Scott Wolfe

As we head into the U.S. playoffs, latest stats suggest Team Blue is slightly more likely to take the title than Team Red. It’s close though and will likely come down to the wire. If this plays out, Team Red has a lot of major decisions to make in the off-season: possible changes to front and back office; key on-field roster changes; and possibly exploring new ownership structure. It’s no huge victory for Team Blue though. Both clubs will need to contend with similar challenges in the off-season: an aging roster; diminishing membership/booster numbers; growing competition from alternate leagues. Given these trends, it’s very likely that ownership teams and management representatives from both clubs will meet this off-season to discuss and revise terms for the league. There could be new media rights arrangements, a refreshed marketing framework, revised playoff structure for 2028, etc. There are various options to explore and no doubt some things will be contentious. However, with aligned incentives and increased concentration and overlap between the clubs’ ownership teams, there’s a good chance they’ll be able to settle on updated terms.

Thing is, this will get play in the clubs too. I’m pretty certain. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_23x8qIFO0/?igsh=MWNyaXo4YW9meTJmaA==

I remember House before House had loops; I remember House before the whole world knew. https://youtu.be/ZQZg35RKcHc?si=HNjnVKMuJEVUzAnw

I lived and worked in Washington DC on 9/11, 2001. I was with a global health organization focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. As the news from New York broke and the plane struck the Pentagon there were also a couple of loud blasts heard within the city. I’ve never heard confirmation of what these were, but we heard and felt them. Colleagues of mine in DC from Latin America, including several Chileans, were moved to screams, tears and sheer panic as all of this unfolded. The trauma of 9/11 (1973) and the Pinochet years were very much still with them. My Chilean colleagues were not alone in their reaction. Nicaraguans, Haitians, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, Venezuelans and other nationals also had their trauma-memory triggered. Bombs, death squads, foreign-funded bloody coups. It all came back on 9/11. Ever since 2001, on 9/11, my thoughts return to these colleagues, to the people of these countries — many of which a former U.S. President called “shithole countries” — and to all of the less remembranced “9/11s” of history. There are far too many. May our children know more peace in their lifetimes. https://youtu.be/-CW9jwUN8Jw?si=JbD6neD3Pr0Gbsro

IMHO, history will record the true hubris of the 2024 U.S. Presidential race as belonging to Republicans and anti-Democrats. So cocksure were they that “Sleepy Joe” would hand them the White House that they casually welcomed Donald Trump back to the throne, failing to appreciate that the bar he sets…policy-wise and as a campaigner (not as a human being, because that bar is extremely low)… is just inches higher than that of the opponent on whom they had set their sights. Trump looked like a Rhodes scholar and Toastmasters Golden Gavel Award winner on stage beside Biden (2024 version of Biden). Whether the Democrat candidate switch was by design or merely circumstantial, we may never know. Regardless, Trump is now revealing himself as the court jester he truly is. Not looking good.

Yup! 🍕

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Touché!

Hip hop, ya don’t stop. 🧡

Daily reminder. It costs you nothing. It will yield you emotional, physical and mental wellbeing. It will help you find common ground and shared humanity, even where there may be a disagreement. ✌️

A special 3am run this morning to wrap up my 12-week summer plan of one early morning 21km run per week, on top of my other runs/workouts. I may continue until the temperature drops further. These early morning sojourns have given me a much deeper sense of gratitude and clarity. They have given me a greater appreciation of the quiet and peace that can be found in busy places at rest, places that are typically bustling. They have brought into greater focus the nuances of pain that exists in our midst — the broken lives of people living on the streets, the substance-fuelled escape from pain and trauma, and more. They have also taught me to see and appreciate simple moments of magic and beauty, like crossing paths twice this morning with a baby rabbit that seemed to be on its own early morning running program along Lake Ontario. On the second of these two brief encounters, we stopped and looked at each other for what must have been 5-10 seconds as if to recognize something sacred in the other. Read what you will into this, but it was one of those moments for me when I sensed a higher power at work, a higher purpose for this life, a frequency that deliberately placed us along each other’s path. I’m grateful for all these experiences, these reminders, and the spiritual anchor that they provide in an otherwise hectic life. This universe wants us to be at peace, to find purpose, and to be of service. This truth is screaming to be heard and embraced amidst the noise and chaos of a tumultuous world which often seems to be spiralling toward greater conflict. I hope that I can increasingly be and become an instrument of that truth, a channel for the peace and abundance which all of us deserve to experience. Peace! Salam!

By the yard, it’s hard. But inch by inch, it’s a cinch. #YouCanDoIt ✊

Truth! 😂😂😂

Dispatches from persistent inflation.

Memories of my childhood. 1988 - 1992 battle for supremacy not just of Milan, but of Serie A and the world.

A little dose of badass! John Bonham would be impressed, I’m sure. https://youtu.be/91pz1E8pAOY?si=PkswzbdjWyh4cw9h

One of the most inspired, captivating performances I’ve ever seen. If only I could have seen it live. Do yourself a favour and watch it until the end. https://youtu.be/zA8hE50xJeE?si=tHuPHnnsI2yhaaU1

Be kind Be humble Stack sats

We regret to inform you that the Empire’s cancer appears to be inoperable.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is the most important #Bitcoin related podcast episode of 2024. It underscores — with data and thoughtful descriptions by nostr:npub1n3sjlzmhpu8rl56umtptc4lua6zkretq2p82yhytnmlcuq639vlqd0te5l — what many of us already sense and know. ✅ The most publicized narratives about who Bitcoiners are, are simply not true. This is even more valid when one looks beyond the U.S., Canada, UK, Europe, Australia at the global landscape of Bitcoin adoption/use. ✅ ~75% of the most publicized, most promoted, most capitalized Bitcoin content creation (via various platforms) skews very heavily to a small portion of the actual market of people who currently study and use Bitcoin globally. ✅ From a marketing perspective many of us — especially in the U.S., Canada, UK, Europe, Australia — are failing miserably to get Bitcoin adoption where we say we want it to go. Why? Because we are allocating more than 80% of our marketing energy to a small market segment (~10%) of which roughly 4 in 10 are already now Bitcoiners. If Bitcoin were a company and this was the marketing department’s record/approach, the entire department would be fired. I have so much more to say — and I probably will. For now, I’ll leave it at “please watch or listen to the episode” and take the messages to heart, particularly if you are a Bitcoiner in any of the regions I mention above (U.S., Canada, Europe, etc). Peace! Congrats nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx on the great run with What Bitcoin Did. 🧡 https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/who-owns-bitcoin