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🌰 Noah Chestnut

@noahchestnut.bsky.social
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👋 build products for people who like to read, listen, watch, and talk about sports. Now: Product @ The Athletic Was: Buzzer, Bleacher Report, BuzzFeed News, and other spots.

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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Inspired by @minakimes.bsky.social - drop your favorite Down By Bay verses? Our current heavy rotation includes: - Shrimp piloting a blimp - Shark dancing in the dark - Snake enjoying high tea at the Drake (Chicago specific)
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I love Letterboxd too much so I blogged www.plantchestnuts.com/dont-sell-le...
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Don't Sell Letterboxd to Comcast. Sell It to the Fans.
Letterboxd is for sale? Amaze. Amaze. Amaze. While rumors swirl that it may get acquired by a media conglomerate, a streaming platform, a movie theater chain, or maybe a wealthy benefactor, to me it’s...
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I’m old enough to remember when a16z tried to invest in building the next Disney not the next Fox
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Catching up on @reckless.bsky.social's interview with Shishir and fwiw as someone who builds products, I find Shishir's blogging about craft to be super useful (e.g. how to ask questions, run meetings, etc). But during this interview he equates his free blogging (PR) with actual journalism...
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Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra responds to the Grammarly “expert review” controversy, and whether AI is extracting more value than it creates.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Seriously... this is the future we wound up building?!?
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
TBH I am too cynical but 20 years of Basketball Jones, Starters, No Dunks is a gift and ya -- this quilt is incredible
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It's telling that I now spend over $100 a year to read former SBNation bloggers... I'm a nostalgic fool and tbh peak sports blogging was really the best
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Review resumes and it is wild how many resumes are now edited to say they were working on AI back in the mid-2010s Like I get the dance and the reframing but also -- it's okay? This is feeling sad.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Good thread and I'm with Erik that the NBA's tanking problem is a symptom of a much larger challenge with the league. I'll over simplify things but shorten the d*mn season. Fewer games will help reinvigorate the entire league and help the NBA make more money in the long haul.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Pop up newsletters for the Winter Olympics (and this summer’s World Cup) are just… well… the best Sub to @rodger.bsky.social and @theathletic.com - still not too late
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I’m at the age where 30% of my group chats are friends sending grainy YouTube clips of 1990s NBA, NHL, or NFL games Good age tbh
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Sports app!
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Levi’s Stadium (where the Super Bowl is tonight) is in the middle of nowhere but randomly Alviso Marina County Park is a few minutes away and has some of the most incredible salt ponds
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Strands almost gets it now
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
hey, quick update about my fun, free, daily Olympics newsletter: the first of 17 daily entries of my fun, free, daily Olympic newsletter is tomorrow! you can subscribe (for free) to my fun free daily Olympic newsletter here sports.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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Subscribe | Sports! with Rodger Sherman
Covering the unique and untold stories about sports.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This feels... good? Like Spotify helping raise awareness over @bookshop.org is a net win regardless of the rest? newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-05/b...
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Spotify Partners With Bookshop.org and Debuts Page Match Feature to Bridge Physical, E-book, and Audio Formats — Spotify
Since bringing audiobooks to Spotify in 2022, we’ve helped listeners discover thousands of new favorite titles and authors while driving growth in the publishing industry. Today, we’re turning the pag...
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Watching how some prompts an LLM is a mirror to their soul Are they trying to explore an idea and go wide to see potentialities? Are they sitting over someone’s shoulder demanding small tweaks?
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Dropping the paywall on this one www.theverge.com/policy/86745...
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It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun
Nonviolence is a double standard.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This is a good sports app
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Henry Ford would’ve loved X
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Wait… when did gmail get rid of the priority inbox?!? Is this a move to just force me to use Gemini to read my email because all the filters and training are now kaput?
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Back to my bullsh*t While I quibble with the copy and frequency behind some of these noties… … ESPN’s “ditch Twitter and follow our news breakers in the app” works as advertised and is a good to great feature. I wish they kept iterating weekly to make it a cornerstone of their app.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The new Dawn ads featuring cute animated ducklings discussing dirty dishes is a near perfect encapsulation of our culture’s lack of memory or assumed widespread apathy
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Jason Kilar made a lot of ambitious bets running WarnerMedia… but at least the team tried to build their own distribution infrastructure. Selling to Netflix means the only non-tech show in town is Comcast… the future is Google, Netflix, and Amazon with a dash of Apple.
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a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man who says not great bob
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to another man who says not great bob
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Yahoo’s realtime AI generated game recaps follow YouTube TV or Amazon’s “catch me up on the big plays” features These are cool prototypes that are narrowly designed to solve the problem of - I turned the game on with 10m left. It’s a small problem with low stakes www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Yahoo is using AI to recap football games in real time
It’s more than a normal box score
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Subscribe to print magazines! If you live in a place where it still exists, get a print newspaper (at least on the weekends). Leave your phone in another room and it’s wild how much better you feel 30m later.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/11/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Most people don’t dream of spending their baby’s first holiday season in the hospital, and you can make that difficult experience easier for them to bear by donating to Project NICU,” Jessica Grose writes in her giving guide.
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Opinion | Donate This Holiday Season: NICU Parents Need Your Help
The organization provides critical support to families of sick newborns, making a lonely and devastating experience a little less so.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I should just blog this idea out one day... Now that nearly every newsletter sends an annual gift guide (I'm all here for it), consider this my annual proclamation that we need more digital shelving! Diary apps (Letterboxd, Goodreads, etc) and boards (Pinterest) kinda offer this... but not quite!
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
1/4 baked theory: kids who grew up loving Bill Watterson also obsessively admire Robert Caro www.espn.com/nba/story/_/... I say this b/c it me. h/t @lindseyadler.bsky.social for this incredibly reporting from @baxterholmes.bsky.social (Reminder: it is good to read ESPN!)
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How a legendary historian is quietly fueling OKC's championship rise
As OKC GM Sam Presti formed a Thunder team built for a dynasty, he was inspired by a man who has been working on the same project for more than 50 years.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Lolol is this a Thursday night game?
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Puck gonna Puck
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
tbh at this rate all of the established players are just making it too easy for new publications like @thebulwark.com to grow exponentially because the caliber of available reporting talent is off the charts
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Having kids rules. Our individualistic / sink or swim culture does not rule. And it’s wild thinking about how much harder it was for a lot of Gen X and Boomer parents.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/10/2025
unraveledpress.com/support-unra...
unraveledpress.com
Support Unraveled
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In today’s email, @teamziller.bsky.social captures something I’m hoping to be true! NBC will to be my favorite spot to watch the NBA! Combo of the broadcast team, production design, and most importantly they will evolve TNT’s sitcom of Chuck, Kenny, and Shaq www.teamziller.com/giannis-ante...
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Yifan Wu @yifanwu901.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Those are just outfits you can unlock in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
As one of the handful of Tampa Bay fans on this app, fire them cannons! (This is really a dual appreciation post of both Egbuka’s absurd start to the season and JJ consistently posting to this app - he remains one of the best)
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
$150 million for a media business with sub 200k paying subscribers and a circulation business of sub 2m readers is 100% a “you gonna get fired in 18 months” type of move for anyone else… (Yes I know the why here but also it’s worth sitting with the absurd economics of this deal)
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Trying hard to not feel like Kurt Severing this morning (and not wind up as fatalistic) Evergreen recommendation to spend time with Jason Lutes Berlin drawnandquarterly.com/books/berlin...
A single page from Jason Lutes graphic novel Berlin depicting an exhausted journalist at his desk lamenting the cooption of institutions he wants to believe in by craven and violent parties… ending with a brief moment of hope followed by an arresting record scratch
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Disclaimer: Sheil’s NFL podcast is my favorite thing (my wife listens so we can discuss eps) It’s both wild and wonderful that NFL podcasters all join each others shows regardless of who pays for their healthcare. This is what fans want! Yahoo, Ringer, ESPN, The Athletic, etc are all connected.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Ultimately I probably believe that this format of short form microblogging layered on top of massive networks is probably breaking our brains and too open to manipulation. And yes I am terminally addicted and rely on these types of feeds to soothe, entertain, and inform me!
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The core idea of "vibe coding" is to quickly build software that is low quality but kinda usable. It's built in a way where you have no idea how it works. It's a fast. It's kinda usable. It's ultimately crap. Cue Microsoft's "vibe working" vision! www.theverge.com/news/787076/...
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Mike Prada @mikepradanba.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Also: Yes, @jaredweissnba.bsky.social has a new gig covering Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs. I know a lot of folks have asked about more coverage of that team and player over the past couple years. You're all in great hands. Really excited for what he has cooked up this season.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Wait... Sister Jean is 106 and was still on the payroll? Props. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...
nytimes.com
Sister Jean, who cheered on Loyola Chicago’s Final Four run, retires at age 106
Sister Jean became a national symbol of the Ramblers' feel-good underdog story in 2018.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Gotta love the team that thought... well, let's show them a 15 second promotional sizzle reel featuring clips from Family Guy to convince you to NOT cancel that Disney+ / Hulu subscription!
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Everything is glass as @zachseward.com put it (checks notes) 11 years ago theverge.com/news/780757/... Or in other words... everything is ads on glass...
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Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This is an intentional choice! AI deepfake videos on Facebook to a near infinite supply of pirated movie clips on TikTok to literal fake nonfiction books for sale. There’s a key distinction between free speech and businesses who profit off of junk (or worse). Doesn’t have to be this way.
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🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It’s now so d*mn obvious when someone shares a doc that was either drafted by AI or punched up by AI. It’s like auto tune or an early Instagram filter, at first glance it’s not the worst thing but after 5x you roll your eyes. AI is all too often a limiting force for creativity and thinking.
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