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I wrote a piece about the K-State Chem-E-Car team for the @kstatecollegian. Check it out! buff.ly/1SRIOaD

The K-State Collegian, celebrating its 130th year in 2026, earned a 2nd Place finish in the College Media Association Organizational Pinnacle awards in Washington D.C. Second in the nation. It’s the highest mark The K-State Collegian newspaper has earned in the last decade.

In this week's Kansas Profile, the story of the hit Christian music band Cloverton, and its humble beginnings in Manhattan. extension.k-state.edu/news-and-publi… #KSRE #ksleg

@ddkuester Regretting that my engineering schedule fell in such a way that it prevented me from taking that class with you.

Posting my favorite TEVAL comment for the semester - pleased that in my 21st year at K-State I’m still getting my best evaluations ever. This is from Sports Econ.

After reading through the 33-page term sheet for the Chiefs' new stadium in Kansas, I think it's one of the most lopsided stadium deals in NFL history. Kansas is essentially giving the Chiefs $3 billion (stadium funding + mixed-use development funding + tax incentives), yet getting virtually nothing in return. The Chiefs get to keep 100% of the revenue from all stadium activities, including ticket sales, concessions, sponsorships, naming rights deals, personal seat licenses, and more. That applies to NFL games and all other events (concerts, basketball games, etc.). Kansas will own the stadium, with the Chiefs paying $7 million in rent annually. But that money doesn't go back to the state; it goes into an account the Chiefs can use for renovations, repairs, and operational expenses. That means the Chiefs can use their own rent money to hire stadium security, parking staff, and concession vendors throughout the season. I know Kansas had to offer a great deal to get the Chiefs to leave Arrowhead, but this is worse than I expected. Here's a full breakdown of everything I found in the term sheet: huddleup.substack.com/p/the-kansas-c…

For a half-century, the Chiefs have transcended what separates us. On Monday, they drew the line themselves. Because the money always wins. And so do those already flush with it. Column on the Chiefs' move to Kansas (gift article): kansascity.com/sports/spt-col…

Our beloved @Chiefs are coming to Kansas! A new state-of-the-art domed stadium, to kick off the 2031 season. This is a total game-changer for Kansas. We’re making Kansas the best place to live, work, and raise a family. #ChiefsInKansas

Got our guy.

The Mercury has learned that Collin Klein will be introduced as the new K-State football coach Friday, and the plan is to have him appear Saturday afternoon at the men’s basketball game at Bramlage Coliseum. themercury.com/k_state_sports…

Gene Taylor says the state of college sports is a big reason for Klieman stepping away. Says if the industry doesn't get fixed, more good people like Klieman will keep getting pushed away.

Sources have told The Mercury that Chris Klieman’s retirement is set to be announced sometime this week. Collin Klein has been lined up to replace him. themercury.com/k_state_sports…

In 2015, the NCAA quietly made a tiny tweak to a 100-year old rule. Nobody noticed — except Kansas State, who designed a play that led to touchdowns every time. 10 years later, I'm tracking down the real inventors of the Tush Push before it gets banned: youtube.com/watch?v=OuF7Dg…

I've been looking for something like this. Makes my life so much easier...

Coach Kleiman is dang proud of this team Well I’m dang embarrassed of this team

@Shpigford @maybe Can I get my money back?

Maybe is making a pivot to B2B tl;dr @maybe is pivoting towards B2B financial forecasting + scenario planning The Problem We’re about 6,000 paying customers short of breaking even, with only around 200 paying customers currently, most of whom joined during the beta phases when the cost was significantly lower. We likely need more than 6,000 when you consider that many resources will need to scale up to meet the needs of that many more customers. The reality is that building a B2C personal finance platform is not only technically very challenging, but incredibly slow to grow, and we can’t tackle those challenges while creating additional features people might be willing to pay for within the next 10-12 months (our current runway). I no longer believe a B2C personal finance app is our best bet for survival going forward. The market’s needs are too fragmented, and the feature set is too far from becoming valuable for more affluent customers. I believe it either has to be completely bootstrapped for years or have $10’s of millions in funding to sustain and pour into growth. We’ve got roughly $400,000 left in the bank. So what do we do with that? The Solution We sunset the current version of Maybe. Again. No more giant B2C personal finance app. The economics just don’t make sense for us. We’re pivoting to B2B financial forecasting & scenario planning tools. Specifically, we're focusing on natural-language, generative-UI + UX for creating reports and answering questions. All business financial tools lean heavily on "power", which means lots of formulas, lots of complex interfaces, and spreadsheet inputs...this is why they go up-market, because onboarding requires teaching how to use the platform. This type of tooling typically requires someone with a background in finance to even begin to use them. But what if the UI were a simple text input? “Forecast runway if we added one new employee in 3 months at a salary of $150,000”. Not a chat input, but natural-language, generative UIs. It's something we’ve actually been working on over the past few months anyways and we’re now going to apply that to a business context. Anyone on a team will be able to use it because, to obtain the data they want, they simply write it out. Thank you, AI. The focus is on iterating quickly for a business customer base that will happily spend money to make money. Our thesis here is that the core must be helpful and generate revenue from day one and we’ll be focused on what I call hyperbuilding with that day-one-revenue coming by the end of August. FAQ • Why not just keep slow-and-steady working on Maybe v2? — We simply can’t afford to. While there are certainly other personal finance tools out there that are bootstrapped, they’ve spent years slowly building. We don’t have that luxury. • What about going AI + mobile first? — I still think that’s the best move for any new B2C personal finance app and it was something we were heavily pursuing, but we don’t have the runway to pull it off. • So this is a move to B2B? — Exactly. We’re now a B2B software company building a new B2B product. • What happens to Maybe v2, Synth and Detangle? — All shut down within 6-8 weeks to save on costs and extend runway. • What happens to Maybe’s OSS repo? — It will continue on for those that want to maintain it, but we won’t be putting resources towards it as a company in the short term. • What about paying subscribers? — We'll stop monthly billing and refund everyone's most recent payment. • How are we qualified to build this new B2B product? — Most of my 20-year professional career has been in B2B. Baremetrics was squarely a business financial app. Travis also works with many businesses on a CFO level, so he has unique perspectives and connections there. Our lead engineer spent years in FP&A at a large financial institution. In addition, all of us have been neck-deep in building financial tooling for many years now. • What’s the timeline here? — First B2B dollar within a month. We’re moving at hyperspeed. • What’s the first/core feature? — Runway forecasting & scenario planning. I know for many investors and customers, this will be both a surprise and a disappointment, as what interested you in the first place was a fresh take on personal finance tools. I'm sorry we won't be able to deliver on that. The road to success has a staggering number of forks in it. However, I'm personally extremely excited to get back to the B2B space, given my history there, and the team as a whole has a renewed sense of purpose and focus with this move with an optimism about success in a way that we've just not had in a long time. An annoying number of updates coming soon. 🙂

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

@ArtButSports @LeTour @mathieuvdpoel @charlylopezph Yes! Cycling!

@LeTour @mathieuvdpoel First part of the prose novel Lancelot du Lac, French, 14th century, 📸 by @charlylopezph

When you reallllllyyyyy want the handshake 🤝 #TDF2025 l @mathieuvdpoel

@NBCSCycling @ArtButSports reminds us of a Renaissance painting!

Primoz Roglic and Tom Pidcock involved in crash on the Giro d'Italia gravel stage. #GirodItalia

A Pope that “Ope’s” ❤️

I would’ve never gotten the opportunity to be at Kansas State if the 105 rule was in place. I feel for the guys who will be cut & the recruits who won’t have the opportunity to walk on anymore

@KStateWBB @kstatesports There’s no audio on the audio stream. ☹️

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