Brian Hempel

I am the luckiest man in the world...husband and father, my life is quite a gift. All thanks be to God

[PK @Still_Not_Ted]

Lid of the day 🤘🏼

[Brian Hempel @hempelbt]

@AshCrypto Bitcoin $Cash- the hard money answer

[Andrew Ryland @ADRCoachDev]

1) Dip time is much closer than most FB coaches do it. Gate should be in this spacing.
2) Over the last 4-5 years “Chase the hit” has been my coaching que.
3) notice the taller guys. Not everyone majors in below the waist tackle. Taller players also need to adjust “close” foot.

[vladuah @vladuah]

In 1997, Jeff Bezos explained why he picked books over 19 other product ideas - and called the entire internet "Day One.

He was working at a quantitative hedge fund in New York when he found the number that changed his life: web usage was growing 2,300% a year.

That single statistic sent him searching for a business model that made sense against that growth curve. He made a list of 20 possible products to sell online. Books won.

The reason had nothing to do with reading habits and everything to do with catalog size.

Music, the second-largest category, had roughly 200,000 active CDs at any given moment. Books had over 3,000,000 titles in print worldwide, across every language - more than 1,500,000 in English alone.

That gap is the entire insight: when a category has that many items, you can build a store online that couldn't exist any other way. No physical bookstore on Earth could stock 3,000,000 titles under one roof.

The inventory system he built reflected that scale directly.

A few thousand bestsellers sat in Amazon's own warehouse. Another 400,000 titles ran on what Bezos called "almost just-in-time" inventory - ordered electronically from a network of over a dozen wholesalers the same day a customer bought, arriving on the loading dock the next morning. Another 1,100,000 titles came straight from 20,000 different publishers, taking a couple weeks. And 1,000,000 out-of-print books got tracked down individually, when findable at all.

2,500,000 books in the catalog. Almost none of it physically warehoused.

Then the interviewer asked the harder question: how do you capture attention on the internet when everyone is trying?

Bezos didn't credit marketing. He credited doing something genuinely new.

"Attention is the scarce commodity of the late 20th century."

His actual strategy: build something with real value for the customer first. If it's genuinely new, journalists write about it unprompted. Customers tell other customers. The fanout compounds on its own.

Amazon ran zero paid advertising in its first year. Every bit of growth came from word of mouth and media coverage. The first ad Bezos ever ran was a tiny line at the bottom of the New York Times front page - a URL functioning almost like a compressed pitch: click here, this is a bookstore.

He closes with the line that outlived the interview by decades.

"This is Day One. This is the Kitty Hawk stage of electronic commerce."

Not the peak. Not even early growth. The first flight, barely off the ground, with almost everything about the medium still unbuilt.

[Certified Faith @ChristCert]

Man has near death experience and is shown Heaven and Hell.

Jesus tells him to run to Him harder than he was running from Him.

Isn’t it interesting that we never hear people seeing Allah or Muhammad in an experience like that?

[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

That rhythm is absolutely amazing. 🥁🔥

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

One of the most iconic trick shots in bowling history

[Owen @_OwenM_]

OH MY GOD.
JOSH KERR.
3:42.66 MILE.
WORLD RECORD.
THE ATMOSPHERE WAS DEAFENING.

#LondonDL

[Aaron Jayjack @aaronjayjack]

This 2 minute timelapse captures the Rossburn, Manitoba violent wedge tornado touching down feet in front of me yesterday evening. Multiple homes were damaged by the tornado but thankfully everyone was okay. Shot on the @insta360 X5.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Tom Brady shares what he tells every college athlete he meets and it's not what they expect.

"I hope this experience is hard for you. I hope it's not easy."

"I hope today in this game you're losing in the 4th quarter and you look at each other in the eye and try to figure out solutions to how you're gonna win the game."

"That's how you're gonna find out what you're made of."

You find out who you are when you are challenged. Expect adversity. Expect tough moments.

"Life is hard. The challenges of life are hard."

"This program is hard. It's built on toughness. It's built on resilience. And that's what I wanna see from this team."

You can't wish for easy or hope for easy.

Adversity is a gift if you let it be.
(🎥 Fox)

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

The UFL reminds me of the good old days.

Real football is making a comeback 💥

[Albatross @albatross_216]

This is one of my favorite videos of all time. As a child psychologist, it’s a perfect example of joint attention, preverbal communication, and coregulation.

[Brian Hempel @hempelbt]

@SteveW928 @Pro__Trading @Cryptoboyy_Aji @TheRealGOP Homes are a “family” investment. Rent “savings” vs home mortgage payments tend to be a wash when a family needs 4 bedrooms. I can see where your BTC strategy using the home as simply a “smaller livable unit” would work for singles or married with no children. Different paths

[Brian Hempel @hempelbt]

@baur_bruce @WheelerRipWA @seabee_patriot Federal Government not pitching in near enough. Cut the pork at the Federal level and invest taxpayer funds. School System needs 1T annually. 500b from the States, 500b from the Fed Gov. $0 from landowners. If locals/local businesses choose to contribute, 100% tax write off.

[Brian Hempel @hempelbt]

@footballlady24 @NFL_DovKleiman I think you’re missing the point, your original post clearly states you think he wasn’t drafted because of his attitude AND he “wasn’t that good anyway”…which isn’t true, truth is he was actually a sensational talent BUT his attitude sucked so bad he wasn’t drafted.

[Brian Hempel @hempelbt]

@footballlady24 @NFL_DovKleiman The point is he was an incredible college talent, obviously Johnny F’ball was too, which actually IS extremely high praise. To claim that he is an ego maniac that cost himself opportunity is spot on, to claim he wasn’t that good is dishonest

[Brian Hempel @hempelbt]

@footballlady24 @NFL_DovKleiman I watched him score 21 unanswered in the 4th at DKR. Dude has an unreal ability to heat all the way up to unstoppable. We were lucky we had a huge lead

[Brian Hempel @hempelbt]

@VinnysCorner1 One of the best lists I’ve ever seen on X. Nice work!

[4Aces GC @4AcesGC_]

Dustin Johnson’s swing mechanics ⛳️🏌️‍♂️