Kyle Austin

Watching the Celtics brick wide open three-after-three-after-three to end their season and, likely, this style of offense in the NBA.

@TonyMassarotti to the May/June ratings..

Buh-bye…

@classicshirts @classicshirts if you need promotions / PR locally I’ll do it pro bono for a few kits 😀

@classicshirts Boston MA! Get out! Need to get you as a kit sponsor of our local amateur side 🙌

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@berber_jin1 AI era years are like dog years …

literally

@BostonWxConsult worst winter/spring combo, since?

Another day near 70° inland while the coast is stuck in the 40s with low clouds. Epic 🤩

Big get for #boston #tech

@beffjezos this made me spit out some water ha

Overhead in SF: "TBPN is just Cocomelon for VCs"

@julie_mo Welcome to the echo chamber

AI companies can’t figure out how to talk to the world because 100% of their comms teams are in San Francisco

@MikeIsaac @KFILE Not sure how Carl keeps a poker face working w/ Sara these days…

@KFILE what the fuck

Oh my God

@kevinroose The researcher reading the email at lunch in the park: youtu.be/DAYXlC59yWs?t=…

As always, the best stuff is in the system card. During testing, Claude Mythos Preview broke out of a sandbox environment, built "a moderately sophisticated multi-step exploit" to gain internet access, and emailed a researcher while they were eating a sandwich in the park.

NEWS: Anthropic's new model, Claude Mythos, is so powerful that it is not releasing it to the public. Instead, it is starting a 40-company coalition, Project Glasswing, to allow cybersecurity defenders a head start in locking down critical software. nytimes.com/2026/04/07/tec…

@dseetharaman @carlfranzen So it’s an ai market education buy

OpenAI explains its rationale a bit more on its Substack, saying the discussion about AI is "driven by scoops, but just as often and more constructively by ideas: the why, the how, and what’s next." (Bolds are mine) And later: "That’s why TBPN is so interesting and important. They’ve built a real presence not by chasing scoops, but by leading on ideas – exploring the why, the how, and what’s next." openaiglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/ideas-over-s…

@alexrkonrad What'd they have to say to you?

every tech podcaster about to call whomever they know at Meta "just to check in"

@EricNewcomer @austin_rief to me more tech industry distribution vs. PR tool.. to your point this is the AI echo chamber - it doesn't reach main street America or even most knowledge worker water coolers..and if it did - they prob wouldn't like it

@austin_rief is tbpn really well positioned to help the avoid that? they're well-liked in tech but isn't openai's problem outside of tech?

Giving up .01% of your company to hopefully have your CEO not become the most hated man alive seems like the greatest trade of all time.

@MikeIsaac For sure, but just distribution in general is so hard to figure out these days.. easiest remedy is opening up a checkbook..

OpenAI buying TBPN story is, to me, the biggest proof point yet of CEO frustration with mainstream media coverage of tech at a time when consumers are growing increasingly skeptical of the effects of AI on society i see this as a marketing expense nytimes.com/2026/04/02/tec…

@EricNewcomer The only answer they got to distribution these days is a checkbook..

Erik Torenberg to a16z Jack Altman to Benchmark TBPN to OpenAI three's a trend...

@Tripple____M @Nixo7vv Dembele has about 3 inches and 25 lbs on him, and way more powerful overall..

@Nixo7vv He's the closest thing to Dembele

This is what Lewis Skelly would look like in midfield

@stevemagness Good message, delivery still a little close for me..

Most people are getting this wrong. It's not being coached hard or soft...it's a coach saying the right thing at the right time to get them out of a spiral. And focus them on what matters. When you're in that spiral, your attention scatters. You're replaying mistakes, drifting into the future, losing the moment. Frese disrupted it in two ways. First, she walked directly to Okanawa, locked eyes, and forced her to focus and connect with her in the present. Second, she gave confidence AND agency. "I believe in you...But you've got to want this moment." This isn't my story..." She didn't say, "What are you doing...get your head in the game." Those feed the spiral, giving your brain evidence that it's all going wrong. Akin to telling a nervous person to "just relax." In our lowest moments, we need a signal that someone still sees what we're capable of. And then gives us the agency and challenge to go get it. She scored 7 points in the third quarter after that exchange, added 6 more in the fourth, and finished with a team-high 21. Maryland still lost. But Okananwa showed up. It was a brilliant display of snapping a player out of everything scattering towards catastrophe: "Really what that was, was a regroup moment for myself and her telling me she believed in me. Sometimes that's really all you need to hear." Research backs this up. Psychologists at the University of Amsterdam found that whatever emotional state coaches expressed predicted their players' emotional state and subsequent performance. Angry coaches produced frustrated players who made more errors. Another study of basketball players found that low to moderate anger targeted at a specific problem could improve performance. Raw, undirected intensity made things worse. Targeted intensity that was aimed at something solvable worked. Texas A&M football coach Mike Elko put it this way: "My job is to be calm and collected when they're frantic. My job is to create intensity when they're not intense. My job is to always be opposite the moment." The leader's job is the counterbalance. Frese saw her star's attention drifting when the moment called for focus and controlled fire. So she brought the intensity Okananwa wasn't generating on her own. Most people see the intensity and think that's the important takeaway. It's not. It's just one tool used in a specific moment. Frese said it herself after the game: "You can't have those conversations if you don't have a relationship with them." It's the relationship underneath that gives you the ability to use the right tool at the right time. Sometimes that tool is direct eye contact and I believe in you. Other times, it's taking a calm breath with and a reminder that I value you as a human, not just an athlete. Or, as I had one athlete request one time, "Just cuss me out in the last 400. Tell me it's worth dying for..." Sometimes you pull out the crazy if that disrupts the cycle. Know your athlete. Build the relationship. Then know when to disrupt the cycle and focus them on the work at hand.

@AndySwan Social study teacher and assistant coach of the middle school b ball team

POV: It's the first Thursday of March Madness and your social studies teacher is a legend.

Im starting to think people don’t really understand what a CMO does