Bret Michaelsen 🐊

Adventure Traveler | Love Thai food. Tweets about #Salesforce #Cloud #DigitalMarketing #CRM, #SocialBiz. #GoGators - IronMan Finisher.

[Bret Michaelsen 🐊 @BAM_Social]

Claude Code in Action - Practical walkthrough of using Claude Code to accelerate your development workflow https://t.co/m36OcKmwIy

[Bret Michaelsen 🐊 @BAM_Social]

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[FLORIDA @UF]

.@NVIDIA co-founder and @ufalumni, Chris Malachowsky, encourages the newest class of Gators to care deeply, keep learning and build momentum.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history.

He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough.

RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Jonathan Givony @DraftExpress]

NEWS: Unicaja Málaga's Artūras Butajevas has committed to Florida, Tadas Bulotas and Aaron Klevan of The Team told DraftExpress.

The 6'10, 19-year-old big man has been a dominant player for Lithuania's national teams at the FIBA level for years, making his ACB debut at 17.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Kevin O'Leary: The 80/20 signal-to-noise rule Steve Jobs & Elon Musk used to outperform everyone

"I used to work for Steve Jobs in the early 90s making all of his educational software. I would say, 'Steve, we've got to do some market research on Oregon Trail. It's in 110,000 school buildings. It's going to cost you 12-15 million bucks. We want to find out what the students want, what the teachers want, what the parents want.'"

O'Leary shares Steve's response:

"Steve would say, by the way, not a nice guy, not a nice guy, he would say to a room full of people: 'Kevin, I don't give a shit what the students want or the parents think or anybody thinks. It's what I want. They don't know what they want till I tell them what they want.'"

O'Leary pushed back:

"I said, 'Steve, you sound like such an asshole. You have no idea what that sounds like.' He said, 'No, no, that's how it is, Kevin. Are you making money with me? Am I your fastest growing OEM? Have we not been wildly successful and continue to be?' I said, 'Yes, Steve, that's true.' He said, 'Then shut up and do what I say.' That's how he would talk to you. 100%."

O'Leary explains what he learned:

"There's a concept that he understood that very few people focused on back then, signal-to-noise ratio. His vision of signal was the top 3 to 5 things you have to get done in the next 18 hours. Not your vision for the business next week or next month or next year. Just the next 18 hours you're awake. You're going to get those 3 to 5 things done that you have deemed critical for your mission. They must get done today. Anything that stops you from doing that is the noise."

He shares the ratio that made Jobs successful:

"For Steve Jobs, the signal to noise ratio to be successful was 80/20. 80% signal, 20% noise. And I knew that to be true with him because he would email me at 2:30 in the morning and expect me to get back to him."

O'Leary compares Jobs to one other person:

"The only other person I've seen with a higher ratio than that is Elon Musk. He has no noise. He does not deal with noise. He is 100% signal. 24 seconds of every 30 seconds. 60 seconds of every minute. 60 minutes of every hour. The 18 hours he's awake, it's all signal. And look what he's achieved."

He acknowledges the tradeoff:

"That's very awkward for him socially, because noise is dealing with your family sometimes. Noise is saying hi to a friend. Noise is doom scrolling on social media. Maybe playing your guitar. But very few people on Earth, and if you go back in history, you'll find that the geniuses of their time were close to 100% signal."

O'Leary shares another example:

"Bezos will not make a decision after 1:00 in the afternoon, because he felt that the noise was too high. The signal for him was in the morning hours."

He summarizes the lesson:

"This is a crucial aspect of success that I now understand. It defines an entrepreneur. A man or woman that understands the signal-to-noise ratio, that focuses on that, they'll be successful. The ones that can't, that get down to a 50/50 signal to noise, they'll fail. It's that simple."

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

BREAKING: Four-Star QB Davin Davidson has Committed to Florida, he tells me for @Rivals

The 6’6 215 QB from Sarasota, FL chose the Gators over Auburn, Georgia, and Kentucky

“History repeats itself…Gator Nation, See you at the top!”

https://t.co/hiW5oUWr1I

[Carlos-cryptofinanzaslibres @escapasistema]

Un profesor del MIT dio la misma conferencia cada enero durante 40 años, y cada una de las veces no cabía ni un alma en el aula.

La vi a las 2 de la mañana y cambió por completo mi forma de entender la comunicación.

Su nombre era Patrick Winston. La conferencia se titula "Cómo hablar" (How to Speak).

Su frase de apertura te golpea como un camión: "Tu éxito en la vida vendrá determinado en gran medida por tu capacidad para hablar, tu capacidad para escribir y la calidad de tus ideas, en ese orden".

Ni tu nota media, ni tus títulos, ni tu coeficiente intelectual. Cómo hablas es lo que separa a las personas que son escuchadas de las que son ignoradas.

Este es el esquema que inculcó a los estudiantes del MIT durante cuatro décadas:

1) Nunca empieces con un chiste: Empieza diciendo a la gente exactamente qué es lo que va a aprender. "Prepara la bomba antes de verter nada". Él lo llamaba la "promesa de empoderamiento": dales una razón para no levantarse del asiento en los primeros 60 segundos.

2) La regla de las 5S: Para que una idea se quede grabada debe ser: Símbolo, Slogan, Sorpresa, Saliente (relevante) e Historia (Story). Cualquier idea que valga la pena recordar cumple al menos tres de estas.

3) La técnica del "casi acierto" (Near Miss): Esta parte me dejó alucinado. No te limites a mostrar lo que está bien; muestra lo que parece estar bien pero no lo está. Ese contraste es lo que hace que el cerebro registre algo de forma permanente.

4) Su regla final: Termina con una contribución, no con un resumen. No recapitules lo que ya dijiste. Dile a la gente qué les has dado que no tenían antes de entrar por la puerta.

He usado este esquema en ventas, entrevistas y presentaciones desde que lo vi, y los resultados no son sutiles.

Patrick Winston falleció en 2019, pero esta clase sigue siendo gratuita en el OpenCourseWare del MIT. Una hora, vista por millones de personas, y no cuesta absolutamente nada.

Video: "How to Speak", Patrick Winston, MIT OpenCourseWare, RES.TLL-005, January IAP 2018.
Fuente: MIT OpenCourseWare.
Licencia: CC BY-NC-SA.
Términos: ocw. mit. edu/ terms

[Salesforce Partners @partnerforce]

The future of AI is partner-led. 🚀

Salesforce is evolving our Consulting Partner Program to help customers become an Agentic Enterprise by focusing on one metric: customer outcomes.

Join our launch webinar tomorrow, 3/3 at 10AM PT to learn more: https://t.co/Qqw9FxlXWQ

[CG @cgtwts]

> Anthropic just launched a free AI academy with 13 certified courses across MCP, APIs, Claude Code and more.

> it’s completely free

[Will Thomas @wthomassports]

The Florida Gators are officially in play for a one seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The Gators sit at 6th in the Net. Illinois, who was 4th, just got handed their 7th loss of the year in double digit fashion on their home floor.

Gonzaga is at 5th in the Net, but they aren’t among the top seed line.

If Florida wins out, and wins the SEC Tournament, they’re a strong suitor for the final one seed in the bracket.

This team started off 5-4, but they’re without question one of the best teams in the country, and a threat to go back to back.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

A blog post just wiped $30 billion off IBM in a single afternoon.

Not a product launch. Not an earnings miss. Not a competitor undercutting on price.

A five-minute blog post explaining that Claude can read COBOL.

IBM dropped 13%. Worst single-day loss since October 2000. Twenty-five years of stock resilience ended by one AI company publishing a capability update.

Here’s what happened:

95% of ATM transactions in America run on COBOL. Hundreds of billions of lines power banking, airlines, and government systems. The developers who built them retired decades ago. The knowledge left with them. Finding engineers who can even read COBOL gets harder every quarter.

IBM’s moat was never the technology. It was the fact that nobody else could understand it. Entire consulting empires existed because the code was too old, too tangled, and too critical to touch. Companies paid IBM billions because the alternative was catastrophic system failure.

Then Anthropic published a blog post saying Claude Code can map dependencies across thousands of lines of COBOL, document workflows, identify migration risks, and translate legacy logic into modern languages. Modernization in quarters instead of years.

The market heard: the priesthood just lost its monopoly on the sacred language.

And this isn’t the first time. Last week Anthropic announced Claude Code Security for vulnerability scanning. CrowdStrike dropped. Okta dropped. Cloudflare dropped. One company is serially destroying legacy moats with blog posts.

Now here’s where it gets surreal.

This same company, on the same day, also published evidence that three Chinese AI labs ran 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million exchanges to steal Claude’s capabilities. DeepSeek used it to build censorship tools. MiniMax pivoted within 24 hours when a new model dropped, redirecting half its traffic to steal the latest version.

And yesterday, the Pentagon summoned this same company’s CEO for what officials called a “sh*t-or-get-off-the-pot meeting,” threatening to blacklist them like Huawei for refusing to let the military use Claude without safety restrictions.

Three stories. One company. Twenty-four hours.

The company destroying legacy moats faster than the market can reprice them is simultaneously being threatened by its own government and looted by foreign competitors.

Anthropic is valued at $380 billion. Its CEO says a 12-month delay in AI would make him bankrupt. The Pentagon wants to designate it a supply chain risk. Chinese labs are running industrial espionage against it. And it just proved it can vaporize $30 billion in market cap with a Monday morning blog post.

Whatever you think about AI disruption, IBM’s stock just settled the argument.

Full institutional analysis on my Substack.

https://t.co/AEv8EMPdsZ

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Trump called out the "foreign interests" behind the Supreme Court's tariff decision — and it's NOT just China.

The same week, 60 nations answered his call at the Board of Peace.
One system is dying. Another is being born.

Watch the full Saturday Wrap👇

[Florida Gators Football @GatorsFB]

Get to know Buster Faulkner 🐊

📺 https://t.co/rE7HMeLEOE

@Buster_Faulkner | #GoGators

[Ayesha Tabassum @ayesha3920]

THAT’S WHY AIRLINES HATE CHATGPT

Flight: $879. I paid: $299.
No points. No memberships. No VPN.

Here are the 8 prompts I used to travel like a pro ↓

[jack friks @jackfriks]

1 hours a day spent marketing my app (making + posting 6 videos)

30,000 downloads with this routine last month, 100% free.

you too can grow any b2c app for absolutely free, no paid ads.

yes YOU CAN. YOU READING THIS.

HERE IS HOW TO GET 1000S OF DOWNLOADS THIS MONTH TO YOUR APP FOR FREE:

- if you are struggling to get downloads to your app then read this NOW, if you bookmark it, you aren't gunna take action on it... okay lets go.

Open new account (instgram or tiktok first, or BOTH) scroll on it for 2 days, 15 min/day in your target audience. Save any videos you see that you could remake to promote your app (yes you'll need to think creatively for this)

On day 3, make some content! Based on 1 of the saved videos you have.

Make sure the comment, caption or end of video CTA is related/relevant to your app. If you just want views but no downloads, whats the use of this?

Start with 1 post/ day and after 30 days of this if you didnt hit a reel with 500k views then feel free to DM me if you need help.

Try to see what other apps are doing (can even look at mine) , and keep trying new formats, this is all about testing, but know that it IS POSSIBLE.

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Once you find a winning format, double down on it. Each apps "winning format" is unique and this may take more than a month to find a true winner. Took me 300+ videos for my app. Now i post 3 a day on one account and 2 a day on another.

Don't rush into posting a million videos. Posting ONE a day that you have put reel creative thought into is much better than spraying out 2,3,4,5,6+ a day.

Stick to 1 a day per warmed account (account that is new and you scrolled on without posting for 2 days in your target audience)

Aim for short videos as algo LOVESSS watch time and comments. These are your two goals. MAKE content that drives comments and watch time

What type of content drives these the best? GOOD CONTENT! not slop. You can go viral if you let yourself try hard enough and keep going. I know you can. and it will be a nice boost to your app downloads and revenue.

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okay now stop bookmarking this and just go do it, open a new account on tiktok/ instagram and warm it up.

I prefer instagram as main, then reupload to YT, TT and all others at the same time via @postbridge_

finally yes, the screenshot you see below is from my own tool post bridge. this is how ive been able to post AND MAKE 6 videos a day now after finding a winning format for my app that drives downloads. I upload and schedule all my apps content using this and it takes 10x less time!

You can do the same for $9/ month (10x cheaper than the cheapest service out there for this same thing)

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HOW TO WARMUP ACOUNT RECAP:

Make new account, scroll on it for 15 mins /day for 2-3 days. Scroll, follow, comment and like posts that YOUR APP or product is relevant to only. This helps the algorithm know where to push your content to first. This is CRITICAL for tiktok especially as its hard to change later. You should never buy Old accounts, they suck, and are very hard to warm up or change the existing set audience. I use same email for all my tiktok accounts, most little things dont matter like this. If you dont get views following this then its most likely your content is not that great. Keep trying, and don't be afraid to stop posting for 2-3 days if you cant break 500 view mark on TT or IG.

OKAY NOW GO GO GO TRY IT!

[Julian Goldie SEO @JulianGoldieSEO]

Instead of watching a 2 hour movie on Netflix, watch this masterclass on Google Antigravity and thank me later.

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

JUST DROPPED: Trump vs. Wall Street

Kevin Warsh just declared "regime change" at the Fed. Jamieson Greer invoked Hamilton at Davos. $18 trillion flowing to Main Street.

The Republican New Deal isn't a slogan—it's happening.

The globalists are terrified.

👇 WATCH

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 GLOBALISM JUST DIED IN DAVOS

Howard Lutnick just walked into the lion’s den — and told the World Economic Forum exactly what they didn’t want to hear.

“Globalism has failed.”

Not whispered.
Not softened.

Declared — on their own stage.

He dismantled the entire WEF doctrine in minutes:
• Offshoring hollowed out the West
• Cheap labor destroyed innovation
• Net Zero made Europe dependent on China
• Sovereignty begins with borders
• Nations must control their industry, energy, and medicine

Then came the line that shook the room:

“Why would Europe agree to Net Zero when they don’t even make a battery?”

That’s the truth globalists can’t answer.

Green agendas without industry.

Climate pledges without sovereignty.

Moral posturing while outsourcing power to Beijing.

America First isn’t isolation.

It’s independence.

And Lutnick made it crystal clear:

The old model is finished.

The globalist experiment has failed.
And the future belongs to nations that put their people first.

Davos just heard the obituary — live.