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@PackMensGolf @CoachBoA13 Congrats Bo!

🏆🏆🏆 The Pack wins the Michael A Marino Classic‼️ First win of the Bo Andrews Era! #GoPack🔴⚪️

@playgolfcollege Thanks. Helpful for father of rising freshman in college

What College Golf Is Actually Like Most junior golfers dream about college golf. Almost none of them know what it actually looks like. After coaching at Duke and Ohio State, and sending 165+ players into programs across every division, here’s what college golf is really like: 1. It’s a job. Early morning workouts. Film sessions. Travel weekends. Team meetings. The romance fades fast if you’re not truly committed. You are an athlete first, a student second, and a normal college kid third. In that order, most days. The players who thrive treat it like a profession from day one. 2. The jump is real. The gap between the best junior golfer in your state and the average D1 player is significant. Prepare accordingly. The speed of the game increases. The courses are harder. The fields are deeper. Most freshmen are humbled before they’re ready to contribute. That’s normal. Plan for it. 3. You will sit the bench. Most freshmen don’t play right away. How you handle not being in the lineup defines your trajectory more than your talent does. Coaches watch practice players just as closely as tournament players. Nothing is invisible. The ones who stay ready when they’re not playing are the ones who earn the spot eventually. 4. The coach relationship is everything. You will spend more time with your college coach than almost anyone in your life for four years. Choose that person carefully. A great coach at a smaller program will develop you faster than a disconnected coach at a prestigious one. Ask hard questions on your visit. How do you communicate with players? How do you handle conflict? What happens when I’m struggling? 5. Teammates matter. You travel with these people. You compete with them for spots. The culture they create will shape who you become. Talk to the players on a visit without the coaches present. They’ll tell you the truth. The best programs feel like families. You’ll know it when you walk in. 6. Academics are harder than you think. Golf travel means missing class, managing makeups, and studying on the road. This is not optional. Programs that don’t support your academic success aren’t programs worth attending. Ask about graduation rates and academic support before you ask about the practice facility. 7. It’s a short window. Four years goes fast. The players who are present for the journey enjoy it. The ones always looking ahead miss it. Freshman year feels long. Senior year feels like a weekend. The players I’ve coached who were the happiest competed hard and stayed present. Both. At the same time. 8. Not everyone turns pro. The goal of college golf is not the Tour. It’s becoming the best version of yourself as a player and a person. Keep perspective. Less than 1% of college golfers play professionally. Plan your four years around the 99%. The discipline, teamwork, and work ethic you build will pay dividends for the next 40 years of your career. That’s the real return on investment. 9. The right division matters more than the prestige. Playing every weekend at a D2 program beats riding the bench at a D1 program for four years. Fit is the most underrated word in recruiting. Academic fit. Cultural fit. Geographic fit. Golf fit. I’ve watched players thrive at NAIA programs and wither at Power Five programs. The division does not predict the experience. 10. You have to want it. Coaches can feel the difference between a player who chose their program and a player who settled for it. Be somewhere you chose. Motivation borrowed from your parents doesn’t survive the first hard stretch of college golf. The players who last are the ones who chose the game, chose the school, and chose the grind. All three. On their own. The dream is worth chasing. Just make sure you understand what you’re chasing.

Let’s go Quinn!

Just saw this on X. Congrats big guy.

welcome to the squad, Quinn 🤝🏌️‍♂️ 📰 - santaclarabroncos.com/news/2026/1/29… #StampedeTogether

Travel well, Bobby

"It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir. He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones..." 🖤 rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

I am so profoundly saddened by the loss of Bob Weir. But so grateful for all the music, for all the joy, and for all the peace he brought to this world. We were lucky to have him with us. R.I.P., Bobby.

Wall Street Journal Washington State’s Tax Blitz Higher taxes led to more spending and deficits, so now Democrats are raising taxes again.   By The Editorial Board Jan. 2, 2026 5:27 pm ET   Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos may have seen the tax increases coming in Washington state when he moved to Miami two years ago. And he got out just in time as Democrats who run the Evergreen State—once a low-tax refuge—pursue a new tax-and-spend ratchet.   Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson last month pitched a 9.9% tax on income exceeding $1 million amid a $2.3 billion budget shortfall. Revenue hasn’t kept pace with the 60% surge in spending since the start of the pandemic, despite many tax increases. Washington’s constitution bars graduated taxes on income, though the state Supreme Court blessed a carve-out for capital gains. That means voters would have to amend the constitution to allow for Mr. Ferguson’s millionaire tax. Once the constitutional ban on graduated income taxes is eliminated, Democrats will inevitably raise rates and add more income brackets. That’s what happened in other states after they established income taxes. Washington is one of nine states that doesn’t tax ordinary wage income, which for many years made it attractive to entrepreneurs like Mr. Bezos and Bill Gates. But its business environment has rapidly deteriorated since Democrats gained full control of the statehouse in 2017. They swiftly raised the tax on real estate sales from a flat 1.28% to a progressive rate that tops out at 3% on properties over $3 million. In 2022 they enacted a 7% tax on capital gains exceeding $250,000, disguised as an “excise tax” on asset sales. The tax raised $848 million in 2023, but revenue fell by more than half the following year despite a surging stock market. Might the tax have prompted wealthy denizens to move or sell fewer assets? If so, Democrats didn’t seem to care. They jacked up the rate this year to 9.9% on capital gains over $1 million. They also raised the estate tax to 35% from 20% on estates exceeding $9 million. Washington’s estate tax is now the highest in the country. They also extended the state’s 6.5% sales tax this fall to business services such as advertising, website design and temporary staffing. Washington’s combined state-and-local sales tax, which can reach 10.35% in Seattle, is the fourth highest in the U.S. This latest sales tax hike comes on top of the state’s gross receipts tax, which has also increased. The gross receipts tax is applied to business revenue rather than income and punishes firms with thin profit margins. The rate this fall rose to 2.1% from 1.75% for service businesses with a surcharge on financial institutions rising to 1.5% from 1.2%. On Jan. 1, the tax increased by another 0.5 percentage-points on many large businesses, followed by another hike in 2027. Mr. Ferguson’s millionaire tax would slam small businesses organized as pass-throughs. Their owners could be forced to pay a 9.9% charge on income that flows through to them, on top of taxes that the businesses pay at the firm level on their gross receipts. Washington has lost 16,000 small businesses in the last five years. Do Democrats want to lose more? The Governor plans to spend some of the millionaire tax revenue on transfer payments to low-income voters. How about instead repealing progressive policies that are driving up their costs? The state’s cap-and-tax program adds about 56 cents a gallon to the price of gasoline. This summer Democrats raised the gasoline tax by six cents to 55 cents a gallon—among the highest in the country. Washington has fallen in the Tax Foundation’s tax competitiveness ranking to 45th from 33rd in 2021. Democrats in Olympia face stiff competition from the likes of New York, New Jersey and California. But at their tax-and-spending pace, they are making a run to the tax bottom. wsj.com/opinion/washin…

@Softykjr Yet another stinker against rams and 49ers. Sad.

This place is as loud as it's been in YEARS

We published this today. Phenomenal analytical work to understand how things could play out. give us 1,000 retweets and 5,000 likes, and we make it publicly available and do a space to discuss findings first week of Jan.

@nikunj That’s good

Life doesn't have a framework, and neither do startups..

“Now imagine that talent is available 24/7, on demand, and can be deployed in parallel at scale….” Is there anyone doing this today in healthcare rcm transactions with major enterprises?

This!

The distance between AI’s promise and its delivery is wider than most leaders can see at first glance. Demos make the future look effortless. A few clicks and a system spits out results that once took weeks. Decks suggest smooth integration and instant leverage. But the moment teams move from showcase to deployment, the ground changes. Data is messy, workflows resist, compliance slows everything down. Each step stretches the gap further. Most leaders assume the gap is narrow. They see the promise and expect delivery to follow a straight line. The reality is nonlinear. Every hidden cost multiplies. Every assumption compounds. That’s why so many pilots never graduate to production. Discipline, not magnitude of vision, decides who makes it through the gap between AI’s shine and its strain. Great leaders know the future is won by closing the distance between promise and delivery.

Fast ARR can be fragile ARR. Earned ARR tends to be sticky ARR. Not all growth is created equal.

@dp_oneill @nikillinit @ay_o Edi does a great job for submitting claims and supporting benefits queries and bringing a lightweight response for most. It may be expensive for what it provides today given the real problems but EDI has really helped the industry move forward.

really good post from @ay_o on actually deploying agentic workflows when it comes to healthcare billing - but I thought this point here in particular was poignant There are lots of interfaces where information is presented – machine-readable interfaces, human readable interfaces, and human-human phone calls. Machine-readable interfaces in legacy tech parts of the world seem to degrade more and are constrained by things like legacy data standards or terrible APIs. Human readable computer interfaces are richer in information + people complain louder when they’re bad, but they’re also constrained by what’s presented in the user interface. Human-human (aka calling someone) has no restrictions and is the most flexible at passing information, but currently the least scalable as long as one of the two people talking is a human being There are lots of experiments now being run to access information in each of these interfaces when it’s possible, and move to the next interface when it’s not. Ayo has a really interesting workflow that does this with API calls + browser agents in the post

Portals, 277and traditional apis are brittle and rigid and not scalable for the 30-50% of transactions with payers. Human intervention is required for most submitted claims. The future is conversational dialogue best expressed through voice and language between billers and payer reps and the current default systems that are widely expressed.

@ycombinator AI Scribing not hard

Paul Graham on why startups should deliberately choose hard problems: