Matt Colbert

@yoda_634 Ahh i went to Cayuga Heights Elementary, ugh. yeah, northeast would also have fed to a different middle school. Hmm

To my American friends, I asked my parents for old photos and more details, so here’s what I have. This class photo is from June 1992. My parents told me the elementary school was called “Northwest,” but I couldn’t find any school with that name. It’s probably “Northeast Elementary School.” I’m the boy in the bottom row (no mosaic). Ryan is the tall Black boy in the top row. If anyone recognizes the school, knows Ryan, or has any information at all, please let me know. #Ithaca #FindRyan

@lacherbauer BER isn’t a new airport, it’s Shoenfield and there aren’t escalators to the food court, take it from a formerly sweaty guy who overpacked

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Europe has continued to invest in itself. This is almost strictly a US-only problem. Spain built the 2nd largest HSR network in the world in record time. New metro systems continue to be built across the continent. Highways have been built across the new member states. Mega works like the Eurotunnel, Gotthard base tunnel, Øresund Bridge, Viaduc de Millau, have been delivered. New airport like Munich’s, Berlin’s and soon Warsaw’s are being built. Europe has been developed for longer, but its public works are impressive, well maintained, and updated to meet growth.

@lacherbauer Not to mention LaGuardia just went through an $8B rebuild and finished early. Munich is getting a new airport?

@yoda_634 Where in Ithaca did you live? Ithacan here, around the same age. I may know the Ryan

5歳の頃、1年間だけアメリカの田舎町、イサカに住んでいました。 ​日本での「50平米に5人暮らし」という激狭アパート生活から一転、父の勤務先が用意してくれたバカデカい家と、よりデカい庭は、子供の目には無限に広く、楽しくてしょうがなかった。 ​そこで同い年の友人ライアンと、彼のお宝だった「おもちゃの銃」で毎日のように遊んでいました。 1年の滞在が終わり帰国の日、空港へ向かう途中で忘れ物に気づき、引き返した空っぽの家。その玄関にポツンと、ライアンの銃と手紙が置いてありました。これが私の人生で最も古い「感動」の記憶です。 ​あの日から数十年。Xでのアメリカ×日本の盛り上がりを見ると、今なら彼に辿り着けるかも、と思い投稿しました。 もし再会できたら、あの日のお礼に「日本が誇る最高のおもちゃ」を贈りたいね。 ​#Ithaca #Cornell #FindRyan

@blueprintsmb22 Agreed entirely. What sounds good in an IC memo and CIM often doesn’t work on the shop floor or airpot apron. The overhead door/KKR example aside, people want predictability (tbh who doesn’t right now)!

My team has no desire for variable comp. I tried this early on as the finance guy. They want to paid weekly and on time and don’t care about upside I found. It was fine when weekly goals were hit and they were paid more. When we had light weeks, pple threatened to quit even if they got paid more the previous 4 weeks than they wld under the old comp plan the seller had

How it feels every time a Patagonia vested MBA comes to visit my factory to learn more about ETA (entrepreneurship through acquisition) after stints in banking and private equity and they start to provide unsolicited advice on how to improve my business

@blueprintsmb22 Hmmm, unless it has stoplights indicators of performance vs goal, YOY, YTD YoY, and it really should be in Tableau (kidding) I’m not sure. How does one “drill down” and “dig in”? I’m sure your team is excited to know how they track towards goal

@blueprintsmb22 Have you defined KPIs and built a dashboard?

@Austan_Goolsbee It’s a private business that pays the airport to operate the cart concession. Given airline profit margins and the demand elasticity of leisure-oriented air travel, it’s difficult to pass more costs on to airlines that impact all passengers, vs those who choose to use a cart

Because the carts could choose to work at the grocery store if the price doesn’t go up enough at the airport?

@rev_cap Feel like TR without the exploratory wars would popular. Ban elected stock trading, trust busting, etc

@ByERussell DIA vibes, how’s the train compare?

.@united CEO Scott Kirby has a big, bold, beautiful plan for Washington’s @Dulles_Airport that, no, does not include mobile lounges. Plus, a reminder of why we have the “temporary” Concourse C-D to begin with (thank you, Richard Ferris). byerussell.substack.com/p/united-enter…

@Classyrdncklady Would your parents be proud of you ?

@Variety Where are the tissues? Why is she doing a fake ‘counseling’ session for public consumption?

Savannah Guthrie broke down in tears during her first TV interview as she discussed her mom Nancy's disappearance possibly being her fault: “[I asked my brother] do you think it’s because of me? He said, ‘Well, I’m sorry sweetie, but yeah, maybe.’ But I knew that. I hope not. I mean, we still don’t know. Honestly, we don’t know anything. So I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom and somebody thought, ‘Oh, that lady has money, we can make a quick buck.’ I mean, that would make sense, but we don’t know... To think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me. And I just have to say, I’m so sorry, mommy. I am so sorry. I’m sorry to my sister and my brother and my kids and my nephew and Tommy, my brother-in-law. I’m so sorry. If it is me, I’m so sorry.” variety.com/2026/tv/news/s…

@drklausner Anectdata.

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@emilymiller @MurphyAJC @ajc onemileatatime.com/news/politicia… theguardian.com/australia-news… Truth is most politicians fly a TON so likely have earned their status, but that doesn’t get them VVIP service. They should stand in line with other Platinum/1K/Diamond/EXP members where security permits

@MurphyAJC @ajc Patricia — Great story! First I’ve heard this existed. Do other airlines do special perks?

NEWS that Congressional staff are not going to like- Delta is suspending its special congressional desk service for members of Congress until the shutdown is over. @ajc ajc.com/politics/2026/…

@rossiadam @MarioBandeleras Every Golden my parents had, rules got more lax. Skippy wasn’t allowed in the living room, Rylie wasn’t allowed on their bed/in their bedroom, Finn didn’t sleep on their bed, now Dooley may do what he wants (4 dogs over 30 years)

She is not allowed in the library, but now that she is on her last days the old rules no longer apply. I told her to follow me and when I walked in she hesitated and it broke my heart.

@rev_cap Little differentiation. You’re only as a strong as your stupidest competitor Transparent pricing (google flights, don’t @ me about bag fees)

@Ciaran28121971 What an amazing addition. You’re an amazing person for bringing Benny into your family

New addition to the family, Benny 🦮

@DaveEDanna Yikessssss. North/F terminal and prayer.

If Elon could get the TSA their checks before I fly out of Atlanta 5am Monday - id deeply appreciate it - my tsa pre check has expired 😅

@MCCCANM Can’t remember where I read about the Eastern L1011 crew that was in front of their company 727 at JFK, the quote was something like the L10’s flight crew had their feet on the panel hauling back and avoided impact. The 727 wasn’t as lucky.

My friend is referring to the crash of Delta flight 191 while on approach to runway 17L at DFW in 1985. Pilots kinda sorta knew about storms & microbursts, to include windshear, but it wasn’t taken so seriously. Flight 191 proceeded into a storm that had perched itself over the approach to the runway, following a LearJet that had landed safely before them. Flight 191 ran into heavy rain, which isn’t much of a problem, but then encountered a microburst & windshear. Airplanes need wind over the wings to fly. Then they fly at a precise speed on approach to avoid “stalling” (losing lift), but slow enough to land & get rid of all the lift after you do, stopping before running out of runway. If you’re flying into a headwind of 15 knots, and the wind suddenly stops, you’ve just lost 15 knots of speed & the lift associated with it. This happened to flight 191, but much, much worse. The pilots had noticed some speed fluctuations, and talked about it, making adjustments to the throttles to make up for the wind. They were keeping themselves on the “glideslope” to the runway…descending ideally at a rate of around 600 to 800 feet per minute, depending on your speed. Around 700’ above the ground, though, it wasn’t enough. They got caught in a microburst. In a microburst, it’s kind of like all the rain & all the cold air the Thunderstorm was holding onto just come dumping downward, all at once. In the same way a thermal will lift the airplane up, a microburst will push it down. You’re already slow for landing & there isn’t much extra lift for the wings to give if you raise the nose. So, at around 700’ above the ground (I’m not sure of the exact height) flight 191 went from holding the Glideslope at 600-800 fpm with maybe 1-2° of nose down attitude, to falling at 3,000 fpm with the nose pitched 30° up to try & arrest the descent. They had pushed the throttles up, then pushed them up to the maximum, but it wasn’t enough. The L-1011 “Tristar” jet touched down in a farmers field short of the runway. The landing gear held up, and the plane rolled along. It crossed state Highway 114 (the road my friend is referring to in his post), hitting a car & a couple streetlights. Fire began to enter the breached cabin; some passengers unbuckled their seatbelts to try and escape & were sucked out. The jet collided with a couple of water tanks & came to rest, torn asunder. 136 of the 163 were killed, as well as the driver of the car. The FAA took action. It ordered that all new commercial jets had to be equipped with “Doppler” radars, which can detect shifting winds & windshear. The jet then announces some variation of “WINDSHEAR, WINDSHEAR” when the Doppler detects it. If it’s present, that’s it…you go around. If it detects it on the takeoff roll, it’s one of the few things we’ll abort the takeoff for once past 100 knots. If we’re too fast to abort, we’ll push the throttles up & delay lifting off the ground until we can’t, building extra speed. Airports also got Doppler radars so ATC could spot the threat, too. Educating pilots about the threat became a top priority. The investigation revealed training was lacking in how to spot & escape from windshear. Now, every jet has some variation of a “Windshear Escape Maneuver”. It’s basically to go to maximum thrust, stow the speed brakes (which aren’t likely to be out) and pitch up to a known, steep angle. If that’s not enough to arrest the descent, you can increase the pitch until you are in & out of the “stick shaker”, meaning you are right above the stall margin. You leave the flaps wherever they currently are - changing flap settings might change lift, but it also changes drag & so it’s kind of an unknown as to what that will do here. You also leave the landing gear wherever it is, to include down…if you’re going to hit the ground, you may as well let them absorb some of the energy. There was one other microburst crash, in 1994. That’s the last one in commercial aviation.

@brandonaaragon @Gothamist If you look at director and above MTA salaries on LinkedIn they are fairly market for the requisite level of responsibility, experience running complex transit systems.

@Gothamist Nah. Automate the trains, carry out a forensic audit of the MTA, cut all executive salaries by 60% and enforce the fares and use the money to renovate these 3rd world looking stations. It’s time to completely overhaul the MTA.

In many subway systems across the world, trains are run by just one person. In cities like Paris, some subway lines are fully automated, without a transit worker on board: gothamist.visitlink.me/yQ4SSB