Ron Bronson

| Product delivery executive. Faculty @UMich. Pres. Emeritus @aigaportland. Co-host Alum @18F

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

you've gotta be actively playing, in the right part of the country and at least a 9 UTR for a US girl to sniff a P4 schollie. It's truly dismal times. For boys it's worse.

[The Payers & Players Podcast @PayersPlayers]

American Juniors committing to P4 schools 📉

[Desus MF Nice💯 @desusnice]

hov rapping again & the knicks back in the finals. It’s like nyc just came home from doing a murder charge

[arne ness @arne__ness]

you used to be able to rent a hotel room under a fake name now i need an app to do my damn laundry

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

Someone has to (want) to fund this stuff and they don't.

[Sir S Morgenstern @SoToR75]

@Diplomatt42 @GaryWinslett @nicholas_bagley The “Bureau of Municipal Research” (where Robert Moses got his first job) served this function in NYC over a century ago. Made obvious to the public Tammany Hall fraud and grift.

When it’s the system and process itself that fails, who is the mimetic scapegoat for public outcry?

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Youth sports is now costing parents as much as $25,000 a year.

Private equity and corporations are turning a childhood pastime into something only the wealthy can afford.

Youth sports has become a $40 billion industry, and the steep costs are crushing American families.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

And in Complex Systems, the first of two parts, on why we sometimes arrive at non-profit financial infrastructure existing within for-profit institutions.

https://t.co/SktnRI13rP

Tune in next week for the followup.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

I do not endorse the strong form of this claim but I think we are nowhere near institutional understanding of even weaker versions of this claim.

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

this is very cool actually two opposing world series managers having a chat about "okay man talk me through that." further cements 2025 as one of the best world series ever tbh. so much lore. (still mad jays lost)

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Dave Roberts always wondered if part of the Blue Jays' calculus for intentionally walking Shohei Ohtani during the 18-inning Game 3 was to tire him out before his Game 4 start. So he asked John Schneider -- and the answer is an illuminating look into World Series strategy.

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

the lack of opportunities for american high school tennis players is worth talking about for the last few decades. college tennis job isn't to produce pro tennis players, it shouldn't be a minor league for international players either. https://t.co/LMWHDx1Fm7

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

We've made incredible progress on advancing a team state tournament for high school tennis in Oregon. This year also debuted https://t.co/JgujpcUfm2 as a running power ranking for tennis teams in Oregon. #opreps

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

@showfortennis just like the portal stuff was happening years earlier in tennis

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

Club volleyball and club soccer are a blight on spring high school sports. Can't withhold my ire for how it's ruined two-sport athletes

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

I’m fascinated by the new PE-fueled landscape of youth sports, and there seems to be a curious new wrinkle: it’s killing lacrosse. Basically, teens now NEED to do club sports in addition to their school teams, which means they have to drop a lesser sport (do club soccer in spring instead of lacrosse). https://t.co/FqsWxRmXC7

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

i hate abbreviating ALCS but I like that they finally put up banners honoring every achievement even in the World Series years

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

An accomplishment…together.

Vladdy and George help us reveal the banners 💙

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

Iowa deserved the win, Nebraska can't shoot worth a damn down the stretch, what a waste.

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

When I was at the FTC, I heard from various people that social media companies were hiring tons of psychologists. So I asked our law clerk to go on LinkedIn to try to figure out how many they had. She came back to me and told me there were too many to count. She suggested I focus on PhDs, and I said sure let's try that.

A day later she came back and told me that just three or four companies had 180 or 190 PhD psychologists and brain scientists, and that one company, alone, had around 150.

So I then asked her to figure out what these people were doing. For that, we looked at job postings. And the sad fact we saw was that while a minority of the open posts were for jobs that would mitigate or prevent addiction and other harms, the large majority of those posts were aimed at maximizing "engagement" -- at keeping people hooked for longer.

So, with the support of Chair Khan, we started building the first behavioral team at the FTC, and hired on our first pediatrician, our first psychologist, and a human-computer interaction specialist (a technologist). This was the scrappy, brilliant group that was starting to help us assess the public allegations against these companies.

I always wished that more of my parent friends could talk to -- and learn -- from Dr. Radesky, the pediatrician and youth development expert who was the anchor of that group. And now she has generously agreed to field questions from @thefairfightpod listeners -- details on how you can submit a question are below. If you have a question about your kids, teens (or yourself) and AI chatbots and social media, this is a rare chance to get that answered by a top expert in the field.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

This is broadly important for governmental service design, tech industry UX design, and just understanding the world we live in.

There is an intense aversion to this fact in many quarters, and *it is a fact.* One of best reasons to work retail / a CS job is you'll learn it hard.

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

not every thought is an outside thought

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

if you talk this kind of shit against a fellow head coach, you should just have the courage to put your name on it

[Jeff Goodman @GoodmanHoops]

One ACC head coach to me on Hubert Davis' departure:

"I had really hoped he was the coach forever. No one in the ACC was scared of him. I'm worried that they hire someone really good now because if you get a big-time guy at UNC, they could be right there with Duke again."

[Ron Bronson @ronbronson]

have to use this in a talk at some point

[Dan Wolken @DanWolken]

Absolute icon