This is sort of the opposite side of the spectrum from the “Professional athletes are normal human beings too.” I don’t think these yacht-folks are normal human beings. Not at all. (That’s not a generalized paintbrush, mind you — these are just some crazy stories.)

Watching the on-ice and on-field play is one thing. Discovering how professional athletes live their lives is another. It’s fascinating to read stories — especially around a professional athlete’s finances — and discover how alike or how different they are from “normal” folks. Add in the effect of uncovering context — such as a professional athlete’s level of education, culture, and nationality — and it becomes much, much easier to look at these guys like they are actual human beings.

I’m not sure it can be ASMR without audio, but this is equally relaxing to watch. Patel has some serious aerial photography chops.

Gemmell inspired me to use Tap Dance for enabling an inverted-T arrow key layout on the Planck EZ. The amount of headache this has saved me — I may be forever in Gemmell’s debt.

Live Text is going to be the catalyst for normalizing OCR across our digital lives. There is going to be a before-and-after Live Text epoch. Live Text will become so prevalent, we’ll consider the before-Live Text era like black and white television.

There will be some know-it-all who says “Yeah, but $X,XXX amount of money per day is still a lot of money.” And sure, I guess it is. But that’s not the point here. The point is that the $5 million contract you see in the news gets eaten up very, very quickly. Tax, agents, coaches, team functions, and team staff all chisel away at those large contracts. Rightfully so! But let’s not pretend athletes don’t pay their fair share.

Incredible, incredible back-and-forth action. Also, today I learned this type of sequence is known as a “volley” in table tennis.

Yes, Disney+ is actually a baseball product. How I love these kinds of stories.

I find this video oddly entrancing.