INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."
NONE of his scary predictions have come true.
Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.
Here's why we are not doomed:
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
“Boy, that Donald Trump man, ain’t he something else? Yeah, y’all know President Trump, the one y’all be calling racist all the time. Y’all see him the other day taking pictures with black people? You can’t get more racist than that.”
ALL OF THIS!! 🔥🔥👇🏼
ADAM CAROLLA: “If Hollywood thought Trump was a real dictator… they would shut their cowardly f*cking mouths IMMEDIATELY.”
“They got big problems with Israel. They got big problems with Catholics. They got no problem with Islam. Wait a minute. Hold on.”
“You guys love women... and you hate oppression, right? But you’re gonna storm into Catholic churches and… you’ve got nothing to say about the group that actually does all the oppressing and subjugates women and treats women horribly? You love gay rights? These guys throw gay guys off the tops of buildings in a burlap sack.”
“Don Lemon… Don’t go to the mosque and start fcking around. Someone’s gonna get you with a machete, and you f*cking know it.”
Mitch McConnell confirmed he is voting “No” on the SAVE ACT
Mitch McConnell is 83 years old and is so cognitively impaired he couldn’t even answer if he’s running for reelection in 2026
You have to see this to believe it. These people are everything wrong with America.
Pouring one out for The Reverend Jesse Jackson. A giant and a champion for civil rights and equality.
But can anyone read Green Eggs and Ham better? No.
Strategic Imperative in the Selection of Syracuse’s Next Athletic Director
The selection of Syracuse University’s next Athletic Director is not a routine administrative decision — it is a strategic inflection point.
College athletics is consolidating rapidly. Within the next several years, we are likely to see one or more super-conferences comprising approximately 60 institutions that will define the highest competitive and commercial tier of collegiate sports. Syracuse is currently on the margin of that ecosystem. The trajectory from here will be determined, in meaningful part, by this appointment.
The modern athletic department is no longer an amateur enterprise. It is a hybrid organization operating at the intersection of education, media, capital markets, and professional sports. It requires executive leadership capable of functioning as a CEO — with competencies across revenue generation, NIL structuring, brand monetization, media rights strategy, football and basketball operations, and organizational culture.
Syracuse’s historical conservatism at this pivot point has created a competitive lag. Meanwhile, peer institutions have accelerated their investment in professionalized leadership, NIL capitalization, and strategic athletic infrastructure. The window to respond is narrowing.
Importantly, Syracuse possesses one of the most accomplished alumni networks in the sporting world — individuals with championship-level experience in professional leagues, deep expertise in management evaluation, and substantial capacity to support NIL and commercial initiatives. That intellectual and financial capital should be integrated meaningfully into the selection process.
Leaders such as Scott Pioli, whose championship experience and recent advisory roles with major universities reflect precisely the professionalization now underway, represent the type of expertise that should inform this decision. The fusion of amateur athletics with professional operational models is not theoretical — it is the present reality.
This search requires:
•A broadened advisory lens
•Evaluators experienced in hiring and assessing top-tier executive management
•A rigorous review of each candidate’s strategic plan, particularly regarding football and basketball operations
•Clear articulation of NIL capitalization strategy and donor engagement
•A defined roadmap for media rights optimization and long-term conference positioning
The wrong selection risks more than underperformance. It risks donor disengagement in the NIL ecosystem, erosion of competitive relevance, and continued brand deterioration in what was once one of the most respected athletic programs in the country.
There is still time. But the margin for error is thin.
This is a moment to think wider, leverage the expertise that exists within the Syracuse community, and select a leader prepared to operate in today’s commercialized collegiate environment — not yesterday’s.
The stakes are real, and the consequences will be enduring.