@eat_dc My go-to when I REALLY need a break from the office grind and have a long lunch hour. Iโm just annoyed the potatoes gratin thing got removed from the pre-fixe, also I donโt remember there being a surcharge for the filet a few months ago and there is one now
SupremeNewYork is dropping a Hardwood Classics jersey line in Spring/Summer 2026 featuring a Bullets jersey ๐๐๐
Bullets culture making a comeback in the big 2026?! TED LEONSIS TAKE NOTES ๐ ๐งโโ๏ธ๐๏ธโค๏ธ๐๐๐๐ is this ๐ฅ or ๐ฎ?
Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.
$30 per seat per month.
$1.4 million annually.
I called it "digital transformation."
The board loved that phrase.
They approved it in eleven minutes.
No one asked what it would actually do.
Including me.
I told everyone it would "10x productivity."
That's not a real number.
But it sounds like one.
HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.
I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."
They stopped asking.
Three months later I checked the usage reports.
47 people had opened it.
12 had used it more than once.
One of them was me.
I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.
It took 45 seconds.
Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.
But I called it a "pilot success."
Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.
The CFO asked about ROI.
I showed him a graph.
The graph went up and to the right.
It measured "AI enablement."
I made that metric up.
He nodded approvingly.
We're "AI-enabled" now.
I don't know what that means.
But it's in our investor deck.
A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.
I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."
He asked what that meant.
I said "compliance."
He asked which compliance.
I said "all of them."
He looked skeptical.
I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."
He stopped asking questions.
Microsoft sent a case study team.
They wanted to feature us as a success story.
I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."
I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.
They didn't verify it.
They never do.
Now we're on Microsoft's website.
"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."
The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.
He got 3,000 likes.
He's never used Copilot.
None of the executives have.
We have an exemption.
"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."
I wrote that policy.
The licenses renew next month.
I'm requesting an expansion.
5,000 more seats.
We haven't used the first 4,000.
But this time we'll "drive adoption."
Adoption means mandatory training.
Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.
But completion will be tracked.
Completion is a metric.
Metrics go in dashboards.
Dashboards go in board presentations.
Board presentations get me promoted.
I'll be SVP by Q3.
I still don't know what Copilot does.
But I know what it's for.
It's for showing we're "investing in AI."
Investment means spending.
Spending means commitment.
Commitment means we're serious about the future.
The future is whatever I say it is.
As long as the graph goes up and to the right.
@wicccsterr Shut him down FC, honestly a win this weekend would be terrible for the franchise. Accept itโs a rebuild year, play the young guys, and let us know what we actually need for next year.
>be me
>landlord in LA
>rent house in the hills to 25yo CFO of a โreal estate companyโ
>arrives in lime-green Bentley w/ influencer "gf" + emotional support micro-poodle
>stops paying rent
>emails me a PDF from the county website saying โCOVID-related income lossโ
>nothing I can do, because LA = anarchy
>nonstop Eyes Wide Shut parties at my house
>dog melts my hardwood floors w/ atomic diarrhea
>claims poverty on paper while bottle-servicing magnums of Ace in my pool
>private jets to Paris, Tulum, Miami, Vegas
>"gf" showered w/ diamonds, birkin bags, red carpets, "chopper to 'chella"
>everything posted on instagram, lest there be any doubt
>eventually moves out, I celebrate prematurely
>sues me for 8figs the next morning, just to f with me
>2y legal war
>vanishes
>today: DOJ indicts him for stealing $130M from Californiaโs homeless fund
may justice be served.