Water Jackpot 

Land Jackpot

Energy Jackpot

Athleticism - Baseline minimum bar for: 

• Height: 6’ to 6’5”
• Hand size: 9+ inches
• Weight: 190-230 lbs
• Arm strength: 50mph+ top ball speed 
• Throwing range: 50+ yards
• Accuracy: 60%+ in HS and College
• Quick release: under half a second
• Baseline Lateral Quickness

The Invisible:

• The measurable (arm strength, speed, pedigree, flash you can see) is overvalued; the invisible is undervalued (endurance, intelligence, adaptability, self awareness, confidence)
• Beyond baseline athleticism, the invisible intangibles had the biggest impact on quarterback success.

The Environment:

• Coaching quality (think 2 of the great QBs in Tom Brady & Patrick Maholmes getting coached by 2 of the greatest coaches in Bill Belichek & Andy Reid)
• Coaching stability (system stability allows cognitive mastery and confidence)
• Talent (offensive line to block, receiving talent, running talent)
• Opportunity (QB slot opening up)

The Basics:

• “The game winning drives of Montana, Elway, Brady: what stood out was how mundane and obvious and simple they were. Like move the chains with slight throw to the running back.”

Double Click:

• Tom Brady is arguably the best football player of all time.
• Right before his first start as a QB in high school, he ran to his dad and said he "couldn't do it" because he had "forgotten how to throw". His dad calmed him down.
• Fast forward to his last year in New England 20+ years and 6 Super Bowls later. At the front of his playbook he’s written himself these self affirmations like “you’re the man”, and “you’re built for this”, “you love the big moments”. He’s written these things that he reads every day. 
• Playing in front of tens of thousands of people with many more watching and counting on you, failing repeatedly as all QBs do, and maintaining the confidence to make a tight throw under pressure takes a special combination of internal and external support.

At a concert I came across the opener John Butler. He played this song live - I’d never heard it before, but it’s about as great as any guitar piece I’ve ever heard. Two quotes from YouTube comments: “this song is probably the most perfect song ever made”, and “If I was forced to keep only one guitar performance on entire Internet and delete everything else I will keep this one”.

Germany 🇩🇪 

Throwback to Laura being in Oktoberfest news coverage 

Impromptu free concert in park by where Mozart was born

Switzerland 🇨🇭 

Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva 

Where it is:

• 17 miles in circumference straddling the border between France and Switzerland
• 100s of feet underground

Speed

• Particles are accelerated to 99.999999% the speed of light
• Means they make over 11,000 revolutions per second around the 17 mile circumference

Temperature 

• Cooled to about negative 450 degrees F, near the coldest possible temperature possible in the universe

Massive Components

• Over 12,000 components that each weigh up to 28 tons
• One of its detectors weighs 14,000 tons

Data

• Experiments generate more than 30 petabytes per year (equivalent to over 1 million blue ray disks)

Effort

• Took a decade to build
• 10,000 plus people from over 60 countries helped build it, with over 2,000 staff keep it running and many more scientists all over the world contributing to its experiments
• Constructed with incredible precision and using theories built up over centuries (like the ones written in this sculpture in front of the center)

Reducing sleep noise matters a lot for your health, sleep somewhere quiet 

The future of remote vs in-office work is still in flux and will not be homogeneous 

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Cool concept - used it on a trip recently and found it really helps get a feel for a new place quickly 

Cabbage -> Basketball, Apple -> Newtonian Physics, … what produce-inspired ideas have you had recently??

Finishing my June 2025 issue with these wise words:

Self-driving cars are here (the future is here just not evenly distributed) - every week one quarter of a million Americans take a Waymo in SF, Phoenix, Austin, or LA.

A self driving car will be the safest car on the road - every year 1.2 million people die in car accidents, while Waymo has had far fewer crashes than human drivers and no fatalities. 

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