The Best Paragraph I've Read...

Zac & Don are joined by varsity football coach John Blackstock. John is a cofounder of Coach's Suite, an organization focused on helping athletes navigate the realities and process of college sport's recruitment. The discussion focuses on how high school athletes should think about college recruitment. Instead of waiting for a college coach to find you, an athletes and their family must become...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: It's the 2nd annual NCAA Mascot Bracket Picks! Kevin Kopec also joins to give REAL analysis and his own REAL picks. The draft is based upon this brilliant data set and article that was written by the Wall Street Journal. The authors are: Rosie Ettenheim & Laine Higgins. You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cats-vs-birds-ncaa-tou...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "President Trump said this month that he had asked the U.S. Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, part of an effort to cut down on what he called wasteful government spending. His remarks revived a long-running debate over whether to get rid of the smallest denomination of U.S. currency. " This paragraph comes from the Wall Street Journal. The...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "The social crisis of our time is not just that Americans are more socially isolated than ever, but also that social isolation is rising alongside romantic isolation, as the economic and cultural trajectories of men and women move in opposite directions. And, perhaps most troubling, the Americans with the least financial wealth also seem to have the least “ s...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Comes from the 52 things that Kent Hendricks leaned in 2024. You can read the full list here: https://kenthendricks.com/52-things-i-learned-in-2024/ Zac & Don share and discuss their favorite facts and statistics from Kent Hendrick's list of 52 things that he learned in 2024.

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Buc-ee’s, a 43-year-old Texas-based chain, is expanding rapidly across the US South, where its “world’s cleanest restrooms,” wall of beef jerky, soda fountains with more than 90 selections and bucktooth beaver dolls are much in demand. Sixty miles north of Atlanta, the line of cars leading into Buc-ee’s from Interstate 75’s two exit ramps sometimes stretches a mil...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: ChatGPT, which now has over 300 million users, has been marketed as a general-purpose tool that can write code, summarize long documents and give advice. Ayrin found that it was easy to make it a randy conversationalist as well. She went into the “personalization” settings and described what she wanted: Respond to me as my boyfriend. Be dominant, possessive and pr...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "These sorts of changes are important because their downstream impact can be seismic. What do social structures look like if we reprioritize what’s important? What do we teach our kids? How do people design their lives?" This paragraph comes from quarter--mile.com. The essay is titled: "Trains That May Cease to Be Valuable." The authors are Car...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Sometimes it’s fun to think of the world as a big  role playing game , like Skyrim. If you had been creating your character two thousand years ago—roughly around the time Jesus died—then you probably would have wanted to spend your time acquiring some of the following traits: Good with your hands Lots of physical endurance Naturally athletic Any level of fluency i...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "For decades, Nvidia employees have been sending notes known as T5Ts, or Top-5 Things—things they’re working on, things they’re thinking about, things they’re noticing in their corners of the business. And for decades, Jensen Huang has been reading them. All of them. “If you send it,” he says, “I’ll read it.” The founder and chief executive of Nvidia reads them to kee...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: As he prepares to assume office, Trump has returned to the idea. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” the president-elect wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform, over the weekend, in a statement announcing his choice for a...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: In 1937, primarily young, working women, a typical week consisted of a strict allotment of responsibilities and enjoyment. They spent 48 hours working, 56 hours sleeping, 31 hours on home obligations, and 24 hours eating or running errands. What remained, a rather precarious 9 hours per week, was time spent in the pursuit of what could generously be called pleasure. T...

Zac & Don speak with Kearsten Manoulian about her decision to leave education and become a life coach. They discuss the role of a life coach and some of the reasons life coaching is becoming more popular in America. Kearsten also shares some probing questions to help Zac & Don consider the next year of their life. You can see what Kearsten is up on her Instagram @aligned_path_coaching, be...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "The biggest health risks of foods in America are not the additives that many people worry about. The real culprits are familiar foods and ingredients that are safe or even healthy in limited amounts but become killers when consumed in excess. Research is clear that Americans take in way too much sugar and sodium (in salt), as well as too much red meat, processed meat...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "With a decisive electoral mandate and a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, DOGE has a historic opportunity for structural reductions in the federal government. We are prepared for the onslaught from entrenched interests in Washington. We expect to prevail. Now is the moment for decisive action. Our top goal for DOGE is to eliminate the need for its exist...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "Most companies are starting to figure out how artificial intelligence will change the way they do business. Chegg is trying to avoid becoming its first major victim." This paragraph comes from the Wall Street Journal. The article is titled: "How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant." The author is Miles Kruppa. You can read the full article here: https://ww...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "All you need to know is that when my travel plans to Machu Picchu fell through, I had a revelation: I might die without seeing the place that everyone says you have to see before you die and that I only recently learned was in Peru. In my happy-go-lucky days, when my deadline was Never, I took it for granted that sooner or later I’d travel everywhere (even Liechtenst...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "Nationwide, just over a million children, mostly girls, participate in cheer each year (some estimates are even higher), more than the number who play softball or lacrosse. And almost every part of that world is dominated by a single company: Varsity Spirit. It’s hard to cheer at the youth, high school or collegiate level without putting money in the company’s pocket...

The Best Paragraph I've Read "When should you give up? You certainly don’t want to give up too soon on finding your way out of the woods, and call the ski patrol unnecessarily. Similarly, you don’t want to give up on your dreams before they’re realized, or on your relationships because they’re sometimes troublesome; you want to be a reliable, determined, heroic individual—someone with grit, who fo...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: Sperling's conundrum is familiar to many people with parents facing down their golden years: After they've acquired things for decades, eventually, those things have to go. As the saying goes, you can't take it with you. Many millennials, Gen Xers, and Gen Zers are now facing the question of what to do with their parents' and grandparents' possessions as their loved o...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: The concept of a citizen council—a democratic forum with roots in ancient Greece—is straightforward: a selected group of people come together to discuss a matter of public policy, with the goal of making proposals or clarifying public attitudes. Hélène Landemore, a professor at Yale and the author of “Open Democracy,” which argues for a more inclusive system of partic...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: "Educators sometimes assume Gen Z digital natives already know how to type because they’re so familiar with tech. After all, nearly half of teens say they are online “almost constantly,” according to a survey from Pew Research Center. But while today’s students have greater access to laptops, tablets and smartphones, that access doesn’t automatically translate into ty...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: In his recent advisory on parents’ mental health, the United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, said out loud what many parents might have only furtively admitted: Parenting today is too hard and stressful. Of course, there have always been concerns about families’ well-being. And while some of today’s parents’ fears are newer — cellphones, school shooti...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: If everyone outside hard-core engineering, math or pre-med courses can easily get an A, the whole system loses meaning. It fails to make distinctions between different levels of achievement or to motivate students to work hard on their academic pursuits. All the while, it allows students to pretend—to themselves and to others—that they are performing exceptionally...

The Best Paragraph I've Read: When we think about inequality, the first images that come to mind are often of poverty, unfairness, and social injustice. But what if we’re looking at inequality all wrong? Consider another economy. In this economy, the Gini coefficient is a whopping 0.6—much higher than in the U.S. or just about any country in the world. Living in this economy must be miserable,...