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“The best we can do is keep asking for help and accepting it when you can.  And if you keep doing that, you’ll always be moving towards better”.  - Higgins (from Ted Lasso) #TedLasso

@BroncoSportsFB @BroncoSports Best looking field in football!

Putting the final touches on the new Blue 🔵 #BleedBlue | #BuiltDifferent

@Jay_Tust Go Blue!

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we’re 59 days from packing this place and watching #BoiseState football again.

@kejca Happy birthday, Kevin.

@kejca Also terrific while reading the annual letter and Qs

Can’t think of a better birthday present than 1.5 pounds of peanut brittle.

@bkheywood Brian, Thank you for all your efforts along with others to bring a rational voice and dialogue regarding economic and social policy in Washington State.

Repeal the Income Tax Initiative Update Week 2 165K + signatures in just two weeks 17,000 + number of requests for signature sheets 17,000+ signature sheets mailed out (they are just now starting to hit mailboxes so keep a look out if you ordered sheets) 308,911– number of signatures we need to turn in by July 2 699,098 - Record for most signatures ever gathered in WA 700,000 - our goal Order sheets letsgowa.com/request_sig_sh… Find a location data.letsgowashington.com/stop-the-incom… Find an Event letsgowashington.com/events/

@Greg_Speicher Shareholders are running a marathon and JANA thinks it’s only a sprint. Stay the course. $MKL

JANA Partners Sends Letter to Markel Group Board of Directors prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

@CompellaSearch We have 2 kids there, the area beautiful, people are polite/friendly/helpful - the echo of small town values.

Visiting family and love the view - downtown Boise Green Belt by the river and Eagle, Idaho! Sunny, vibrant growing areas, friendly people and looks beautiful like Bellevue, WA! Lots of ex Washingtonians down here! CA too. 😁

@HiddenMonopoly I’m missing a couple!

Books every investor should read

@pmarca Absolutely fantastic work. @RobertGHagstrom

This is the way.

@BrandiKruse Does this violate equal access?

After 15 years covering the Washington State Legislature, I was just denied a press pass. Why? Because I have taken the public position that girls should not be forced to compete against boys. I am one of the longest-serving political reporters in the state. I have never acted unprofessionally at the statehouse. I ask serious, well-informed questions and provide coverage for many Washingtonians who feel unrepresented in mainstream news coverage. To make matters worse, legacy media representatives with the Capitol Correspondents Association conspired with Democrats in the House to weaponize an outdated policy to keep me (and other new media professionals) out. Let me be clear: Legacy news reporters took the side of politicians over the public. Rather than help expand political coverage for all by welcoming independent media into the fold, they pushed for LESS press freedom, not more. They played gatekeeper. Not only to help their struggling outlets survive by keeping out the competition, but to help the Democratic Party in power keep out critical voices. Yes, independent media in Washington state is overwhelmingly conservative. There is a reason for that. There is a reason more reporters are leaving legacy newsrooms to do what I did in 2021. Too many local newsrooms cover stories from a progressive worldview. They increasingly shut out 40% of the state and parrot the views of the party in power. Offering my informed opinion on policies should not preclude me, or others, from having access to the spaces we need to be in to do our jobs for the citizens who depend on us. To shut us out is to shut them out. I have advocated for a simple policy to govern press passes in Olympia – one based on decorum. If reporters can abide by reasonable decorum rules, they should be allowed a press pass. Podcasters. Bloggers. Columnists. YouTubers. Everyone. I invite my friends (and enemies) in legacy news to show a united front and stand up for press freedom, as I have done consistently for years – even when it meant criticizing my own side. If the goal is to hold elected leaders accountable, expanding old rules to welcome in more voices and more perspectives is the answer. If the goal is to shut out anyone who might challenge Democratic leaders, then I guess the policy should stay the same.

@Anthem_Singer @ChicagoBears @RamsNFL So awesome, Jim!

Bears fans, As loud as you were for opening day this year, as much energy as there was in the stadium, do you think Sunday you will be even louder when we rock the anthem for the @ChicagoBears vs @RamsNFL game? I bet so and I can’t wait!! #gobears #beardown

@ValaAfshar Save voicemails, comedy they will be a great comfort and wonderful memory of they very of your life.

consider yourself very lucky to get these calls

@Giuliano_Mana Shoe Dog by Phil Knight.

Cool, business school has arrived.

@morganhousel Congrats, Morgan. You are doing good work in the world.

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@IMS @Anthem_Singer Bravo, Jim! Bravo!

We’ve waited all year to hear this 🥹 It's @Anthem_Singer with “Back Home Again in Indiana” before the #Indy500! #INDYCAR | #ThisIsMay

Incredible day!

@ChrisBloomstran Chris, thank you for taking the time to highlight and share. You maintain the ethos of stewardship that should be the standard.

The CFA Institute is no longer the outstanding organization it was when I joined upon earning my charter 31 years ago. If you are a CFA charterholder and have not yet voted your proxy (deadline this Monday the 21st at noon Eastern) or may consider changing your vote, or are simply interested in an opinion as to how a once-great advocate for financial education, advocacy and ethics is failing a large proportion of its membership, please read on. Please also resend this message. I’ll get to the important proxy vote and bad governance on display shortly, which I hope all charterholders take the time to vote, but first, many likely saw the CFA Institute’s Chief Marketing Officer “allegedly” embezzled nearly $5 million from the Institute from 2016 to 2024, including $150k for an engagement ring, and another $1 million from another employer. He was indicted on June 23 by the Manhattan DA. Despite immediate media coverage, the institute waited more than two weeks to address the disaster with its membership and on July 8 finally sent an incredibly tone-deaf email update from its President and CEO, Margaret Franklin, CFA, paid $1.4 million compensation by the Institute in 2024. The accused embezzling CMO was earning $500k annually. The message took zero accountability, other than suggesting it would do better. As an institution that holds itself out as an exemplar of ethics, integrity, and that administers the CFA examination program, which focuses on accounting, financial statement analysis and ethics, among other subject matter, a failure to detect fraud over eight years is beyond a financial-controls black eye. It serves to destroy the CFA brand, already under assault from the way the organization sitting atop the membership and local member societies is managed and governed. The CFA membership received another email message from President and CEO Franklin three days later on July 11 which encouraged the members to vote their proxies. They need a quorum. Franklin is an infrequent direct communicator. I find only a New-Year’s message over the past two years from her in my inbox. Franklin’s urge to vote notes, “By voting, you and or your colleagues around the world will be electing a chair, vice chair, and governors to serve on the Board, and additional proposals related to Board governance.” The “additional proposals” the President and CEO FAILS TO DISCUSS are bylaw changes serving to grotesquely strip the membership and local societies of representation. The members and societies are the bedrock of the organization and for whom the President and CEO serves, and this year’s proxy initiatives are a perfect illustration of governance gone haywire. The proposals are an embarrassment to the Institute but more importantly to all 211,000 CFA charterholders globally. Specifically, proposals 1a, 1c, and 1d shift the election of the Chair and Vice Chair from the membership to the current CFA Institute Board, concentrating power within the Board and diluting the perpetually diminished role that members and societies play in shaping the direction of their global association. The proposals erode membership democracy, weakening transparency and member engagement in governance decisions. I voted AGAINST. Proposal 1e merges the Nominating and Governance Committees, restricting its composition to only current Governors. This removes multiple non-Governor perspectives, including two from the membership’s elected Presidents Council Representatives, PCRs. It is obscene that the current Board would introduce a proposal to self-select nominees to serve on the Board. Of course a one-sided, like-minded Board will work to perpetuate itself. Stunning. Between the four proposals the Board nominates itself and solely elects its Chair and Vice Chair. I voted AGAINST. 1/3

@ChrisBloomstran @WashUMedOrtho @washumedicine Wow Chris, you are as resilient as $brk, built to last.

If Warren Buffett is the G.O.A.T of investing, Dr. Ryan Nunley is the 🐐 of orthopedic surgery. Thanks from the bottom of my heart to the world-class team at @WashUMedOrtho. My 2nd hip replacement in 19 months today. Arrived at 6:10 AM, surgery at ~9:10, walking at noon, home at 2:30. Dr. Nunley and his orthopedic surgeon colleagues at Wash U are surrounded by an extraordinary team - quality of care but also an obvious desire to provide exemplary service with an infectious love of what they do. The gold standard for bedside manner! Surely I’m missing too many to mention individually but kudos to Dr. Nunley’s two amazing nurses Stephanie and Kelly; Anesthesiologist Dr. Khodamoradi; Fellow Dr. Turner; PACU RN Michelle; Pre-Op RN Andrea; CRNA Carly; RN Circulator Shona; ST Scrub Ashley; CRN FA, RNFA Samantha; RNFA Floyd; RN Circulator Mindy; Block RN Joy; Notary Daniel; the admissions team and myriad others that made both hip replacements as successful and enjoyable as possible. Two hips down, one knee to go. I wouldn’t go anywhere else. 🙏 ❤️ @WashU

@rationalwalk Welcome back!

New Post: What I’ve Been Reading This post is a list of books that I read in the second quarter of 2025, including The Snowball, The Haywire Heart, Plato's Republic, and the King James Bible rationalwalk.com/what-ive-been-…

Fundamental dropped Shortcut, a "superhuman" spreadsheet agent, in early preview It one-shots most knowledge work tasks on Excel, also scoring >80% on Excel World Championship Cases in about 10 min. That's 10x faster than humans