Lee Grigsby

[Lee Grigsby @uncleL_GOAT]

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[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

For Frances Tiafoe, playing professional tennis was always the plan: “I’m the son of immigrant parents from Sierra Leone. When I was a kid, my dad got a construction job at College Park Tennis Club (home of the JTCC) in 1999, a new tennis academy in the D.C. area. When the construction was done, he remained at the facility as the maintenance man. While my dad worked, I picked up the game during nights and weekends at the facility when the other kids weren’t around. I’d hit against the wall by myself, mimicking techniques I had seen older boys at the academy do. I’d imagine I was playing against Rafa or Roger in the U.S. Open, that those guys were just on the other side of the wall. Some nights, my twin brother, Franklin, and I would even fall asleep on the massage tables at the club while my dad worked all night.

Eventually, I was accepted into the academy, and the rest is history.

But the whole story is actually a lot crazier than you think.

Even after I got accepted into the clinics, I played with hand-me-down rackets and gear from my wealthier peers, or used demo rackets the club supplied. I like to tell everybody that I didn’t choose tennis, tennis chose me — that I was built to play this sport — but that didn’t make it any easier for me. When I told people that I wanted to grow up to be a tennis player, they laughed at me.

My dad has always been supportive, but he was laughing, too. (‘If you want to do it, then do it!’ he’d tell me). My mom actively did not want me to play professionally. She and I fought about the decision for years, even after I turned pro and started making a little money — all she wanted for me and Franklin was for us to go to college, and I had earned my ticket anywhere I wanted to go. She had a hard time wrapping her head around that. On top of all of that, every kid I played with or against had more than me and would never have to worry about money or whether they’d be able to go to college. While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

I realized early that I could either sit there and be sad about my situation — which I did, plenty of times, wishing I was one of the other kids — or use it as a way out. I look at it like this: Your parents are your parents. You came up how you came up. You can’t change that. What I could control though was how hard I worked. I knew I had an ability to help my family and my community in a way that my peers at the academy couldn’t. No matter what they ended up doing after tennis, they were going to be fine. For me, there was so much more at stake.

Tennis was my way out.” https://t.co/u7iVV4eUhj

@FTiafoe | @usta | @atptour | @usopen

[Ed Greenberger @EdGreenberger]

For #Cavs fans who might not be sure they’re a better team now than they were last weekend, here’s what ESPN says: the metrics show they traded away their three worst players this season. #LetEmKnow

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

The snow/sleet is heavy, move it with care 📷

We’ve been reminding folks to shovel, and it’s caused a bit of a debate. A main reason we are pushing to do so early and often is that sleet is very heavy.

As of noon, D.C. had picked up 1.13 inches of liquid (melted snow/sleet) from this storm. That’s quite a lot in winter. If it was all pristine fluffy snow, it could be about 12 inches or more by now.

With consistent rates of more than 0.10 inches of melted sleet in recent hours, instead of inch-plus per hour snowfall, we’re seeing about 0.3 to 0.5 inches of sleet per hour.

Sleet is much denser than snow, averaging about 3 inches of sleet to 1 inch of liquid compared to 10 inches of snow to 1 inch of liquid.

The added weight is also a risk to shovelers. Heart attacks and other straining injuries are common when digging out. Some doctors suggest people over 45 shouldn’t even do it. If you’ve waited till now to start moving the stuff, do so with care and take breaks as needed.

But what about the potential of ice? Sleet offers some grip considering it is tiny raindrops that fully froze before reaching the ground.

Freezing rain — which may be a problem for a time later today — can make a sleet-surface slick regardless, but ice melt will help.

Temperatures should head into the 20s late day and might stay there much of the night. Monday will feature readings well into the 20s and sun.

You’ll want to melt and move as much as possible before deep cold sets in again Monday night.

(map as of 1245p)

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

Sleet is inevitable Sunday. Here’s why we don’t want freezing rain.

Snow will change to sleet on Sunday — there’s no getting around that. Sleet is made of tiny ice pellets — partially melted snowflakes that refreeze near the ground. They’re slippery, but the good news is sleet tends to bounce off trees and power lines.

The bigger concern comes later, when sleet may change to freezing rain — droplets that freeze on contact. Freezing rain is dangerous because it glazes everything, including trees and power lines. If enough accumulates, power outages become a real risk.

Think of the difference between sleet and freezing rain as the difference between a sprinkled donut (sleet) and a glazed donut (freezing rain).

We expect sleet could transition to freezing rain late Sunday afternoon and evening, especially east and southeast of the Beltway. If icing becomes heavy enough, some outages are possible.

[Just a girl @dammit_amy]

You don’t have to unfollow me, I’ll show myself out.

[Dave Kline @dklineii]

Don't be distracted by the layoffs in middle management. Over the next 10 years, managers will be more important than ever.

But like every other role, their work will transform.

The next decade of management belongs to systems thinkers. Leaders who engineer organizations where human creativity and machine intelligence work as one.

Not people using tools, but a system of peers:

HYBRID TEAMS
• AI handles repetitive, structured, data-driven tasks
• Humans own creative, strategic, relationship work
• The best teams intentionally blend both strengths
• Person or machine? become person + machine

SCALED JUDGMENT
• Humans architect decision frameworks, AI applies
• AI maintains institutional knowledge in playbooks
• Analyze patterns in your best decisions to update
• Turn one-time solutions into repeatable systems

AUTOMATED ACCOUNTABILITY
• Track commitments and surface gaps automatically
• Build dashboards showing real-time progress
• Let machines monitor, humans coach
• The best systems run themselves

ENGINEERED GROWTH
• Match performance data to development opportunities
• Generate personalized coaching based on individual patterns
• Adapt training to each person's style and mastery
• Micro development is continuous, not annual

OPTIMIZE FOR CYCLE TIME
• Use AI for rapid prototyping and testing
• Run batches of quick experiments with low risk
• Surface problems early through feedback loops
• Get better with each iteration

EMBRACE IMPERMANENCE
• Form tiger teams around specific challenges
• Assemble, perform, systemize, dissolve
• Move away from permanent rigid structures
• Collect experiences, not titles

SYSTEMS, NOT SILOS
• Build small agile teams with loosely coupled "APIs"
• Optimize for the whole, AND the parts
• Understand how changes ripple through the organization
• Connect the dots across more functions

The AI age will reward managers who design systems where humans and machines amplify each other.

We're no longer managers.
We're engineers.

What did I get wrong? What did I miss?
Tell me in the comments.

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[Tom Roussey @tomroussey7news]

The military is doing a series of flyovers over DC right now, just captured this video from Reagan National Airport.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This video will change your MINDSET ‼️‼️

[Charles Allen @charlesallen]

And since some folks can’t/won’t read it, they missed that this massive hit to our local economy is comparing August 24 to August 25. This drop is after already accounting for a slower August.

[Charles Allen @charlesallen]

This tracks with alarming data showing visits to downtown have fallen by nearly 20% - or 16,400 fewer visits a day - from where it was before Trump takeover. I hear same in neighborhood corridors.

Trump's occupation is killing the local economy, same as he’s doing nationally.

[Eleanor #DCStatehood Holmes Norton @EleanorNorton]

The Trump administration has deployed more than 2,000 National Guard troops to DC who are wholly unaccountable to DC residents.

I introduced a critical bill to require them to follow the same body camera requirements that MPD officers do.

Details: https://t.co/QVzrdnRa3r

[Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 @ArthurDelaneyHP]

Moped delivery drivers disappearing from DC streets under Trump’s police takeover — which is looking more like an immigration crackdown than anything else

https://t.co/aMcv2irHzk

[Charles Allen @charlesallen]

Say it a little louder for the folks in the back. This is only about power and control. Full stop.

[KMNONSCENE @KMNONSCENE]

AGENTS GRAB AN INDIVIDUAL BY THE COURT BUILDING

This morning, in Northwest Washington, between 6th and 7th Streets NW, a silver truck made a left turn. Three masked individuals who appeared to be police officers, exited the truck and apprehended a latino male from the vehicle before driving away.

[Charles Allen @charlesallen]

Another lie from the White House. Since they put these federal agents out across neighborhoods I’ve heard from many restaurants that business is starkly down - customers & staff concerned about the harassment by agents they’re seeing on streets.

[Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 @ArthurDelaneyHP]

Vermont's Republican governor isn't silly enough to send troops to DC:

"In the absence of an immediate emergency or disaster that local and regional first responders are unable to handle, the governor just does not support utilizing the guard for this purpose"

[KMNONSCENE @KMNONSCENE]

ICE agents were present at 1600 Harvard Street N.W. to apprehend an individual.

[Sports Illustrated @SInow]

Denzel Washington sounded off on sports media talking heads 👀

[Lee Grigsby @uncleL_GOAT]

@GetUpESPN @Espngreeny HOW you gonna have a top 5 1 & done list for college players and NOT have Melo at number 1? Syracuse won the National Championship!!! BRO what??? 👀🤦🏾‍♂️

[Lee Grigsby @uncleL_GOAT]

@pinkmagiclala Lena. Layla. Lea. 🤷🏾‍♂️