FAFO brings together live conversations, real-world events and Copilot-powered analysis across sport, music and culture — with expert guests, questionable predictions and a healthy willingness to follow the interesting bit
Category: On Control
What is FAFO?What is FAFO?
FAFO isn’t content. It’s conversation. Live. FAFO is two things – Live streams from real events: sports, music, culture and technology, from wherever and whenever the atmosphere is doing its thing.
FAFO: Le Tour Daily – Tour de France 2026FAFO: Le Tour Daily – Tour de France 2026
Daily coverage of the Tour de France, combining Copilot-powered forecasting and analysis with expert voices from inside cycling to explore performance, strategy, culture and the business of the sport. 2026
What are the things in your life you can control? And what are the things you can’t? Focus entirely on the former.What are the things in your life you can control? And what are the things you can’t? Focus entirely on the former.
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Player King says: ‘Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.’There are billions of scenarios that you can dream up and for things to
Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey.Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey. Don’t think of a pink monkey.
When someone tells you ‘Don’t panic!’ or ‘Don’t get stressed’ or even ‘Don’t worry’, the last thing that your brain hears is: ‘Panic!’, ‘Get stressed’ and ‘worry’. But it doesn’t
Does being congratulated for something out of your control just consolidate that it’s okay to also pin your hopes on those things (ie. things you can’t control?Does being congratulated for something out of your control just consolidate that it’s okay to also pin your hopes on those things (ie. things you can’t control?
If you get accepted into something, or approved of for something, or given something based on your performance… yes, you had some control over getting it, but largely (or sometimes entirely)
The Philosophy of: Sarah Connor (in Terminator 2) – There’s no fate but what we make for ourselves.The Philosophy of: Sarah Connor (in Terminator 2) – There’s no fate but what we make for ourselves.
Your future is decided by you. It isn’t set. Every day, there are hundreds, or thousands of decisions you make in your own mind of how to deal with things
The Stoicism(?) of Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll – Did the Seattle coach just undermine his own belief in his players (and/or in himself)? [+ The -for reals- Stoicism of: LA Chargers Quarterback Philip Rivers]The Stoicism(?) of Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll – Did the Seattle coach just undermine his own belief in his players (and/or in himself)? [+ The -for reals- Stoicism of: LA Chargers Quarterback Philip Rivers]
Seattle head coach Pete Carroll is one of the most recognisable Stoics in the world (at least in the world of sports). And today, the Seattle Seahawks needed to win to