Jim Halpert

I’m not paying $300-500 for a pocket watch. I can pocket watch yall for free

Anything lower than where I am and UNICEF might have to step in 😩😭

Writer My Father’s Shadow Manager to Tems Co-founder Fatherland Co-founder Mother Africa Reigns Supreme (MARS) Head of A&R (Africa) Sony Music Publishing To name a few When I say my GOAT😮‍💨

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Ted Turner inherited a billboard company at 24 after his dad killed himself. By the time he died Wednesday at 87, he had founded CNN, built the world's largest bison herd, and handed the United Nations a billion dollars after thinking about it for 48 hours. In September 1997, at a UN dinner in New York, Turner walked to the podium and pledged the billion with no warning. It was one of the biggest charity gifts ever made. The US had fallen behind on its UN dues. The agency was running on fumes. The Foundation he created has since turned that gift into more than $2 billion for global programs. CNN almost died in the crib. It launched June 1, 1980 with 1.7 million subscribers, far short of what it needed to break even. Within months, costs doubled and revenues halved. Turner took new loans at 18% interest. The three big networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) called it the "Chicken Noodle Network" and waited for it to fail. Then the 1991 Gulf War broke out. Bombs started falling on Baghdad on January 17, but other networks lost their feeds within hours. CNN's three had a phone line that held up. They kept broadcasting from a hotel as bombs fell. Turner's instruction to his news chief on the war budget had been four words: "spend whatever it takes." For weeks, CNN was the only network showing the war live. State TV around the world dropped its coverage and rebroadcast CNN's feed. Over a billion people watched. Even the Pentagon got its updates from CNN. CNN was just the start. Turner bought the Atlanta Braves in 1976, put them on his superstation, and beamed baseball into nearly every home in North America years before they became good. The Braves won the World Series in 1995. He won the America's Cup, sailing's biggest trophy, in 1977. He bought MGM in 1986 for $1.5 billion, mostly for the film library that became Turner Classic Movies. He launched TNT and Cartoon Network. He commissioned Captain Planet, a cartoon about superhero environmentalists, to teach kids about pollution. Turner started buying ranches in 1987 and never stopped. He ended up with about 2 million acres, more than three times the size of Rhode Island. The bison herd grew to 51,000 head, the largest privately owned anywhere in the world. He started Ted's Montana Grill, a chain serving bison burgers, so the herds could pay for themselves. He sold his media empire to Time Warner in 1996 for $7.5 billion. The 2001 Time Warner-AOL merger then wiped out about $8 billion of his fortune in 30 months. By his own math, that's a $10 million loss every day for two and a half years. TIME named him Man of the Year in 1991. He once said: "If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect."

That dopamine spike you get from solving a difficult problem >>>

no importa en el lugar mas bajo que estes, no importa si tocaste fondo, siempre habrá una salida, una forma de crecer, hasta la muerte, toda derrota es temporal

Nigeria’s anyhowness, perfectly encapsulated in a 30 second video.

70 something year old man (allegedly) telling a majority 35 and below population that the debt he is crippling them and their children with is for their own good as “we” will work to pay it off. Who is we baba????

i randomly just go on TEMU, add stuff to my cart, and then go on about my day.

Set a personal record this morning. Most days lived in a row.

Brit: I’ll schedule the meeting for Monday, June 1st Me: That’s a public holiday in Kenya. I won’t be working. Brit: Really? What’s the holiday about? …

People with childlike excitement, I hope you never lose your sparkle.

I have a theory that it takes 2 full ejaculations to completely unbias yourself from a major decisions

Stressed reading it

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One of the wildest things happened with this club in 2024 when they gained promotion from National League into the EFL for the first time in their 130+ years of existence. They employed a Nigerian guy as a Football Analyst (Tactician), his name is Nathan Owolabi. You’re not gonna believe how he was employed 😅 Nathan Owolabi played a huge role in 2024 when he joined mid season to help them see things from different perspectives, via data analytics especially. In late 2023, Bromley did something very unpopular, they announced an opening for a Tactician (screenshot attached, the tweet is still up also), and they were gonna partner with Football Manager (FM) and Xbox. People did not take them serious. Nobody employs a back room staff that way, especially one without any real-life football experience. Nathan was shortlisted as top 3, he was really good with football manager. He was interviewed by the coach and assistant and he got the role. He resumed in January 2024 with 15 games left in the league. He was really welcomed, in fact, the manager introduced him to his staff that “this is the man that will get us promoted” (I’ll share the YouTube link in the comments so you guys can watch it, it’s really enlightening). Don’t forget they were in the National League then. Nathan did lots of analytics work, he analysed oppositions, how they played, using FM. Bromley were 2nd when he joined, they beat league leaders, Chesterfield in his first game, but struggled a bit in subsequent games. During these struggles, the head coach, Adam Woodman, needed to hear other perspectives. Nathan advised they play 3-4-3 instead of the usual 3-5-2, he’d analysed their set up, extra man, etc. They had an important game against Solihull, and the head coach gave Nathan the opportunity to present to the first team, he showed them the opposition’s set ups, how they build from the back, their danger man, etc. the players were impressed, but he was nervous as that was his first time. Nathan kept doing his thing and it helped them get play offs after finishing 3rd in the league. They beat Altrincam in the semis and Solihull in the final at Wembley. That was the first time Bromley got promoted to the football league in their history. Two seasons later, they’ve moved up to League One. I’ll be rooting for them in future.

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