Rooting against the Seahawks and for the US of A

vinyl

Taking the time to do the things I never haaaaad

It’s marketing week at CSX! @ted is schooling our cohort on building a community

/ted | exploring the onchain frontier | surfing @ venice, ca | eating @ gjusta / gjelina

Magic dust is sprinkled on MLB teams that beat the Brewers in the playoffs. Every one of them made it to the World Series, and most won it. 

1981 Yankees
1982 Cards (won WS)
2008 Phillies (won WS)
2011 Cards (won WS)
2018 Dodgers
2019 Nats (won WS)
2020 Dodgers (won WS)
2021 Braves (won WS)
2023 Dbacks
2024 Mets?

Bizarre box score from yesterday. The Dodgers beat the Braves 9-0, but each team only had 4 hits

Bizarre box score from yesterday. The Dodgers beat the Braves 9-0, but each team only had 4 hits https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/ATL/ATL202409160.shtml

Geopolitics

Korea’s president took a page from Harry Truman’s playbook in his televised address today

Ryan Walker since July 28: 

11.2 IP, 22 K, 2 BB, 5 H, 0.00 ERA

In honor of ⚾ opening weekend, sharing my MLB passion project: tracking the best “teams” of rookies from each year since 1940. Which year's rookies could've put the best team on the field, based on career WAR? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x2pBsM-yi4QfgOXGnwXLMbSpW8ZpDYCy70GlKXtNWSU/edit#gid=1601951829

There's a ton of CF talent in this year's rookie class. 

Jackson Merrill. Tyler Fitzgerald. Jacob Young. Ceddanne Rafaela. Parker Meadows.

Today we’re announcing that @a16zcrypto is leading an $80M Series B financing of PIP Labs, developer of @storyprotocol.

Story is a blockchain protocol that allows creators to register their IP so they can track and monitor use, protecting their legal and economic rights. The goal is to create foundational infra that can underpin a new economic covenant between creators and platforms.

The team behind Story has deep tech and creative expertise. CEO/cofounder @s-y-lee has impressed us with big-picture vision and world-class tactical execution. Cofounder @jasonzhao  studied CS at Stanford, dove deeper into AI at DeepMind, and now leads technical development on Story.

For AI systems and creative people to happily co-exist, creators need a modern way to ensure they get compensated for their work. Story takes a proven approach — IP law — and updates it for the age of AI.

We are excited to support the Story team on this important mission.

https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/investing-in-story

.@storyprotocol is addressing challenges that are so important for the future of AI and entertainment. We're thrilled to be working so closely with them 🤝

The programmable IP layer that transforms IPs into networks that transcend mediums and platforms, unleashing global creativity and liquidity
Storyprotocol.xyz

Nearly a 3-way tie for best NL record 

Brewers were supposed to be in a rebuilding year

I’m excited to announce @a16zcrypto is leading the $9M Series A round in /daylightenergy! 🔆 Daylight is building a decentralized protocol to fund & coordinate distributed energy resources.

Daylight will initially sell distributed energy resource (DER) data to energy companies. It plans to enable anyone to build a virtual power plant, with access to info about DERs & the ability to control their deployment.

Imagine a home with solar panels, an electric vehicle battery, & a smart thermostat. Daylight lets the homeowner capture & sell data from those devices to energy companies to better manage the grid.

Co-founder & CEO @jasonbadeaux is a leading expert on decentralized network design for the physical world. Along with co-founders @powertrader and Udit Patel, they've built a crack team of energy grid operators, smart contract engineers, and domain experts.

We’re thrilled to help Daylight build a better & more decentralized energy grid! https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/investing-in-daylight/

Thrilled to be partnering with @daylightenergy on such an important mission! ☀️

/daylightenergy 🔆
Decentralizing the grid and bringing the energy industry onchain 🔆
Backed by /a16z 🔆
Building on /base 🔆
https://daylight.world

History

The last living person to witness Lincoln’s assassination

The last living person to witness Lincoln’s assassination https://youtu.be/1RPoymt3Jx4?si=YaVKEXDWmBbrGg17

The Rays have been overachieving for so long that it's weird to see them selling at the trade deadline

Network States

Books

Here's the latest reading list from the @a16zcrypto team. 

My contributions: Stop-Time: A Memoir by Frank Conroy, and Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen

We back bold entrepreneurs building the next internet. 
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Here's the latest reading list from the @a16zcrypto team. 

My contributions: Stop-Time: A Memoir by Frank Conroy, and Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen  https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/book-recommendation-reading-list-summer-2024/

This footnote about Josh Donaldson 💀

(from Why We Love Baseball by Joe Posnanski)

There were many tributes to Willie Mays at Oracle Park last night

RIP Willie Mays. One of the best to ever play the game.

The NL has 9 teams within 2 games of the final wildcard spot. 

The AL has…2 teams

Mike Manning

@ravmike