Austin Armstrong

@impactfbdata Shutup😂

The only P4 QB prospects since 2012 with a tight window 10+ yard accuracy rate > 40.00%, a turnover worthy play rate under pressure < 3.50%, and a pressure to sack rate < 20.00% in their 'best' college season.. 🔘 Joe Burrow, LSU (Round 1) 🔘 Baker Mayfield, Oklahoma (Round 1) 🔘 Drew Allar, Penn. State (Round 3) 🔘 Gardner Minshew II, Washington State (Round 6) Steelers QB Drew Allar is an NFL ready passer with no critical flaws in his production profile. He was one of the best college passers in the past decade at throwing into tight windows downfield and avoiding mistakes under pressure. He projects as a high floor NFL starter..

Counterpoint: it shouldn’t take a major event to get a city clean.

@jordan_ross_8F OS

I fully reverse-engineered Ramp's internal AI operating system. Their system — called Glass — is how they got 99% of their entire company using AI every single day. 350+ reusable workflows. Every tool connected at first login. Memory that refreshes every 24 hours. Automations running while everyone sleeps. I partnered with my engineering team and we broke down every component inside it. Then we rebuilt the whole thing for marketing agencies. 76 pages. Every system. Every layer. Every step. Steal it. Comment "OS" and I'll send it directly. Must be a following to receive auto DM

The future belongs to men and women of peace. Justice will always triumph over injustice in the end, just as violence will never have the last word, despite all appearances. #ApostolicJourney #Algeria vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

@kamal_razzak @binghott @iamshackelford @DenneyDara @sourfraser @MatthewGattozzi @pkennedy93 @thedennis @harrydelmege_ @heyitsalexP Strat

I interviewed all of the best creative strategists in the world. @binghott. @iamshackelford. @DenneyDara. @sourfraser. @MatthewGattozzi. @pkennedy93 @thedennis. @harrydelmege_. @heyitsalexP. (thank you so much guys, you're all the best) If you read this document you will be able to become, train, & hire the best advertiser/creative strategist in the world. I promise you that. Hiring and training creative strategists is one of the most expensive mistakes you can make if you get it wrong. So I asked the best in the world: what separates the ones who actually produce winners from everyone else. I wrote it all up in one doc. I put a lot of time into this and there literally 0 AI, just 14 pages of straight sauce. reply "STRAT" and I'll send it over.

AI isn't replacing teams; it's letting individuals operate like teams.

@BowtiedBum Work in healthcare

Ball Knowers: How do you identify the laid back chill white collar W-2 jobs? Jobs that are hybrid/remote, you send a bunch of emails around, low stress and give you time to build WiFi money?

@cbwritescopy D100

I made a D100 prompting doc that you feed to a Claude project and it conducts the entire D100 process for you > Find ICPs to target based on your service > Find contacts in that ICP, pulled from LinkedIn > Researches the prospect and their company - pulling from their website, blogs, social media > Crafts outreach messaging, personalized to the prospect based on their research > CREATES THE D100 DELIVERABLE FOR YOU !!! Takes hours of dream 100 outreach and condenses it into a 10 minute process Comment "D100" and I'll DM you the doc so you can feed it to your own Claude project

@drgurner @OpenAI So the ones being regulated writing the regulation is the TLDR of this one huh? Seems to be a conflict of interest in my opinion.

A very important document to start the conversation on the future of how AI impacts humanity & the case for a new industrial policy, by the team at @OpenAI Rather than reading "takes," always read the source document. cdn.openai.com/pdf/561e7512-2…

spent the last few hours answering questions from strangers on the internet while sitting on a plane and the thing that keeps striking me is how similar every question sounds once you strip away the context the BB analyst making $200K wants to know if his life has meaning. the 20-year-old in a frat wants to know if he is on the right path. the guy running a $15M environmental services company cannot sleep because his leverage ratio scares him even though his covenants are fine. the first-year law student wants someone to tell him the career pivot will work out. the immigrant who got laid off wants to know he is not falling behind permanently the details are different. the feeling underneath is identical. am I going to be okay we pretend that money and status and titles fix this. they do not. I sit in rooms with people who control nine-figure portfolios and they are nervous about the same things as everyone else. they just have more expensive language for it. the fund manager calls it "risk management." the analyst calls it "career strategy." the 20-year-old calls it "figuring out my path." same anxiety wearing different suits I watched a grown man worth more than most people will earn in ten lifetimes throw a tantrum in a conference room because someone questioned his assumption in a model. not his competence. not his track record. an assumption in a spreadsheet. a cell in Excel. he turned red and raised his voice because for 15 seconds he felt like he might be wrong about something and his entire identity could not absorb that possibility that is not a professional disagreement. that is a kid on a playground who got told he is not the fastest runner Schopenhauer wrote that humans are not rational beings who occasionally feel emotions. we are emotional beings who occasionally think rationally. the rationality is the exception. the feeling is the baseline. every framework we build in finance and in business and in life is an attempt to impose order on a brain that is fundamentally running on fear and desire and the need to be seen as competent by other people who are also running on fear and desire the most dangerous version of this is the person who thinks they have outgrown it. the one who believes that enough success or enough money or enough status has made them rational. that person is not more rational. they are less accountable. nobody around them pushes back anymore so the irrational impulses go unchecked and get rebranded as conviction and vision and leadership the best operators I know are the ones who understand that they are still unreasonable kids underneath everything. they lose their temper over small things. they take criticism personally even when it is constructive. they make emotional decisions and reverse-engineer a logical justification after the fact. the difference is they know they do this. they have systems to catch it. they hire people who are allowed to tell them when they are being stupid. they build in a 24-hour delay before any decision made while angry the worst operators are the ones who think they have evolved past it. they confuse pattern recognition with wisdom. they confuse wealth with emotional maturity. they confuse the silence of the people around them with agreement when it is actually just fear Nietzsche said that the most common form of human stupidity is forgetting what one is trying to do. I think the more common form is forgetting what one is. which is a complicated animal that learned to use spreadsheets but never stopped being afraid of the dark none of us outgrow being unreasonable. the question is whether we build a life that accounts for it or one that pretends it does not exist thanks for the questions today. you are all going to be fine. even the ones who do not feel like it right now

@chrisbriem @SamMacD86958750 Agree Sam, only problem is: - people want to work here (strong blue collar roots) - quality education is rampant in Pittsburgh, Pitt, CMU, etc - affordable housing is also available, but shifting. So I agree with Chris here, curious what the counterfactual actually is.

@SamMacD86958750 @Austin_2020 Unknown of the counterfactual is the question.

Pittsburgh’s post‑steel economy is a success – and a warning for other cities penncapital-star.com/commentary/pit…

@chrisbriem Can’t wait to read this!

Be bored more often. Reflecting on your thoughts and observing what your mind desires, without external input, provides a deeper understanding of yourself. We are overtaken by outside opinions through social media. Then we start to morph into our "Favorite Creators" instead of being our own "Favorite Creator."

“If you actually care about making an impact, you have a responsibility to get rich. Because when good people have money, the world changes.” - Zac Spencer Every time you “opt out” of your potential, you don't just hurt yourself & your family, but any cause you care about.

Everyone keeps talking about Taste. But nobody talks about how to curate taste. Taste is an understanding of trends, culture, and human psychology. Most people think their taste is embedded within, but that is false. People with taste have exercised that muscle by learning about good taste from the past. One way to start building taste is through Pinterest. One of the most underutilized social apps for building. Pinterest has the capability to help you learn and build your own taste by "Scrolling" and diving deeper into topics/trends. Give it a try.

Real-world exposure>Money This is not only partying/going out. This is traveling. Dinner parties. Friendships with intention. Being the guy who is always flexing but has no depth to their soul is a lost one. Something that has changed my perspective is: This is the least amount of money I will ever make in my life, so I might as well enjoy the time and those around me more. Balance, intention, and self-awareness for the things that actually matter in life will add more to your "Happiness Scale" than any amount of money has the chance to.

Noticing something with the current crop of 20 year olds: Your college experience was ruined bc of COVID, so you learned about how to make money online I think you all are making more money than we did when we were right out of school. Online money > investment banking & PE money That said, I think there's this big hole. By being robbed of a traditional college experience from COVID, you guys have less real friends than we did. I graduated college with ~50 best friends who are still my best friends today Despite having more money than we did at your age, it feels like you all keep chasing more & more money, thinking that is going to solve the hole It won't. You've already built a great foundation for wealth. You now need to focus on building a great foundation for the rest of your life. And that foundation needs to be great people. The people who will be the best man at your wedding. If you don't build your life the right way, no matter how much money you have, you'll always have a leaky bucket.

Most cities let market forces decide which neighborhoods transform. Pittsburgh made a deliberate decision: rezone the Strip District riverfront for mixed-use. Then watch what follows. What followed: a neighborhood that didn't exist, now full of the exact people building Pittsburgh's next chapter.

87.4% of Strip District residents hold a college degree. The neighborhood with the highest education rate in Pittsburgh used to be wholesale produce distributors and loading docks. Policy as product. One zoning change. Completely different city.

If you're an entrepreneur or community builder in Pittsburgh: The Strip District isn't just a neighborhood. It's a case study in how intentional city-building creates the exact ecosystem where builders thrive. And the people who built it are still here. → Follow for the next piece: Lawrenceville — the neighborhood that pulled off an even more dramatic transformation.

Here's the thing nobody talks about: The Strip District is proof that policy shapes demographics and not the other way around. The city made a zoning decision. Developers built. Educated remote workers moved in. Poverty remained low (4.8% → 7.5%), still the lowest in Pittsburgh. Designed outcome.

Ten years ago, the Strip District was industrial warehouses and wholesale fish markets. Today, it's Pittsburgh's fastest-growing neighborhood. Here's the data and the single decision that made it happen: 🧵