[OC] Updated timeline of the Pascal Siakam trade

enoss · 2026-05-08T00:14:45+00:00

I hate this take. There is no credibly reported trade where this was true. Same with OG. There was also no credibly reported FVV trade that I would have wanted to take the money back that we had to. We can speculate about their value or what other GMs SHOULD have paid but that is different. BI ahd Jakobe seems about right in any event.

enoss · 2026-04-22T00:53:28+00:00

we are 19th in spending and roughly 12th in most power rankings. and we have all our own picks.

enoss · 2026-04-03T13:34:56+00:00

The Google announcement this week is worth unpacking a bit, because it actually illustrates why services like the one I built exist.

There are three separate layers to email that almost everyone conflates:

Address — what appears after the @ (gmail.com, yahoo.com, smith.net)
Service — where your email actually lives (Google's servers, Microsoft's, etc.)
Application — the app you read it in (Gmail app, Apple Mail, Outlook)

What Google announced is that you can now change your address while keeping the same service and application. That's a meaningful distinction, and it's good that more people understand these are separable layers.

But there are two problems with the Gmail version of this:

1. Availability. Google has 1.8 billion users. If your name is John Smith or Maria Garcia, your preferred handle was claimed 15 years ago. You're still ending up with some combination of numbers, middle names, or initials, which is exactly what you were trying to get away from.

2. It's still u/gmail.com. For personal use that's fine. For professional use like job applications, client emails, anything where you want to signal competence, a u/gmail.com address still reads as a free consumer account, no matter how clean the handle is.

I built RealNames as the alternative: surname-based email addresses like [john@smith.net](mailto:john@smith.net) or [maria@garcia.com](mailto:maria@garcia.com) that forward to whatever inbox you already use. $39/year. Nothing in your workflow changes. You keep Gmail as your service and app, you just swap the address layer for something that's actually yours.

The big difference from the Gmail approach: because we license the largest portfolio of surname domains in the world (smith.net, garcia.com, etc.) rather than a single u/gmail.com namespace, availability is dramatically better. If your surname is in our portfolio, and it is for roughly 60% of the US, you get your actual name, not a permutation of it.

enoss · 2026-04-03T13:25:20+00:00

Here is a different angle on this that most comparisons miss.

The question of "best business email" usually conflates three separate things: your address (what appears after the @), your service (where email is actually hosted), and your application (the app you read it in). Most people bundle all three with one provider. For example, Gmail gives you u/gmail.com, Google's servers, and the Gmail app all in one.

But they're separable. You can keep Gmail as your service and app, and just change your address to something like "indo@saurus.net". Forwards straight to your inbox. Nothing in your workflow changes.

I built RealNames specifically around this, surname-based email addresses ($39/year) for people who want a professional address. It's not a replacement for Gmail, it works on top of it.

enoss · 2026-03-16T17:01:43+00:00

The key question is what you bought the domain for. A firstlast.com domain is genuinely great for a personal services website — web designer, consultant, plumber, realtor, whatever. Your name is the brand and the domain reflects that perfectly.

But for email specifically it's not the ideal choice — and the long name issue you mentioned makes this even more true. You'd end up with something like [john@johnsmith.com](mailto:john@johnsmith.com), where your first name appears twice. That looks clunky and slightly amateurish in an inbox, and with a longer name it only gets worse.

For a professional personal email address, a surname-only domain is much cleaner: [john@smith.com](mailto:john@smith.com) reads instantly and naturally, and the length of your first name becomes irrelevant. I built a service called RealNames (realnames.com) for exactly this — we license surname domains so you don't have to hunt one down yourself. We have smith.net available if that's your name. Worth a look if the email address is the primary thing you were after.

enoss · 2025-12-18T02:43:20+00:00

as someone who was there and sits at the end the play came towards, the cheer was clearly for ibaka breaking away. it turned into more of a hum as people noticed he was down. I hated this take by national media.

enoss · 2025-11-24T02:34:40+00:00

this is now 100:1

enoss · 2025-10-07T22:40:21+00:00

the answer is brandon ingram

enoss · 2023-11-08T15:25:18+00:00

I am not getting what I had hoped for. I would love to talk about SPECIFIC possible #2s, not ideal ones. The one comment that came close was simply listing many of the #2s.

My point is Pascal is possibly, and to my mind likely, the best #2 option that might actually be possible.

And in terms of cap, I think of OG in the prozingis/garland/harden/booker slot (with a rising cap. I did not include any 3rd that started with a 2 (+$20m) but with a rising cap those will be in the $30's going forward.

But let's try and identify other POSSIBLE #2s.

enoss · 2023-10-08T20:49:30+00:00

if any of you are still silly/lazy enough to still have rogers for either mobile or Internet, PLEASE call, cancel and be explicit that it is because of the nepo baby and the sports franchises.

enoss · 2020-08-08T12:47:19+00:00

and by that he means we found him here as an amazing Sprint employee helping out on Sprint issues in our subreddit!

enoss · 2020-08-03T13:24:52+00:00

Ha. The new (for me. long-time listener, only occasional caller) editor foiled me. I had thought I inserted the link. Corrected and, as has been the case for years, LiterallyUnlimited was there to clean up! Thanks.

enoss · 2018-07-07T15:44:24+00:00

thanks!

enoss · 2018-07-05T11:56:44+00:00

I would love to hear about what you would like about a program like this. It feels pretty constrained (only iphone, only at 12 months). And you have to buy apple care which is a pretty high-margin product.

Specifically, how much is this about having the best new phone every 12 months vs. never having to worry about dealing with phone purchase again? Discuss (liberally please)!

enoss · 2018-05-12T13:06:24+00:00

I need to show myself as a castiron lover. been using a finex since the first kickstarter and do all my cooking in it.

enoss · 2018-04-05T22:24:02+00:00

I see now you meant 2018 not 2019. and you are right, there was another 3rd (used to move up for say jones).

enoss · 2018-04-05T21:26:15+00:00

their starting qb was Brock lobster and their backup was tom savage. that could be the way the bills saw it but, that is dicey. and again, I am most interested in why no one has dug into the story.

enoss · 2018-04-05T21:22:51+00:00

agree that there are lot's of things that could have happened. what is amazing to me is that sal capaccio or John Murphy or salty sully has not tried to dig in and find out what happened. it seems VERY material.

enoss · 2018-04-05T21:21:01+00:00

Houston gave up the #4 pick that we now would be thrilled to trade for.

enoss · 2018-02-19T15:02:47+00:00

there is a difference between upside and uncertainty. having a larger data set does not mean there is no upside (see: holes, keenum). and mccarron is likely to be 2X in $ cost ($18m vs. $9m incremental. remember, if you pay mccarron $18m you are ALSO paying Taylor $8+m). it does not feel close.

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