Welcome to LL108, LLamas!

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

What a tribute to an Italian legend

First was an important discussion with Abhinav Gupta on how community trauma alters organizational risk-taking (in this case, going for it on 4th down in American football) on @sekoubermiss.bsky.social's Lit Review podcast. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiKc... (2/5)

🎙️New Lit Review episode: Recent events in #Minneapolis highlight how community trauma affects local firms. I speak with Abhinav Gupta (UWashington) about his recent research on how violent community events challenge classic views of strategy decisonmaking. thelitreview.podbean.com/e/the-lit-re...

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

I have seen 1 of these movies. #dadlife

Has anyone called him Cig-natty yet? If not, I think I’m the first.

he ain't lie

I love that, even in the midst of the dawning recognition that he could now celebrate the greatest achievement of his professional career, Curt Cignetti looked and sounded like he wanted to drag his offensive line into the film room and put them in the machine from A Clockwork Orange

holy shit they did it

Is there anything Chris Folwer loves calling better than "a DANGEROUS pass"? #CFB

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Respectfully, if your organization scaled back its DEI commitments in 2025, preemptively or under the banner of “an abundance of caution”, it may be worth reconsidering a public post this Monday. Silence would speak more honestly. Respectfully. #MLKDay #Leadership #Integrity #ValuesInAction

Oregon trailing

I was going to do a snarky post about how the SEC got zero teams into the national championship game and then I remembered that also happened last year and then I remembered that also happened the year before that

Are they...aiming for the posts?

"The day after Secretary Noem’s militia murdered an American citizen, she dared to come lecture our city about public safety and criticize our response to the atrocities of her administration." Response to Secretary Noem's Appearance in Manhattan today:

My 2025 #HipHop Year in Review is out, and I’ve brought it to Substack. Might be the last one. Comments welcome. Sharing is caring. sekoubermiss.substack.com/p/2025-hip-h...

The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

Only Kiffin could do this.

Another article that brings voice to something I have felt for a while... post.substack.com/p/against-re...

Every now and again, I encounter writing that articulates a belief I’ve long held but rarely expressed. That happened today when I read this: open.substack.com/pub/practica...

This Amazon Prime broadcast has been blatantly cheering for the Spurs. Now give the Knicks their props!

I did this event in Detroit with Jason Reynolds. Had a really good time. That’s always nice. It’s also nice when Orlando is your interlocutor. He gets me to say things like this

Just in time for #Jolabokaflod

Somehow @sepinwall.bsky.social published a beautiful eulogy for Rob Reiner overnight. I woke up saddened by the news of his passing, and this piece—celebrating his life and work—was exactly what I needed to read. www.whatsalanwatching.com/rob-reiner-w...

Well recent developments have put me off writing a canto

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

🎙️New Lit Review episode! I talk with Rachael Dailey Goodwin (Syracuse) about her work on #perfectionism in professional #ballet, how those dynamics show up at work, and what leaders can do to support excellence without fueling #burnout. Available on all platforms and here: bit.ly/48ymEbe

Sometimes you pray for guidance about a decision and God says, "why not both?!?"

It just dawned on me that Miami fired Manny Diaz to make room for Mario Christobal and Diaz is going to make an ACC Conference Title Game before Christobal

Smiled reading this in NYT this morning. A classic NYC interaction.

Shamet has finally surpassed a 31-point career high. He has 34.

Mamdani went to a small college similar to the one where I work and majored in Africana Studies. From now on my answer to the microaggressive question of “what can one (even) do with a Black Studies degree from a liberal arts college?” is “You can run New York.”

Can AI make people more creative at work? 💡 In the latest #TheLitReview podcast, I talk with Nan Jia (USC) about her award-winning AMJ paper on how AI frees employees from routine tasks and boosts innovation. 🎧 Listen on all platforms or here: www.podbean.com/media/share/... #AI #FutureOfWork

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

"Faculty governance has largely been replaced by a governed faculty." If it can happen at Chicago with dozens of Nobel Prize winners on faculty, it can happen anywhere. www.chronicle.com/article/rese...

"The over/under is 60.5" ESPN announcer finally comes out and says the quiet part out loud in waning moments of Alabama-Tenn game. @thepressbox.bsky.social

Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo are also going to have a multi-hour meeting after this game but it's just going to be them hitting wrestling finishers off the couch on each other

Just read @Henry Abbott's article about Kahwi/Clippers scandal and it turns out it's a beautiful ode to good #journalism open.substack.com/pub/truehoop... @thepressbox.bsky.social

"Judge has arrived!" An incredible call.

this is actually a pretty big black mark on Hulu that they had the opportunity to chronicle an extremely newsworthy spectacle and are letting UNC back out of it because it makes them look bad

It's come to my attention that the original What's Alan Watching? site debuted 20 years ago today. Why not celebrate that anniversary by subscribing to its current iteration, aka the place where I'm writing all my reviews and recaps right now?

With 1:23 left in 4q my son just said to me, "it's only 4 touchdowns". I think that is genuine sadness. Time to turn on the Longhorns.

The only thing Ludacris is this score. Amirite? (I'll see myself out)

WE'RE GOING TO TORONTO YANKEES WIN

Overall trust in #media continues to slide in US, dipping below 30% in recent poll. More telling is the ideological divide: 8% for Republicans and 51% for Democrats. I grapple to contemplate what this looks like for the US in 10 years. @thepressbox.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/10/0...