todd utterback @tsmells

@davidsven Have you read “Breakneck”? Puts all the progress of infrastructure etc into perspective w. One Child policy (abortions, sterilizations, deaths), Zero COVID policy, etc. The “Lawerly” state protects freedoms. The “Engineering” state produces outcomes (at the cost of freedoms).

@Ryan_Holdaway That’s a great list 👏 I haven’t read or heard of SHANE, but it looks like I should.

@davidsven I had it as a kid. Couldn’t play football sophomore year. That’s when I learned how clever the writers of Growing Pains were - family in the show are the Seavers.

@davidsven @Segway compelling pitch

@teddyferrin @CadeKrueger I’ve been called tall. I’ve been called exceptional. Wanted to see if i was exceptionally tall.

Mastery in any domain. So compelling. Love listening to master teachers and coaches explain complex topics at that master-level.

Coach Dan Casey @CoachDanCasey

2 months ago

If you want to understand the level of detail required to Run the Football effectively in the NFL, watch the next 131 seconds from Sean McVay.

80 884 12K 1.4M 5K

@teddyferrin @CadeKrueger How tall is exceptionally tall? Asking for your tall friend (me)

@geoffjBYU The town installed a little traffic/car speed radar on our street a few weeks ago. I ran past it a few times and touched 16mph. I felt so alive. I could hold that, maybe, for 20-30 meters. These guys are doing that and a little more for a mile. Its a beautiful thing.

Absolutely ELECTRIC RUN A World Record A National Record Like 6 Personal Bests, a Season Best. The whole field was on fire and Josh Kerr absolutely torched the world record. Incredible run!!! Track!!!

@BlakeMcClary Great personal project!

@davidsven This is the way

Yet another paper finds that decriminalizing drug possession in Washington and Oregon caused an increase in overdose deaths. "Synthetic-control estimates show that both decriminalization regimes sharply reduced drug arrests and were followed by sustained increases in overdose mortality relative to matched counterfactuals. The estimates imply approximately 1,186 excess deaths in Oregon and 1,895 in Washington from 2021 through 2023. We also revisit the role of fentanyl supply shocks. A fentanyl-share control may partly capture enforcement-driven declines in non-fentanyl NFLIS reports, while alternative fentanyl measures leave positive overdose effects." nber.org/papers/w35427

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776.

Me and the boys pulling up to FIFA HQ to file the Balogun appeal

No alarm could wake me up as fast as the sound of my dog dry heaving

If USA beats you in the World Cup That country has to call it Soccer until the next World Cup New rule I just made up

I ordered a couple of Chipp dog ties after you sent this out. Paul Winston (Chipp Neckwear) called me this morning. The tie business has slowed down. He gets 1-2 orders a day for the ties. He woke up this AM to dozens of tie orders. He called me cause I'm close to where he has lived for decades. He wanted to know why there was a sudden surge in orders. I confirmed I wanted the order (he worried about fraud), I told him about the tweet, and then we spoke for 20 minutes! He talked to me about some fun men's fashion history and a great story about Tom Watson (IBM).

My wife, watching me write "H.A.G.S" on all 10 graduation cards after she bought the cards and gifts and wrote personalized messages on each.

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.