I don’t think much of automatisms, because they assume that a situation is always the same, otherwise the process no longer works. But that doesn’t fit the reality with 22 players on the pitch. If the opponent is only half a metre to the left, the player suddenly doesn’t know what he has to do.
It’s a dreadful thing to be strapped for cash when you are elderly. It’s awful when you’re young, too, but you always have hope.
A little girl once wrote to me saying she was coming to live with me – because Dot always stuck up for her son.
I always felt Dot was one of those characters who should stay the same. She’s a simple creature.
You’ve always got to have something to say, haven’t you? For an interview. Something to talk about.
For me it has always been an uphill battle because my mind’s always racing a mile-a-minute.
As an athlete you have to think about yourself a lot. Think about your body, think about your mind, staying healthy, staying strong, your goals. So it’s always about me, me, me, me.
I’m not bragging but I used to be rather beautiful, with lovely legs, and people would always ask me to dance. But suddenly people didn’t take any notice of me any more. I was at a party in my 50s and was forced to dance with a chair because nobody wanted to dance with me.
No matter what I’ve wanted to accomplish, whether it was raising capital, investing in a startup, or selling a company, legal has always been a cost and a roadblock to the ultimate goal.
My mom is my biggest supporter. She’s been there since day one. She’s always going to have my back.
In fact, I’ve had many lawyers who I felt provided excellent advice and service during important decisions or difficult times. That being said, I always wondered why the law firms that serve the most innovative technology companies in the world rarely adopt innovative software or try to improve their business operations.
Because our site was live video, and because our backend was extremely unstable, we were always in a PTSD-inducing constant state of stress.
I was always so engrossed with being successful that that was my worth and my identity. And then when things weren’t going well, I felt like I was worthless.
What I learned: if you’ve done something you think the public is going to react badly to, you can’t delay it, hide from it, or ignore it. You have to address it head on and take your beating. Always take your beating.
Our goal has always been to make broadcasters on TwitchTV feel like they own their channel pages, and we’re continuing to make incremental improvements there.
Broadcasting something live from a remote site has always been the sole domain of large media corporations with access to satellite trucks.
It’s an Olympic year, man, and crazy stuff always happens in an Olympic year.