The Celtics sale tells you a lot about where sports ownership is heading.
A private equity firm financed the deal.
And they negotiated preferred shares, meaning the PE firm gets paid back before other owners, and changes the power of who runs the team.
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@FreddyLA7@FreddyLA7 you guys have to stop at @SchillingBeer in beautiful Littleton, NH for beer and pizza on your way to Boston!! You will not regret it! https://t.co/m6ph6sydRe
When music brings people together… One lone piper from Scotland and Boston’s finest bucket-drum maestro somehow created the collaboration nobody knew they needed 🥹
27 years ago today, June 13, 1999, Jacksonville rap rock band Limp Bizkit played a guerrilla style concert on the roof of a parking garage next to Fenway Park.
Boston Police shut down the illegal gig in a middle of George Michael’s "Faith" cover.
No permit, no show, no fun.
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
NEW: Disney Cruise Line debuted a new ad titled “Midnight Magic” during the Academy Awards on ABC, and it’s a tearjerker.
The spot follows a father and son sharing a quiet tradition aboard a Disney ship, a ritual that carries their relationship from childhood into adulthood.
They just confirmed a massive freshwater reservoir off the coast of Massachusetts.
Possibly 20,000 years old.
Big enough to supply NYC for 800 years.
There’s literally a hidden ocean of fresh water beneath the Atlantic.
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Bill Belichick breaks down leadership into two things - and it's simpler than you think.
"Leadership to me is 2 things: doing your job and putting the team first."
Let me explain.
"If you can't do your job, then you don't have any leadership."
"And if you do your job for selfish reasons and don't care about the team, then the team doesn't really embrace you."
It means focusing on your action and what you consistently do. People want leaders that are selfless, consistent, and people of character.
"If you do your job and you're a good teammate, then you have good leadership - regardless of whether you're vocal, not vocal, whatever your leadership style is."
"There's a lot of different leadership styles. But if you can do your job, everybody will respect you. And if you put the team first, everybody will respect you."
Leadership isn't a title - it's your behaviors.
The behaviors according to Belichick: Do your job. Put the team first.
Earn respect through actions.
(🎥@raydalio)
This is the most detailed study on personality and intelligence ever done:
First, the Big Five: Neuroticism is robustly associated with lower intelligence, particularly processing speed and quantitative ability.