Nick Nolan

@bavedikian Did you watch football?

This week was brutal. I came back from the holiday to a massive, highly urgent problem. Only I could solve it. Delegating it wasn’t possible. It took over 20 hours of focused work to fix the problem, but there was no way to know how long it would take until the solution was found. When you already work at least 60 hours in a normal week, being forced to spend 20+ hours on something unexpected is highly disruptive and painful. I slept very little this week. I had an 8pm meeting yesterday evening, and I was so exhausted I took a nap from 6:45 - 7:15pm before eating dinner and taking the meeting. I finally solved the issue at 5:42pm this evening. When you’re scaling a business and there’s a problem directly constraining the growth of the business, you must attack the problem with unreasonable intensity until the problem is solved. Whatever it takes. No excuses. Nobody cares how tired or miserable you are in the process. Time to get some rest.

@bavedikian @moseskagan Brandon is the best real estate agent in the game

@moseskagan And unlike a bad haircut, your money doesn’t grow back if you lose money by using a residential broker to buy something other than a house

Using a residential broker to help you buy an apartment building in a highly regulated market is flirting with disaster. They generally don't know what they don't know.

@bavedikian Great status discussion

You don’t get to flip a switch and have a mountain of cash flow into your bank account when you need it. You get a mountain of cash by making a serious of choices years earlier that are likely to lead to that outcome. The sooner you start optimizing for the future instead of the present, the better off you’ll be.

@bavedikian You should try working instead of watching tennis and see how much work you get done

Men’s tennis is in a crazy situation. From 2004 to 2023, 66 of 79 majors (84%) were won by Djokovic, Federer, or Nadal. They won all 4 majors in a calendar year 7 times. From 2005 to 2009, they won 18 in a row. This level of dominance by 3 players over a two decade time horizon is INSANE. Now it’s a new era. When this US Open final ends today, that'll be 8 majors in a row won by Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz - every major in 2024 and 2025. But here's where it gets crazy: Djokovic is still in another league than everyone else in the world... besides Sinner and Alcaraz. Since 2020, he's only lost 2 matches in a major to players other than Sinner, Alcaraz, or Nadal. But at 38 years of age, Djokovic can no longer compete with Sinner or Alcaraz in a 5 set match. This shows how MASSIVE the difference is between Sinner and Alcaraz and everyone besides Djokovic. Unless Sinner or Alcaraz are injured, nobody even has a chance of beating them in a major. Alcaraz has 5 majors at age 22. Sinner has 4 at age 24. Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic all won their final major at age 36. There are 52 majors before Sinner’s 37th birthday. If he and Alcaraz split the 52 majors, he'll retire with 30 majors. If Alcaraz then continues his dominance until his 37th birthday, he'll retire with 37 majors. Sampras set the record at 14 majors. Federer destroyed it and won 20. Nadal passed Federer and won 22. And Djokovic passed Nadal and won 24. It was hard to imagine this level of dominance could ever happen again. But here we are. At this rate, the current records will be shattered. Will someone else be able to rise to the level of Sinner and Alcaraz to slow them down? Will they be able to sustain their dominance as long as Djokovic, Federer, and Nadal did? It'll be interesting to see!

JOC IN A PINCH TIES IT! #AllForTX

@allenanalysis Miracle if true

Greg Abbott just stood in front of the press, after over 100 Texans died in flooding, and said asking “Who’s to blame?” is the “word choice of losers.” Then he compared it to football. No, seriously. People are drowning, and he’s giving a locker room speech.

GET READY FOR A HUGE 4TH QUARTER LADIES & GENTS!

@DallasTexasTV What if their phone case has the 10 commandments on it

Greg Abbott signs new Texas law banning K-12 students from using cell phones during school hours

@FrontPorchU This must be a @NicoHarrisonGM account right? @_JoshHall

Top 50 Most Miserable Fanbases in Sports

@SportsSturm I think we need 3 more goals to win this game

Well it might actually be today.

@SportsSturm Bob I don't see a way they win this series in less than 7 games

I haven’t jumped. See you at Game 5.

@bavedikian Is Aspire moving away from social media?

Perfect is the enemy of progress, but low standards are the enemy of success. Elite performers find the balance. They move fast. They execute relentlessly. But they never compromise on excellence.

Thank you Nico

@grichhhhh @_JoshHall Name a golfer that looks like this when they try and hit a good shot and don't hit a good shot @_JoshHall

@_JoshHall @NicoHarrisonGM DINWIDDIE TIME IN DALLAS

31 points in the 1H @NicoHarrisonGM

@NotJackKemp Pilot breezy seemed off

our hosts today ordered Mr Jim’s for lunch, so I thought I’d re-up one of the more insane rides you can take online

@espn @_JoshHall big mad

HAMMER TIME 🔨 Billy Horschel is FIRED UP after tying the match with this clutch putt ‼️

@bavedikian Sounds like something chatGPT would say

Until I can use ChatGPT to complete anything even remotely complex without it saying "that's a good point", or "good catch", multiple times in the conversation, nobody needs to be worried about AI replacing their job. AI has much further to go than anyone thinks, and it will take longer to get there than anyone expects.

@P1AlexG @SportsSturm

That'll do

@Maverick_SZN @_JoshHall crazy how young he is

Happy birthday to Luka Doncic. He turns 26 today.