Looking forward to the #100HoleHike at @GGPGolf in SF to support @YouthonCourse ! Learn more & donate here: 100holehike.org/yocnational2… #YouthonCourse #ForeTheKids

"I want to give a shoutout to Jeremy Lin - he had me at Modell's going crazy trying to find his jersey" 😭 KAT shouts out Jeremy Lin and the impact he had on his own Knicks fandom

Pennsylvania @GovernorShapiro Administration Sues @character_ai Alleging AI Chatbot Unlawfully Presented Itself as Licensed Medical Professional #AI #chatbot pa.gov/governor/newsroom/202…

The moment @UW_Rowing finds out they won the Windermere Cup, beating Great Britain 🏆 Washington defends its title on the 40th anniversary of the international race 🙌

Apparently, I'm a wooden spoon. Good. Wooden spoons are tough, trusted, and built to handle the heat. Watch the debate tonight at 5:30—California's ready for someone who won't melt under pressure. #CAGovDebate

LFG @ZagMBB !! #GoZags

Let’s go Arizona and Coach Tommy! #gozags

The #NBA has approved to move forward with expansion bids to Seattle and Las Vegas. They still need to approve the bids, but this starts that process. Today, we are one step closer to our goal to #BringBackOurSonics!

Congrats to team @Limbic_ai on this @NatureMedicine paper!

LFG #Seattle ! #BringBackOurSonics @Steven_Ballmer @mcuban @TilmanJFertitta @joetsai1999 @NBA

Checking in with Stuart Fairchild after an incredible Team Chinese Taipei victory 💪

Man, didn’t realize @jalensuggs & @ChetHolmgren were hs teammates. Def would’ve gotten a chip for @ZagMBB if they both stayed #slipperstillfits

It’s that time of year! The @UWBuerk Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge! Happy to be judge and sponsor on behalf of @ScaleLLP

BRING. BACK. THE. SONICS. Seattle legends in the building for Det!

46 YEARS TO THE DAY. GOLD AGAIN. 🇺🇸🥇 #WinterOlympics

Joy is a competitive super power. Alysa Liu retired from figure skating at 16. She was tired of not not having fun, tired of being consumed by her sport. She came back two years later with a new goal: to have as much fun on the ice as possible. And now she’s an Olympic gold medalist. Liu won her first national title when she was just 13. But by 16, after competing in the 2022 Olympics, she decided she’d had enough and stepped away. She said pressure and losing her identity trying to be an elite athlete made it all miserable. But then, she said she went on a ski trip that reminded her just how much fun she could have doing a sport. Something in her brain clicked. Maybe she could bring fun to figure skating. Maybe she could approach it in a way that could be full of joy and life and love. She unretired at 18 and won a world championship the next year. At 20, she was ready to face these Olympic games differently than in 2022. Liu went into the women’s figure skating final in third place. After her short program, she said: “Even if I mess up and fall, that’s totally okay, too. I’m fine with any outcome, as long as I’m out there.” One of the greatest competitive advantages is having fun. People love to romanticize the athlete, artist, or entrepreneur who has a chip on their shoulder, fueled by anger and resentment. But the truth is that if you’re not having fun, you are not going to last long at whatever it is you do, and you certainly won’t get the best out of yourself. There’s a foolish idea that you either have to be full of intensity or full of joy. But that’s nonsense. It’s no surprise one of the first things out of Alysa’s mouth after her free skate was: “That was so much fun!” Joy and intensity can coexist, and in the best performers, they almost always do. Alysa is unapologetically authentic and true to her values. She has said where she used to skate to win and be technically perfect, she now uses competition as a chance to show her art, to have fun, and to put herself out there. She’s a fierce athlete with an infectious sense of joy in her sport. And she broke USA's 24-year gold medal draught in women’s figure skating doing it. Excellence requires focus, determination, a little bit of crazy, at times obsession, and living a mundane lifestyle that many people would find boring. But excellence also requires that you find deep joy in your craft, that you learn how to have fun while working hard. What makes for excellence—and not just in sports, but in anything—is the combination of intensity and joy. It’s the latter that makes the former sustainable.

Williams Football was featured during the Super Bowl Pregame Show! The piece by legendary NFL reporter Peter King includes an interview with one of our student-athletes, Luke Mangini '28, and his father. Watch the full feature on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=obp-YuNC…

Looking forward to joining this panel on AI proof in healthcare!#accountability #traceability luma.com/pb1tzzm5