Steve Cooke 💙Steve

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[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."

[Steve Cooke 💙Steve @stcooke]

Fabulous photo

[John Pow @Johnpow1]

I had a job to do in South Queensferry and I left home in brilliant sunshine. However, when I arrived in South Queensferry, it was shrouded in haar. Not to be deterred, I went back to North Queensferry, found a nice vantage point, and waited for this to unfold in front of me.

[Nick Mullins @andNickMullins]

If your day’s shaping up to be a bit of a challenge, harness your inner Liam. In a wheelchair, on top of Kilimanjaro. Just think about that for a second. A total star & saying thank you to @TheRugbyCharity

https://t.co/JxbqZSOrxc

📸 Kilimanjaro Experts

[St Mary's OB RFC @SMOBRUGBY]

Any Referees out there looking for a game? We have @BristolUni 5s at @SMOBRUGBY BS36 1RY tomorrow- Great food and cider availabe @glos_rugby_refs @SomerRugbyRefs @swsportsnews @GRFUrugby

Pls DM or reply to the tweet if you can help. 2:30 KO

[Roger Ford @Captain_Deltic]

@SRichardBowker @ABCommuters @We_OwnIt Structure not ownership. Which @Heidi_Labour still doesn't seem to get, preferring dog whistle politics of 'taking back the railways from the evil capitalists'.
As we ask in the September @Modern_Railways published next week, can someone please start taking GBR Seriously.

[Steve Cooke 💙Steve @stcooke]

You'll need Walcot OB for the car park mind have you asked?

[Old Sulians RFC @Oldsuliansrfc]

In other news, Old Sulians could be on the verge of announcing a new 30,000 seater stadium.

[Steve Cooke 💙Steve @stcooke]

At what was meant to be a morale boosting kick off the CEO's closing remarks were 'Work harder, work longer, or work somewhere else' - left in my head there and then. That was 1995. C'est plus ca change.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The most common mistake young founders make is forcing everyone to work 24/7 or 996.

Here's 5 reasons why:
– Very talented people, paradoxically, will work hard mimetically when they see people around them doing it, without the burden of compulsion. They want a carrot, not a stick.

– It alienates practically everyone >35 or with kids. Experienced people who can save you months of time in the future making good decisions in the present, not just blind velocity. The best engineers can get more done in 40hrs/wk than most in 80.

– The cost of losing someone good and familiar with your stack to burnout is far greater than the +20% hours. Two quarters of missed revenue, and it will hit your retention numbers.

– I get it. It takes hard work to will a startup into existence. Founders should put in the effort (you, after all, have 25-100x the equity of your employees) and set the bar for what's expected. Reward those who meet the bar, remove those who don't.

– Freeing up the compulsion to work all the time allows the best people to have fantastic ideas. Ideas need time to breathe and blossom.

There are always exceptions, but generally you don't build generational companies with a slave-driver mentality. Culture is important. You want your employees to love their job and tell their friends that. Early engineers at companies like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic worked because they wanted to, not because they were forced to.

Build a culture where people want to work hard. Don't force them to.

[St Mary's OB RFC Touch @StMarysOldBoys1]

A fabulous evening hosting Frampton last night 😍
Great touch , great people, sunshine ,music & a bit of socialising afterwards 🍻 what more could you want from a Monday eve 🤷‍♀️????

[Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry]

Mary Miske, an SOE operative (possibly SIS), was arrested in Budapest in 1942. The British government secured her release through a rare Axis POW exchange.

Fluent in five languages, she supplied vital intelligence on Nazi operations from Istanbul, contributing to the only known WWII spy swap.

Codenamed 'Agent Fruit', she endured 13 months in Gestapo prisons and nine years in the Soviet penal system.

She lived to 86, passing away in August 1980.

[Steve Cooke 💙Steve @stcooke]

Let's go to Pau 🤞

[Bristol Bears 🐻 @BristolBears]

🍷 @UBBrugby
⛰️ @SectionPaloise
🔴 @scarlets_rugby
🐂 @BlueBullsRugby

Our @ChampionsCup pool 4⃣ opponents are locked in 🔒

Location, dates and KO times TBC 📍

[Steve Cooke 💙Steve @stcooke]

You know RugbyPass isn't working right?

[England Rugby @EnglandRugby]

9' | ENG 0-10 FRA

Hugo Auradou scores France's second.

Conversion missed by Le Garrec.

#ENGvFRA

[Steve Cooke 💙Steve @stcooke]

Oh dear what a missed opportunity- be interested to known the metrics for scaling and who signed off such a poorly estimated number - next time give it to a competent broadcaster - @EnglandRugby some updates on X ? Maybe clips of the action? RugbyPass not fit for purpose

[England Rugby @EnglandRugby]

All the action - live and free on RugbyPass TV!

Don't miss England XV v France XV, kicking off at 15:15 BST

Click below for all the info on how to sign up and watch the match 👇

[St Mary's OB RFC Touch @StMarysOldBoys1]

A huge effort from all the players who took to field yesterday eve in the scorching heat 🥵 👏.
Thanks to Frampton for hosting us & congratulations on playing your 1st ever game against another team 👏 we look forward to welcoming you back to Trench lane very soon 😍

[#GRFU @GRFUrugby]

Nice to see @FramptonRFC & @StMarysOldBoys1 getting out for a game of inclusive touch rugby last night.
Things you love to see 🏉

[Steve Cooke 💙Steve @stcooke]

Top job Geoff thanks so much for helping make it such a great evening 💚🖤👏🍻 and top auctioneering 💰

[Geoff Twentyman @geoff20man]

🏉🎤🥳🙌 Absolutely loved hosting @SMOBRUGBY 125th anniversary dinner. 350 in the room and so many top, generous people. Raising over £12,000 in the auction was incredible. Brilliant to catch up with Liam O’Keefe a truly inspirational guy ❤️

[Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory]

May 22nd 1982: The Ajax Bay Field Hospital - otherwise known as "The Red & Green Life Machine" - is established at Ajax Bay under Surgeon Commander Rick Jolly. It will go on to save countless lives on both sides throughout the war, in an amazing feat of military medicine.

[St Mary's OB RFC @SMOBRUGBY]

125 Charity Weekender 30-31 May - Tickets £5 only pp Now Available #Pitchero
https://t.co/5A79JshsmG

[The Unconventional Soldier Podcast @TheUCS473]

Brigadier Aldwin Wight (retired) statement on prosecution of NI veterans.

"As a former Commanding Officer of 22 SAS, who has served at all levels in Northern Ireland, I am left with no choice but to make a public statement."

[St Mary's OB RFC @SMOBRUGBY]

Chris Dagger - Club Stalwart #Pitchero
https://t.co/XQPrf2UQPH