Magic Mike

[Scott Kacsmar @ScottKacsmar]

It took LeBron James 8 seasons before he had a single teammate average 18.0 points per game in a season.

The only player out of the 500 I researched who had to wait that long.

83.8% of them had a teammate do that in Year 1. Many had multiple.

https://t.co/88hgcHUeCw

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

The MJ PR machine is impressive ngl.

His first 3 postseasons he got bounced first round. Swept twice with a 1-9 total record. Next 3 postseasons all got ended by DET. 6 straight postseasons of belt to ass before his 1st Finals trip and folks will be dead serious when they tell you that’s that’s more impressive than a Finals run in your very 1st postseason.

Like I said it’s reached the point where the PR machine around him is so unapologetically revisionist that it’s actually impressive now.

[Damien Peters @DamienPetersNBA]

Insane stat of the day:

Steph Curry has missed the playoffs 40% of his career.

LeBron James has been in the Finals 43% of his career.

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

Rippling launched its AI analyst today. I'm not just the CEO - I'm also the Rippling admin for our co, and I run payroll for our ~ 5K global employees.

Here are 5 specific ways Rippling AI has changed my job, and why I believe this is the future of G&A software. 🧵 1/n

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

In other tech news - Rippling is launching corporate travel.

https://t.co/S5BmtFPWl3

- Control travel spend before it happens ("only allow booking flights within 30% of the cost of cheapest reasonable flight").

- Because it's integrated with Rippling, you can easily build out policies based on someone's role (different policies for VPs than Managers).

Congrats @mustbesyrup , who founded Rippling Travel and has been building it for the last 3 years!

[Matthew Knipfer @Knipfer]

Customer testimonial: We asked to be put in the beta as soon as we caught wind, and Rippling Travel has been fantastic. We got to describe every problem we had with AmexGBT, as well as all that we wish a travel portal could do, and everything has been implemented or is impending on the roadmap.

It’s as easy as Google Flights for the employee and allows us to implement all policies and financial tracking on top of the framework we already use for org structure.

[des @cruisehunt]

i aint reading all that

[NBEinstein @NBEinstein]

LeBron James toying with the Clippers with his unique basketball IQ.

[kyle @knicks_tape99]

Towns in the locker room to gobert

[LeBron James @KingJames]

AYYYYYEEEEEE!!!! LET'S FKN GOOOOOOOOOOOO #DawgPound

[Computer Cowboy @benbbaldwin]

Even without any era adjustments and playing in an offensive-friendly environment, the Browns defense has been the hardest defense to earn a first down against in the entire nflfastR era (since 1999)

[Nate Tice @Nate_Tice]

before the 2 minute warning, here was the yardage gained on each of the 49ers dropbacks in the second half:

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Extraversion is not a prerequisite for leadership.

It doesn't matter how outgoing people are. What counts is how well they communicate and how committed they are to serving.

The people to promote are the ones with the skill—and the will—to elevate the group above themselves.

[Magic Mike @mikehatfield_]

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[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Piper: “The devil only has two weapons: pain and pleasure. He will either hurt you so bad you hate God or give you so much pleasure you don’t need God. And the solution to both is the same. God is more precious than what I lose. God is more precious than what I gain.”

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

You never know what people are going through.

We like to expect perfection and to take things personally if they aren't.

Often, what's going on behind the scenes, in their life or environment, might be the actual cause.

Lead with empathy and understanding.

[Magic Mike @mikehatfield_]

@rodger This isn’t being a “college football regular season” stan. This is your preference. Ohio State lost less times in the regular season than any other option