Anchorage Man

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Current: Staff Product Scientist @ Teamworks Author: “The Midrange Theory” Prev: Director of Basketball Research @ Milwaukee Bucks. Dir. N. American Sports @ StatsBomb. NBA analysis @ The Athletic. NBA DS @ Penn Entertainment.

Wouldn’t YOU trust this man?

We all know someone like Alexi Lalas. He's the ranter whose rants never actually say anything, the life of the party
at the party no one enjoys attending, the "big personality" who's always misjudging the size of the room. He's corporate America's idea of a fun guy, the type of workplace "character" whose business trip hangover never stops him from being first at the hotel breakfast buffet, hair wet, Untuckit shirt untucked. He would absolutely dominate karaoke night at a conference on infrastructure finance.

LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.

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Sportech | Strategic Advisor | Conne ...
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Sports Illustrated didn't decline with print.
It rebuilt the model.
Circulation dropped to ~400K.
So the business shifted.
Away from ads.
Toward platforms.
52M monthly users.
Now monetized across:
Tickets.
Experiences.
Global editions.
Streaming.
Here's what stands out.
The biggest driver.
Sports Illustrated Tickets.
Expected to generate $500M this year.
That's not media.
That's commerce.
This is the shift.
Audience → transaction.
Not just content.

Famous photo of Harry Truman holding up a Chicago Trib headlined “Dewey Defeats Truman.”