Ideas I want to write about

Not long ago, I sat across from a senior leader who proudly described the culture of transparency he believed he had built. “My door is always open,” he said. “I tell my team I want the truth, even when it’s hard.”

Later that afternoon, I spoke with one of his direct reports. She paused when I asked her what it was like to work for him.

“He says he w

Bob and Mike are two very well-liked guys within tennis, and celebrations of them will surely be whole-hearted by everyone in the sport.

“But in the end of the day, when the players needed to be active and when there was a time of negotiations and decision-making, players weren't participating enough. This is an ongoing story of the players, particularly top players. They express their feelings, but then when you really need to put in the time and the energy into conversations, mee

You don’t reach the mainstream with your niche unless you genuinely meet with or create a cultural moment.

Well, as said here many times, tennis has willingly entered its tennis-players-turned-content-creators-and-influencers era, and the ATP is now shrugging off all the alarm bells detonating on the way because… they’re off to be famous. You mean to grow the game? Well, sure, it’ll tag along with the fame, you know. Of course.

In TikTok, I don’t trust.

• C

Over the years, I’ve tried to train myself: doubt, discuss, dive deeper, understand better, assimilate input from others, reflect on what I’ve learned, get in touch with my intuition, make a decision, and then get to work. The doubt doesn’t really go away, but from that point on, it mostly sits on the sidelines while I do what I’ve decided to do.

• Ar

If you are hoping to make a living as a pretty good violinist, you were born in the wrong century.

As you’ve already guessed, we’re all violinists now.

“You want the sport to evolve. Anytime I think that's the main goal, to be honest—where people are trying things—things are never going to be perfect the first time, with anything. But I think we were always like, ‘Hey, they're trying to do something to make it evolve.’ It's hard not to be supporting something with that mindset.”

• Christian Harrison

There was a famous English football player, George Best, a super talent with a crazy lifestyle. It's a very famous sentence when he says, In my life, I spent a lot of money on alcohol, cars, and women. All the other money, I just wasted.