Hello! Hello! I’ll be back home in Paris in less than two weeks! Because I’ll be taking you along — it’s fun to remember that this newsletter launched in Paris in 2021 and that we’ve been back there together a few times since — I thought you might want to get into the mood ahead of time. Of course, you could pull out your beret. Learn a new way to knot a scarf.

“Happy Jesus Year!” was the well-wish-du jour around my birthday this January 28th. Texts, calls, in-person exchanges with friends, it was a constant chorus. I had never heard the phrase before, which refers to a person’s thirty-third year of life. The year of his life where Jesus (at least the one of Christian theology) was flogged and crucified under Pontius Pilate, entombed after his death, and rose from the dead three days later.

What To Expect: Today’s newsletter breaks down the economics behind sports broadcasting contracts, including why networks hand out $100 million-plus contracts and Greg Olsen’s upcoming contract dilemma with Fox. Enjoy! Greg Olsen is good at his job. Like, really good. The former All-Pro NFL tight end is one of the few NFL analysts on television today that everyone either loves or at least doesn’t hate. He isn’t polarizing. He’s always prepared, and he has an innate ability to educate viewers by breaking down complex situations into digestible soundbites.

The most influential figure in my BJJ lately has been Greg Souders. Like many of you, I’ve been trying to implement ecological dynamics into my training. Unfortunately, I don’t own a gym, so I haven’t been able to eliminate conventional teaching and go full in into ecology as my only way of training to test and contrast and get to conclusions on my own. Apart from implementing the actual “games” and ED approach, Greg Souders has made a huge impact (whether it was his intention or not) in something that has been a game changer in the past months.

Working fourteen hours on the line, day after day, in the best restaurant in America, where the head chef Charlie Trotter was sometimes as mercurial as Terence Fletcher, the drum teacher from the movie Whiplash, was as demanding as any restaurant cooking job in America.  Chef Giuseppe Tentori, of GT Prime, would never say that. In fact when I asked him about those long hours, he didn’t complain. Rather he immediately said, “It was exactly what I signed up for.