Benjamin Gaines

Stop dunking on our trade so immediately

The joke’s on you because I actually only traded down by like four picks to get him

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The NBA to Tony Jones:

Benioff looks he has aged 20 years in the last 18 months (relatable tbh)

This is the image that keeps coming to my brain: Dr. Alan Grant keeping the kids behind him, staring down the velociraptor who is absolutely, 100% going to eat him, and there's really nothing he can do except say "you'll have to go through me first" with his eyes

Spoiler alert: it’s “all of them”

Exactly. When we're talking about the impact of tanking on enjoyability, I think we aren't paying enough attention to injuries to competitive teams. The bad teams are trying to lose, and the good teams have all been without their stars for huge stretches, making the league less fun to watch overall.

See, and I've been assuming my lack of interest in Watching The Games™ was anhedonia on my part

Also—I had been **ASSURED** in last week's seminal "Something Big is Happening" that they are no longer just "programmed to say what I want to hear."

Me: I WANT THE TRUTH
Chat: YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH

I had been promised that today's LLMs don't confidently say things that are nonsense, but I just asked GPT 5.2 to make sure Ha-seong Kim is healthy before I bid on him in fantasy; ChatGPT says he's "totally healthy," and WHOOPS you'll never believe who it turns out is expected to miss all of April.

The streets are saying that @lennysan.bsky.social's podcast/community is no longer a PM podcast/community, it is "an AI podcast/community that dabbles in PM." Lenny, can we PLEASE get more episodes with normal PMs talking about product management? So much is changing due to AI, but not EVERYTHING 🤷🏻‍♂️

They’re going to, lol

WIPE THAT ONE OUT, VAR

Man, Rio has the juice

I woke up and turned on the game, and then, much like the Liverpool squad itself, it seems, proceeded to sleep through most of the first half

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Haha, “both” is undefeated, ultimately

I am at a point in life where I’d rather learn to play Little Shop songs on the piano with my daughter than eat a delicious but filling burrito

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Seeing every company seemingly become a sports betting company reminds me of the Please Don't Destroy SNL sketch where JC Penney and Jiffy Lube get into hard seltzer youtu.be/iBpgqRbEFVg?...

I honestly don’t understand that impulse, but clearly I’m in the minority 😂

"Coding is largely solved" says the head of Claude Code on a popular AI podcast that used to be a product management podcast. I'm shocked—shocked!—that the head of Claude Code is bullish on AI code generation.

("Analytics is largely solved" says Ben Gaines)

I want to go one day—just one—without reading a thinkfluencer prediction of an AI future that, somehow, only they and their followers and sycophants are prepared for

BREAKING: Utah Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen will undergo season-ending dimpleplasty, league sources tell ESPN

I dunno why it never occurred to me until about six weeks ago to stop sharing my calendar with my organization. It has been a total cheat code, an A++ LPT. I still have about 95% of the same meetings but I am so much more in control of my own day/week. So much better than people just scheduling crap

Purchased!

Oooh… I haven’t read it. I need a great next book after I finish the Three-Body series in the next week or so. This is the one.

Incidentally, I swear someone else mentioned The Hike to me recently as well. Maybe @markrussellpereira.bsky.social?

Folks, you’re not going to believe this, but

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Kids today will never understand the sheer, breathless terror inspired in all of us by the Sesame Street I-Beam scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FB...