Mike Mudrey

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On playing the infinite game (reflections while on the beach): 601-group.com/journal/finite…

When Adam Nightingale took over, MSU hockey had 10 straight losing seasons, no conference titles in 21 years. He's now won three straight B1G titles in four years as coach.

@Spartans_Illo I would prefer to keep Illinois on the 4 and MSU/Nebraska 2&3

Here is the updated Big Ten Tournament bracket projection. UCLA's big win over Nebraska early this morning did not impact the top six seeds, but UCLA passed Ohio State and now projects as the No. 7 seed. MSU's odds for the No. 2 seed are up to 40%

Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn’t be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself “I’ll just get it done this weekend.” Review Parkinson’s Law in The 4-Hour Workweek and force yourself to cram within tight hours so your per-hour productivity doesn’t fall through the floor. Focus, get the critical few done, and get out. E-mailing all weekend is no way to spend the little time you have on this planet.

@steaakfriend Well. You don’t retract nicknames… they started calling him that when from 1998-2010, he went to 6 final fours, 7 elite eights, 9(?) sweet sixteens, 2 national championship games and won a national championship. That’s a ridiculously good stretch and hard to maintain.

Can someone help me understand something? “January February Izzo”how do you get that cool of a nickname if your last Natty came when the world trade centers were standing tall and you haven’t been to a final 4 or won your conference tourney in 7 years?

Find the idea of spending down assets in retirement pretty odious. Instead, am aiming to construct a portfolio of cash-flowing assets capable of supporting us, then passing those assets along to the next generation to help support them and their children.

Zoom out far enough and the future gets clearer. The mistake isn’t failing to predict next quarter. It’s failing to position for the next decade.

It’s much easier to predict: • AI will be more embedded in everything 10 years from now • Great operators will still outperform average ones • Experiences will keep beating commodities • Compounding will continue to look boring… until it doesn’t

It’s easier to predict the world in 10 years than in 10 months. Short term = noise. Long term = incentives + human nature + compounding. Most people obsess over next quarter. The edge is positioning for the next decade.

@joepohlen Too far away to be considered “near Traverse City” IMO

Honestly, the best value in Michigan vacation real estate right now? The condos at Shanty Creek near Traverse City. You can snag a 3 bed / 3 bath, ~1,700 sqft in paradise. World-class golf, plus a perfectly decent ski hill in the winter. All for around $350k.

Life is fucking electric bro. Don’t fall for the doomer shit. That’s for losers and normies scared of their own shadows. Walk around like God sent you and smile at everyone you see. Spread light and abundance. Build things and take chances. This is the best time in history!

If performance reviews truly improved performance, we wouldn’t need them on a recurring calendar. Systems that work don’t require ceremonial check-ins. Performance is built in the daily habits. Not the annual ceremony.

Early in your career, you’re paid to execute. Later, you’re trusted to lead. Eventually, your job becomes design. Design incentives. Design cadence. Design decision rights. Design dashboards. Execution creates growth. Architecture creates durability. Still building.

There are generally 2 types of LLM users, those that use it to learn everything , and those that use it so they don’t have to learn anything.

@blackflagcpl @xwanyex @moseskagan 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@xwanyex @moseskagan Generally speaking though Wayne is right. We have entered an era of scarcity whereas the 1990s were an era of abundance

I just completely reject that we are wealthier than we were 20 or 30 years ago in any way that matters. Whatever data seems to show that we are is very clearly not measuring what you want to measure. I don’t think burrito taxis matter. I think the phones have made us miserable. I don’t think the advancements in communication are important. I don’t care that the cars have more features. I don’t think any of this stuff matters like even a little bit. And I certainly wouldn’t trade my country for more of it. I think we long ago reached a level of comfort that’s sufficient. We aren’t hungry. We aren’t cold. We aren’t worked to death in fields. I wouldn’t trade my family for more stuff. I wouldn’t trade my country for more stuff. The people who see all this so-called material wealth and think that the opportunity costs are just too large to have children or that we need to give away the country to foreigners to keep the train rolling are in my view demented, deranged, lost. And their addiction to antidepressants and other mood-altering pills seems to confirm it.

I’ve got four kids and I’m not encouraging any of them to follow the “traditional corporate” career path. Not that I’m discouraging them from doing it - just not encouraging it. Of course, I’m also building my own company they can work at as a fallback plan…