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Flashback 20 yrs ago when I launched my 1st tech watch (an activity monitor for swimmers) at the IronMan World Triathlon Championship.
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Bill Geiser
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Bill Geiser
@billg
Serial Entrepreneur that has built category-defining products across wearables, networking and sports tech.
Tampa, FL เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2006
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Fruits & vegetables likely account for a majority of people's dietary microplastic and PFAS intake.
What’s frustrating is that this isn’t something you can just rinse off. In many cases, the contamination appears to be taken up into the food itself.
Organic may reduce some of that exposure, but even organic farms can be affected when they’re near contaminated land or water.
Should you stop eating produce? No. We should be much more upset about how widespread these chemicals have become, especially when children are being exposed through foods we otherwise consider healthy.
One practical thing I think is worth considering is beta-glucan. There’s some evidence it may help support the excretion of PFAS, and given how unavoidable these exposures are becoming, that may be a useful tool, especially for families who can’t realistically eliminate every source.
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Bill Geiser รีทวีตแล้ว
Fraud. The answer is fraud.
Kenan Fikri@kenanfikri
California healthcare jobs have ballooned 25% in four years! The rest of the economy, -0.3% CA now has the biggest job growth gap between healthcare and the rest of the economy. @Thomas_Cronin_ and I dig into the trend and why it matters for us all 🧵
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Bill Geiser รีทวีตแล้ว
CBS should release the full, unedited interview. The voters deserve to hear from their next mayor.
Spencer Pratt@spencerpratt
After CBS embarrassed Karen Bass by fact-checking her debate lies about the Palisades Fire, they clearly got the call. CBS filmed with me on my burned out lot for over an hour, and they turned it over to Karen Bass’ PR team to edit it into a comical 5 minute hit piece with clips from the Hills. They can’t beat my ideas, they can’t beat me in the debates, so they gotta try to turn my campaign into a sideshow. People are done with these skeezy political tricks, and I’m done with CBS. They’ll never get a word from me for my next 8 years as mayor. Adios! What outlet should I have in their absence?
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Reagan warned us: ‘I’m from the Government and I’m here to help’ are the nine most terrifying words.
AOC hears that and says ‘hold my beer.’ Housing crisis? Blame Airbnb, not the decades of Dem zoning that made building illegal. Your ‘solutions’ don’t help — they evict opportunity.
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Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning.
Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale.
Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model.
Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole.
Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.
Paul Graham@paulg
Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html
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@willahmed @WHOOP Calling your shot with 'we’re still winning' engravings is bold… right up until the moment you get Pebbled.
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Famous last words. Ask BlackBerry or Kodak how 'we're still winning' worked out.
Arrogance cometh before the fall.
Rahul Sood 🏴☠️@rahulsood
@willahmed @WHOOP I don't think you're winning. I spent $300+ on my MG, and the membership price is insanely high for what you get. It's a good product, it's not worth the insane membership fee. I think you should worry, you sound like Steve Ballmer when Apple released the iPhone bruh.
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@NUCLRGOLF @FOS @_DavidRumsey @BrysonLegion Told ya Bryson was a step ahead of the PGA and golf media... x.com/billg/status/2…
Bill Geiser@billg
@NUCLRGOLF @BrysonLegion Bryson is smarter than the clowns running the PGA and the media it controls. TV viewership is dying while social media soars. And he knows this. Bryson is light years ahead of everyone else in golf in terms of leveraging social media for viewers, promotion and profit.
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🚨📺✅ JUST IN — Only days after Bryson DeChambeau expressed continued concern, the PGA Tour is overhauling and relaxing guidelines surrounding player content creation, social media and YouTube (via @FOS / @_DavidRumsey).
The changes, coming later this month, were shared at a PAC meeting this week
Changes include:
— Ability to post broadcast footage of 6 shots per round, up from a single shot previously
— Ability to post 120 minutes of player highlights on YouTube (up from 60 mins), 72 hours after an event concludes
— Players can now receive ad revenue for any content captured during practice rounds and pro-ams
— Players no longer need to transfer ownership of their YouTube channel to the PGA Tour in order to use archive footage
— Players still not allowed to commercialize the content they create on-site at an event or the broadcast highlights they post from tournaments
“The PGA Tour strives to provide the most athlete-friendly social media guidelines in professional sports”, a Tour spokesperson told @FOS.
Will Bryson return? @BrysonLegion
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@NUCLRGOLF @FOS @_DavidRumsey @BrysonLegion "Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:
(1) It’s completely impossible.
(2) It’s possible, but it’s not worth doing.
(3) I said it was a good idea all along.”
Arthur C. Clarke
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You do get the feeling we’re at an inflection point. Socialism of the kind preached by the progressive left and Mamdani — the stuff the current governor and past governor acquiesced to unfortunately — eventually succumbs to its own madness. It’s simple math because the numbers don’t add up. Combine that with the fact that it’s easier than ever before to work outside the city and more than ever before this socialist city needs an affluent tax base, and you get a powder keg ready to explode. Consider: @jpmorgan has a ritzy new office building in midtown. It also has more employees in Texas than NYC. It can close its HQ and take a tax write off and still be insanely profitable. Same with @Citadel and @apolloglobal. Btw I’m a working class kid; my dad was a construction worker and a bartender, but he knew that without people w money he wouldn’t be employed. So screw the rich all you want, Mr Mamdani, and they will screw you harder when you chase them out and discover that poor people don’t pay the bills
Charles Gasparino@CGasparino
As they say in the tabloid biz: “I made the wood!” nypost.com/2026/05/06/us-…
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O'Neil said LIV reaches 800,000,000 households. That's a lot of social Media. Way more than TV viewership. Way more than the TV viewership of the Superbowl, Kentucky Derby, Daytona 500, Indy 500, Wimbledon, The World cup, the World Series, and the Masters combined.
So where is LIV now? You're a retard.
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🚨👀⛳️ #BREAKING — Bryson DeChambeau says he is prepared to pursue his YouTube channel’s growth and compete in tournaments “that want me” if LIV Golf folds, adding that he has had conversations with the PGA Tour.
“I think, from my perspective, I'd love to grow my YouTube channel three times, maybe even more.”
“I'd love to do a bunch of dubbing in different languages, giving the world more reason to watch YouTube. And then I'd love to play tournaments that want me.”
He admitted that the potential penalties he would face from the PGA Tour would be “quite unfortunate in my opinion, considering what I could do for them.”
“I was completely shocked (on PlF pullout), I didn't expect it to happen. A couple months before that, it's like, 'We're here until 2032. We've got financing until 2032, and so I told everybody, and that's what I was told.”
“And then, you know, I haven't had any
communication. And unfortunately, things are moving on in a different direction. Obviously, they wanted to move.”
"There's a few different models (on LIV future). Look, the PGA Tour isn't doing great either. Let's be honest about the situation. They've got the media.”
“They've got everybody on the side that helps pump it up. But they're reducing field sizes, cutting employees, and restructuring their business too.”
@BrysonLegion
(Via: @espn)
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Depends on when you measure. Sure, 2025 is up over 2024. But 2024 was a disaster. A better measure is looking at the result over a longer period, say 2023-2025. Net from 2023–2025: Growth was modestly flat or slightly down. The 2025 rebound largely recovered the 2024 losses but often fell short of (or only matched) 2023 levels on a like-for-like basis for many events. Analyses noted that 2025’s strong year-over-year percentages were somewhat “misleading” because they compared against an unusually weak 2024 base. awfulannouncing.com
In summary, traditional televised golf showed volatility rather than steady decline or growth across this period. The 2024 slump highlighted vulnerabilities, while 2025 demonstrated resilience tied to compelling on-course action—yet longer-term pressures (cord-cutting, competition from digital/social media, post-Tiger era) kept overall numbers from showing clear upward momentum from the 2023 starting point. This backdrop aligns with discussions of players like Bryson DeChambeau needing to build direct-to-fan audiences beyond traditional TV.
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Disruption rarely looks “serious” to the old guard at first. It just works better for the next generation. DeChambeau’s world—building a massive YouTube audience, selective events, cross-league navigation, multilingual content—feels like the “reinvent the phone” moment for golf. Old Tom Morris (or modern traditionalists) might scratch their heads at it, just like execs did at a phone without buttons. But fans and younger audiences are voting with their attention and dollars. The sport (and industry) that adapts fastest usually wins the long game.
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Imagine explaining this to old Tom Morris
NUCLR GOLF@NUCLRGOLF
🚨👀⛳️ #BREAKING — Bryson DeChambeau says he is prepared to pursue his YouTube channel’s growth and compete in tournaments “that want me” if LIV Golf folds, adding that he has had conversations with the PGA Tour. “I think, from my perspective, I'd love to grow my YouTube channel three times, maybe even more.” “I'd love to do a bunch of dubbing in different languages, giving the world more reason to watch YouTube. And then I'd love to play tournaments that want me.” He admitted that the potential penalties he would face from the PGA Tour would be “quite unfortunate in my opinion, considering what I could do for them.” “I was completely shocked (on PlF pullout), I didn't expect it to happen. A couple months before that, it's like, 'We're here until 2032. We've got financing until 2032, and so I told everybody, and that's what I was told.” “And then, you know, I haven't had any communication. And unfortunately, things are moving on in a different direction. Obviously, they wanted to move.” "There's a few different models (on LIV future). Look, the PGA Tour isn't doing great either. Let's be honest about the situation. They've got the media.” “They've got everybody on the side that helps pump it up. But they're reducing field sizes, cutting employees, and restructuring their business too.” @BrysonLegion (Via: @espn)
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@BudElliott3 Agreed. The promise of a sports payoff is disappearing. I wrote about it here -> linkedin.com/pulse/she-trai…
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The fight between college sports private equity and use for private equity is going to be fascinating.
If as the North Carolina A.D. recently said all these sports that lose a ton of money for the university become club sports, non-scholarship, does the interest in some of the really competitive travel youth sports for sports that no longer offer college scholarships start to mirror the lack of reward at the end of the rainbow?
James Jackson | LaceUp Soccer@LaceUpSoccer
The largest youth sports operator in America just hired Goldman Sachs to find a buyer. 2 million athletes. 1,500 events. $40 million in annual profit. The next time someone tells you youth sports are about the kids, remember: kids don't have an investment banker.
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Absolutely. And this principle extens far beyond filmmaking. Entrepreneurship is a prime example as it is fundamentally storytelling: You’re crafting a compelling narrative about a problem, a solution, a future state, and why you are the right person to deliver it. AI supercharges all of this.
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Charlie Curran has spent 20 years making movies. He thinks AI is the best thing to happen to filmmaking because ‘the people who are the best at storytelling should be the ones with the best tools.’ thefp.com/p/the-filmmake…
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NCAA Olympic sports are now squarely in the crosshairs of disruption. Historic success like Pitt swimming is being pushed aside while the new economics reward only the big revenue engines. Like all disruptions (think iPhone disrupting the mobile industry) being in the crosshairs feels relentless. Swimming needs a lean Task Force—coaches, athletes, alumni & admins who truly care—to build a survival blueprint: donor models, conference protections, Olympic pipeline funding & smarter revenue advocacy. Take the lead!
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Pitt NCAA All-Americans "We sat in a meeting with Allen Greene and left with no real answers." swimswam.com/pitt-ncaa-all-…
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David, spot on about the pattern—but NIL + revenue sharing is a mega-trend swallowing Olympic sports whole. Football/basketball consume new dollars; everyone else gets squeezed regardless of the AD.
Swimming needs a focused Task Force—a small group of coaches, athletes, alumni, and admins; people who truly care about the sport—to build a real survival blueprint: donor models, conference protections, Olympic pipeline funding, and smarter revenue share advocacy. Does something like this already exist with real momentum? Who's leading? #SaveCollegeSwimming
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@swimswamnews Follow the pattern… Allen cut Swimming at Buffalo, then gutted @AuburnU when he was AD there (for a short time), now Pitt… concerns should be sent to the chancellor on her poor hire in the AD role.
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Pitt NCAA All-Americans “We sat in a meeting with Allen Greene and left with no real answers.” swimswam.com/pitt-ncaa-all-…
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Disruption hits every sector eventually—businesses facing market shifts, industries upended by tech, or now NCAA Olympic sports squeezed by new economics (NIL programs prioritizing football / basketball, forcing program cuts). Swimming is feeling it hard. The key: there's a process for navigating disruption that looks something like this—assess the landscape (allies/enemies), build coalitions, innovate revenue models, advocate policy fixes, and execute. But the longer you wait, the tougher and costlier it will get for stakeholders (ie athletes, pipelines to Team USA, etc).
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Chase Kreitler has resigned after the best season in Pitt history. From his announcement: "I was recently informed that the department intends to move in a different strategic direction after the 2026–2027 season." I'd say that's a bad sign for the future of Pitt swimming.
SwimSwam@swimswamnews
Chase Kreitler Resigns As Pitt Head Coach Effective Immediately swimswam.com/chase-kreitler…
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