifting flights to strangers. He later filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit to recover the pass, but the case was ultimately dismissed.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

The @USMNT faithful serenade their team with "Take Me Home, Country Roads" in Seattle 🇺🇸