Got an updated version of my college football playoff after this week’s games. Just a couple minor changes

• UCF’s win over Tulane puts them in the driver’s seat for the AAC
• USC benefits from Oregon’s loss and becomes my guess at the Pac-12’s automatic qualifier

It’s been fun seeing folks reflect on their internet lives as we watch Twitter burn.

I loved this post from Becky Hansmeyer. This quote really captures how I feel.

I simultaneously feel a sort of nervous optimism combined with a deep sense of loss

What could be wrong with this

There’s an incredibly simple solution to this, just let all of the conference champs in.

Now every game is important. All the little guys have a very real chance.

Thought I’d toss out my desired college football playoff format and what it would look like this year. I’ve posted about it in previous years (forgive the broken images…) but the TLDR is…

• 12 teams
• Every conference champ gets an automatic spot
• 2 at large spots
• Top 4 conference champs get an automatic bye
• First 2 rounds are at the stadium of the better seeded team, final 4 is at bowl sites just like they currently are.

Without further ado, here’s what the bracket would look like

Obvious disclaimer, we don’t know who will win every conference yet. So the champs and their rankings are rough projections.

Ironically, Twitter could have gotten me to pay for access at just about any time in the past decade. But not now. Not anytime soon

Can we bring back FriendFeed?

Personally I’m mostly onboard with the Ben Thompson school of thought for Twitter. Lean into making it a subscription service.

And if I’m going to tax anything it’s consumption. You want to encourage tweeters and content production. But if you want to follow more than 5 users, you have to pay for Blue. Then you can take a cut of that payment and give it to users with tons of followers.

Paying for verification is silly for most users who are currently verified. The “famous” folks who can currently verified should continue to get verified for free. That benefits Twitter. But if you’re a regular joe and want to get verified, you have to pay for Blue. Then those “famous” users can focus their interactions with other verified users.

I’d also be good with putting more feature behind Blue. Or even as an add on. Want to create or follow a List, you have to pay for Blue.

I’d also lean more into communities. Make it easier to build closed or subscription communities. Cut off those communities from going to discord or wherever else. Let them stay right in Twitter.

Personally I’d love to see more development around tying tweets to live events. Most of my Twitter usage is geared around sports, so I’m biased in that direction. I’d like to see more creativity in that area. I actually thought the idea of Twitter buying rights to sports made a lot of sense. More than a company like Amazon, for me at least.

Maybe the economics just don’t work out 🤷‍♂️ but I’m all about making Twitter a less free service. I’m not going to be active there for the foreseeable future. But I’m keeping an eye on what they do.

Dameon Pierce is an absolute truck 🏈

We’re in the process of trying to get our kitchen redone. Because it’s closed off, has no counter space, and little storage.

What I’m learning is everything is like an order of magnitude more expensive than you think it will be.