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Every so often the past few years, there’s a piece of personal trivia Jay Smith will pull out with a certain level of pride. Few players have captured the attention and imagination of the larger basketball world more of late than Nikola Jokic, the doughy Denver Nuggets superstar whose skill set at his size defies historical precedent.  If Jokic’s name happens to come up in conversation, Smith, now the director of player personnel and recruiting at Michigan, has a story only a select few can match – he coached one of Jokic’s older brothers, Nemanja, while an assistant at Detroit Mercy in the late 2000s.

Clay kindly supports this Substack post. Ever since I mastered data enrichment for outbound, I screenshare it on my mentorship calls. The only way for people to understand how super-easy and useful Clay is is to see it in action in their cases ✌️. This time, I will show you how straightforward it is to: 1. Build a list of VCs in your selected markets 2. Find decision makers and their contact data there

Hello and welcome to Give Me Weird Drinks, a newsletter for exploring the world of beverages! Today we’re going back to the island of Sri Lanka for the finale of a two-part series about arrack, a spirit made from fermented coconut palm nectar. Lionel Christy Fernando walks between coconut palms, harvesting arrack. Sri Lankan arrack leapt into the European imagination after it was mentioned by Marco Polo in his 13th-century travelogue, The Travels of Marco Polo.

When I first moved to the UK I was introduced to this dark brown condiment with Marmite-like consistency called “Bovril”. It’s a salty, sticky, beef extract paste. I had never heard about this spread and was shocked when I found out it is used not only as a condiment but also as a drink? With just one spoonful mixed with hot water, you’ve got yourself “beef tea”. This beverage is commonly drunk at football matches when spectators are stuck in the cold for hours on end, supporting their favorite team, shivering away with chattering teeth.

Child figure study, Schiller GeyserWhen I was nine years old, I took my first paid job delivering unwanted, unread newsprint shoppers to all of the houses in Meadowlark Hills, the charmless new subdivision of particle-board-and-plastic houses nestled in the tumbleweed prairie at the at the base of the foothills of Casper Mountain. Ours was a small, mustard-yellow house with an attached garage and a leaky basement. Once every two weeks, an anonymous adult driver stopped by and unloaded a pile of papers for me to roll, secure with a thin red rubber band, and deliver to my anonymous neighbors.

It’s been about 72 hours since I returned home from eight days in France, most of which were spent as a chaperone to seniors-to-be from Arrupe Jesuit High School in North Denver. We were under the auspices of the D-Day Leadership Academy based in Saint-Mere-Eglise and run by longtime former Colorado Avalanche national anthem singer Jake Schroeder. In these 72 hours, I’ve said an amazed, shake-of-the-head “yes” to myself on all the following:

Etymology: merendar (to snack) Just as afternoon tea with a jam scone was an essential and quite ordinary detail of life for the Queen of England, an afternoon snack with at least a slice of cake and a glass of milk was one of the greatest longings of my childhood. So, while I can easily refuse practically any meal, I can never refuse an invitation that includes cake or cookies.

The second I climbed back into my car, I googled the owner of Sandy Hill Maine. How and why was an idea like this get generated? A longtime dream to produce an immersive light experience with over 2 million lights along the Piscataqua River? How does one first get interested in something like this? Is it a passion project? A pivot project? If you haven’t read my book yet, that’s totally okay, of course.

Via Matt “Dean Dad” Reed, I read this Washington Monthlypiece on a study of wage gaps for different undergraduate majors. Specifically, it’s looking at a study from the University of Texas system that showed the usual large racial gap in pay within STEM and business majors, but not for non-STEM fields. The key figure is here, showing median salaries for different career stages broken down by race and major: While there’s a significant and consistent racial gap in salaries for majors in the “computers, statistics, and mathematics” category and likewise for business majors, there’s little or no gap in the “humanities and liberal arts” category.