Want to be successful?
Learn the language of the rooms you want to enter.
Want to be unstoppable?
Learn the language of getting things done.
Then the room matters less.
You do.
Michigan has a Lawnmower Economy.
That is my phrase for a low-road economy: plenty of real work, but not enough work that compounds.
Grass grows. Snow falls. Machines break. Houses need maintenance. Restaurants need hourly workers. Factories need hands. The work is necessary. But too much of it resets every day, every season, every winter.
The data matches the feeling. Michigan ranks 50th in household income growth over the past 25 years. Real median household income is 35th. Per-capita GDP is 36th. Educational attainment is 35th. Fourth-grade reading fell from 16th to 44th. High-wage professional service jobs grew 35% nationally while staying flat in Michigan.
That is not an immigration problem. It is a ladder problem.
When immigrants do not show up, Michigan does not win. An aging state with more deaths than births needs people, talent, risk, and ambition.
Michigan has too few ladders.
AI is disrupting religion.
Not by replacing God, but by entering the space where humans have always searched for guidance.
For centuries, religion gave people structure in the face of fear: confession, discipline, moral clarity, ritual, story, community, and the courage to keep going when life made no sense.
Now AI offers a different kind of presence.
It is tireless. Nonjudgmental. Always available. It can sit with your doubt, organize your pain, challenge your excuses, and help turn confusion into language.
For many people, religion was the only place where suffering could become meaning.
Now a machine can do part of that work.
The question is not whether AI replaces religion. The question is what religion becomes when guidance is no longer scarce.
What remains sacred when anyone, anywhere, can ask for clarity and receive an answer?
We are excited to share our plans to build a new, state-of-the-art global headquarters at 2 World Trade Center, reaffirming our company’s deep commitment to Lower Manhattan. Read more about this announcement here: https://t.co/0w5bfp5bqx
Software engineers once coded in garages; now they’re reshaping the world. Electric cars, global internet, AI in healthcare—their innovations have moved off the screen and into our daily lives. It’s more than tech; it’s a new way of living. https://t.co/RsjYvPQQiX
As Harris struggles to craft a compelling message, the risk grows that Trump could capitalize on her communication gaps, reshaping the 2024 election narrative and steering the country in a direction that challenges the current political norms https://t.co/gm0WQLzJwm #VoteForOurFuture
Getting there wasn't easy. Just five days earlier, I found myself in the ER, and the doctors quickly arranged emergency surgery for the following day.
My wife, always optimistic despite her health challenges, was also struggling. She has battled chronic AS for over twenty years. But we made it to @DouglasEmhoff's first political appearance after the DNC in Chicago, standing behind him to hear his message and show our support.
Thank you for visiting Grand Rapids, Michigan, Doug, and for bringing Kamala’s message of hope and joy to our community.
#Kamala4President2024
Located in the jungle on Waigeo Island in Kali Biru, West Papua, Blue River is an oasis of crystal clear, cold, blue waters flowing through lush jungle vegetation.
On this day, May 1 in 1999, the body of George Mallory was found on Chinese slope of Mt #Everest (8848.86 m) by American climber Conrad Anker @conrad_anker. Mallory was missing with his partner Andrew Irvine since 1924.
"A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety."
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Ansel Adams
b. 20 February 1902