Braden Kopp

Survive and Advance 😤 #AnchorDown⚓️⬇️

Haven’t been on an elevator since 2020 @millerkopp

@MarvinMenzies Coach the Kopp’s wish you continued blessings - many lives changed by the Menzies fam.

My last HC Game Mar. 4th after a 45 Year Coaching career... - Sacramento State Santa Monica San Diego State USC UNLV New Mexico State (9 yrs) UNLV Grand Canyon Kansas City Men's Basketball youtu.be/v02FCh5GiSo

From Gulf Breeze to Indianapolis. Sights and sounds from the NFL Combine. @EXOSsports

Read enough literature and you soon begin to see it everywhere, you're walking around and it's right there on the surface of everyday life, superimposed text, as if reality had citations you couldn't see before

self driving is solved. AGI is here. humanoid robots entering production, nuclear fusion finally working, the food pyramid being rebuilt from scratch, fatness curable, BCIs restoring movement and sight, CRISPR editing diseases out of the germline, cancer becoming manageable, private companies building moon landers, longevity approaching escape velocity i think we're going to be fine

Thought ratings were supposed to be bad? I bet merchandising breaks records too

Beautiful campuses in NYC, West Palm, Chattanooga (quantum computing) & now SF. HOD kids will be doing their internships at Palintir and Goldman in SF and NYC in a couple years. Diermeier building the elite university of the future. Combine with athletics he’s been incredible

This is big. Back when we all started with this Primal/paleo/real food stuff 20 years ago, did you ever think you'd see these words and phrases and recommendations in the USDA dietary guidelines? "Nutrient-dense" "Healthy fats from whole foods... eggs, seafood, meats, full-fat dairy..." "1.2-1.6 grams per kg" of protein "Colorful" fruits and vegetables "traditionally prepared" grains... "oats, rice, and sourdough preferred" They even cut way back on grains. 2-4 servings of whole grains down from 8-11 in the old guidelines There's no mention of seed/vegetable oils, but the implication is that they should be avoided These are big wins.

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3 ways to hijack the creative part of your brain: 1. Morning Mud we mistakenly think greatness is clean. Like you're supposed to wake up, meditate, cold plunge, sip green tea -- and then produce brilliant work. Nope. You gotta work like a pig. Wake up, and roll in the mud. Seinfeld spent the first 2 hours of his day writing jokes. Why? because if you want great jokes, you gotta write a lot of bad jokes. He did that everyday, for 40+ years. Less than 0.1% of those jokes ever made it into his standup set. Quantity is the mother of quality. b..bu..buut what about writer's block? "there's no writers block" he said. "there IS scared. there IS lazy. But there's no writers block." You can cure writers block like it's a simple case of the hiccups: "just sit down and accept your mediocrity" Translation: the harder you try to be great, the more you paralyze your creativity. Instead, be willing to roll in the mud. Make bad stuff, everyday. Ed Sheeran: "I don't try to be great. When I walk in the studio, I remind myself 'today, I must dare to suck'...you can never make a great song, if you're afraid to make a bad song" The first 2 hours of the day. Sit down and create. Before you check the news, twitter, and stock market. BEFORE YOU PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR BRAIN... make something. Coders code. Writers write. Musicians play music. It's not going to be good. It's not SUPPOSED to be good. Good comes later. You will only be as great as you're willing to be bad. 2. Engineered Rest If you're reading this - you work too much, and it's suffocating your creativity. All great work is on the other side of a breakthru idea. How do you get a breakthrough? 3 places: 1) in water 2) in motion 3) after a nap Ever notice you get your best ideas in the shower? That's because your brain shifts from Executive Mode (doing tasks) to Default Mode (connecting dots) "Creativity is just connecting things" - Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin (writer of west wing, social network) showers 8x a day when writing scripts. Einstein used to float on a boat without a motor at sea. The coast guard was worried he'd drift away. He said "good, more time to think" Darwin used to go for long walks in nature. He'd kick a stone every lap. He started calling his problems "4 stone problems" and "5 stone problems" JK Rowling came up with Harry Potter on a train. Edison, Einstein, Salvador Dali all took very short naps, and woke themselves up (holding a key, or metal ball that would drop and clang when they fell asleep) - because the brain enters a hypogogic state which allows for creative connections. Showers, Naps, Swimming, Walking -- these look lazy. What's more important to you: Looking productive or being productive? Just like athletes and bodybuilders use sleep to grow their muscles - you must give yourself permission to relax. Clock out so your subconscious mind can clock in. 3. THINK INSIDE THE BOX Creativity loves constraints. Dr. Suess was an up and coming writer. His editor bet him $100 he couldn't write a book using less than 50 words. "it was damn tough. but that's what made it fun. It gave it that bounce" The book (Green Eggs and Ham) went on to be his all-time best selling book. The lie we're told is that you need to "think outside the box" If you study the great ones, you see they do the opposite. They put themselves INTO a tight box. Fewer options. Tight deadlines. Less features. ^these are the tools of the master creators that's just a taste, reply DM if you want me to DM you the full list

#Bears are signing former @NUFBFamily tight end Thomas Gordon to practice squad, per a league source @KPRC2

Healthy. Healing. 3 weeks post surgery.

WE DON'T DO ORANGE

Vanderbilt has an ad running in LaGuardia calling themselves “New York’s SEC team”

HUSKIES TIE IT UP Maddox Kopp with a perfect ball to Ja'Ryan Wallace as @HCUFootball evens it up in H-Town!

29 PTS 🎯 7 REB 🎯 9 3PM Miller Kopp is a HUMAN TORCH! The former @indianambb star poured in a career-high in points and in threes to lead the @chargecle to victory.

👌 for kopp! @millerkopp | #ChargeOn

@markcecchini Great word

I wish I just managed money. It would make my day-to-day a hell of a lot easier. If I just managed money, I wouldn't need to: • Vet P&C insurance agents because a client's closing is in 48 hours and their current coverage is inadequate • Jump on urgent calls during tender offers, walking clients through tax implications while they're sitting in their car between meetings • Host 14 client planning meetings in a week, each one requiring custom prep because everyone's situation is different • Negotiate with estate attorneys on how to bill a client and collect info because we already have 90% of what they would ask for • Review beneficiary designations across all insurance policies and retirement accounts because someone just remembered they never updated them after their divorce • Model complex liquidity events across tech, small business, and medicine (pre, during, and post-liquidity and proceeds) • Coordinate with CPAs during tax season who all want information yesterday and don’t have a constant line to the client the same way we do • Talk someone off the ledge when their ISO exercise triggers an AMT situation they didn't see coming • Build a relationship with every professional in your client's life (attorneys, CPAs, insurance agents, bankers) because you're in a position quarterback that nobody else can be Don't get me wrong, I love investing. The markets are fascinating. I'm 2/3 of the way done with the CFA program. Say what you want about that, but you don't subject yourself to that level of self-torture if you don't like digging into the investment side. Portfolio management and account management are some of the biggest value-added functions we provide. I wish this job were as easy as the naysayers say it is. Click a few buttons, place a few trades. Claiming that we just manage money for a hefty fee and don’t add any value is just not ground truth.

From Howard Mark’s latest letter: “as a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely revealed the extent to which it has previously been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works. In other words, many flawed decisions, which the economist Friedrich Hayek aptly described as ‘malinvestment,’ are made in booms and exposed in busts. The worst of loans are made in the best of times.”

What a great day to be a Vanderbilt Commodore ⚓️⬇️