10/5/24

Howdy,

Going west from Lisbon to the US is surprisingly easy; it’s the trip back that I find jet lag to be a weeklong ordeal.

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New board Game: Hues and Cues

While visiting friends in Austin a few weeks ago, they introduced us to a new board game called Hues and Cues. (It came out in 2020, but was new to us.)

As someone who hates pure games of chance and often gets too competitive in purely strategy games, this is a great mix.

The basic idea: draw a card and describe the color in one word (then in two words during the second round). Players place markers on what they think the color is. Both the cue giver and the guessers get points for being correct and close to the correct color.

Idea:

Airport Golf Competitions

Hear me out on this one…

There is basically nothing to DO in airports.

So, what if you were walking town the terminal and saw a bar where someone was hitting shots on a golf simulator?

And what if that golf simulator was a closet-to-pin competition with a skill-based raffle component?

And for just $10, you could take a swing to see how close you can get to the pin on a 152 yd par 3, for instance.

And at the end of the day, the person with the closest shot get’s $500, or $1000, or some percentage of the shot entries.

And if you happen to have more time on your hands, wouldn’t you sit there, have a cocktail, and watch others take their shots to see how close they can get?

And you can watch a leaderboard not only at your current airport but also see competition leaderboards from other locations on a screen.

Have to catch your flight, check the leaderboard on a website to see if you’re still in the lead.

This is my idea…. who wants to back it!

Thought:

YouTube Premium

I’ve had a YT Premium subscription for almost exactly a year now, and I am really loving it. I held out for so long because, first, I didn’t want to pay for it, and second, I convinced myself the ads were relevant.

Both were dumb reasons.

Besides enjoying the content ad-free now, I’ve recently started to download videos before a flight and then watching them in the air. It’s awesome.

On a recent flight, I watched:

This Alex Hormozi piece of gold: 13 Years of No BS Business Advice in 79 Mins
This All In Summit interview: John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs | All-In Summit 2024
A demo of the new Meta AR glasses: Exclusive: We tried Meta's AR glasses with Mark Zuckerberg
And a few golf videos like this: Exposing a random golfer's TRUE handicap... I like watching amateur golf—there’s something great about seeing other people who aren’t that great either.

Watching YT on flights is kind of the perfect balance of wanting to be entertained while also learning something or doing something somewhat productive when you don’t feel like working.

I still feel like YT is significantly under the radar, despite how big it already is.

See ya next month!

-Troy