Carter Challance

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[Carter Challance @CarterChallance]

Knowledge and an educated persons and/or people don’t have a “look”.

Remove your biases and see people for who they are and what they bring to the collective resource(s).

Acknowledge a person’s agency, their totality of experiences, their perspective, their wisdom, their integrity and their authenticity and wisdom.

- @CarterChallance

[Brad Lea @TheRealBradLea]

A person who doesn’t defend you while someone slanders you, is your enemy too.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

you’re allowed to be rude to people who disrespect you. being polite to asshøles is not growth.

[SellMortimerSell @SteveTheobald70]

@anna_bahr What do you think landlords did before credit scores? This is not good news for renters. Landlords are going to become much more conservative.

[𓀎 @yapittarius]

another reason my grudges are so nasty is cuz i really do give people so much grace and it viscerally disgusts me when they take that for granted

[LaShawn @MsISIS131]

Listen,
Don’t mess with Roker.
And don’t lie to him either.
And don’t try to BS him either.

I was right here with him giving Billy Bush the bidness and stirring the heck outta that margarita. This is the clip that keeps on giving.
🤗💜💫✨

[dank @cptdankkk]

Draymond Green says his first major lesson about taxes came after taking a $60,000 NBA salary advance and only receiving $28,000

“My first contract was three years, $2.6 million. I think I got drafted June 26. You don't get your first check until November 15. So from June 26 to November 15, you have to find a way to bridge that gap before you start getting paid”

“Then once you sign your contract, which I didn't sign until after Summer League because as a second-round pick, you have to make the team. I didn't sign my contract until August. I didn't have any money”

“In bridging that gap, the NBA allows you to take an advance of up to 15% of your salary as soon as you sign the contract. So I took out a $60,000 advance, and it hit my account, and it was $28,000. I'm excited. I've never seen $28,000, and it's right there”

“So I called my agent and said, ‘Yo, this is amazing. It's $28,000 in my bank account. But where's the other $32,000. I'm missing some money’”

“He's like, ‘Well, you know, taxes.’ I said, ‘What are you talking about. I'm supposed to get money back from taxes. He's like, ‘You're no longer in the position where you're going to get money back from taxes’”

“Learning that right there at the very beginning, and understanding that anything you make, you can almost count it for half because half of it is going to the government. That immediately taught me you don't have as much money as you think you have, and you won't have as much money as you think you're about to make. That was really big for me”

[zaza @zazaxbtt]

Jay Leno says he turned down retirement learned how to do everything to take care of his wife with dementia

‘When you get married you take a vow will I live up to this or will I be like a sleazy guy something happens to my wife and I’m out banging the cashier at the mini mart no I didn’t’

‘I enjoy the time with my wife I go home I cook dinner for her we watch Tv it’s basically what we did before except now I have to feed her and do all those things but I like it I like taking care of her she’s very independent woman’

‘She goes honey I love you I said you’re having a nightmare go back to bed she couldn’t stop laughing and to me that’s what’s fun I got a laugh out of her’

[DON G @KINGGGE_]

I'd spent thousands defending myself.
Neither of us got our money back.

My friend said the buyers were justified in suing because hidden defects often leave homeowners with no other option.

To this day, I still wonder how many lawsuits begin not because someone lied, but because no one can prove what another person actually knew.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The NBA's $76 billion TV deal is currently on hold because one 41-year-old won't say where he wants to work.

Adam Silver, the commissioner, admitted it today: the league cannot finish the 2026-27 schedule until LeBron James picks a team. Teams are calling. Networks are calling. The answer to all of them is "we're waiting on LeBron."

The story gets wilder when you know the context. LeBron is the oldest player in the NBA, entering season 24. He's also still one of its best: he just dragged the Lakers to the playoffs, then announced he was leaving. Three franchises are reportedly in the running.

Here's why one player freezes a $76 billion machine. The NBA is one season into an 11-year deal with Disney, NBC, and Amazon. Those partners split a fixed pool of premium inventory: opening night, Christmas Day, the big national windows. LeBron has played on Christmas a record 20 times, the last 19 seasons straight. Wherever he signs instantly becomes a Christmas team, an opening week team, and a 25-game national TV team. Until he signs, none of those slots can be assigned. The whole calendar is downstream of one man's group chat.

Run the math on what's waiting. $76 billion over 11 years is roughly $7 billion a year in media money, and the schedule that deal was priced on can't be built. So the commissioner of a $7-billion-a-year league is doing interviews politely asking an employee of one of his 30 teams to please make up his mind.

No other league works this way. The NFL schedules around teams. The NBA schedules around a person.

[RealGold⚜️ @justRealGold]

Years after Aaron Hernandez’s death, Tim Tebow revealed the part of his story most people never heard.

Tim Tebow became emotional while talking about his former teammate, Aaron Hernandez.

He said one of the biggest frustrations is that people often reduce Hernandez's story to his crimes without acknowledging the full picture.

Tebow made it clear he wasn't defending Hernandez's actions. Instead, he said there were moments the public never saw… times when Hernandez struggled, tried to change, and endured racist abuse that was left out of the headlines.

He recalled one incident that was widely portrayed as Hernandez looking for trouble.

According to Tebow, they had actually been trying to leave when people repeatedly insulted, dehumanized, and provoked Hernandez before he finally snapped.

Tebow's point wasn't that Hernandez was innocent.

It was that even people who commit terrible crimes are still human beings, and their stories should be told truthfully, not selectively.

[Neto @docneto]

Many don't like to hear this but likeability is a valueable trait that you can and should cultivate. Dress well, be well groomed, smell good, smile, be friendly, be optimistic, show love and respect, be interested in people, do unrequited things for them then watch life blossom.

[Isaac Bassey @0xBassey]

Mark Cuban says becoming a billionaire was partly luck, partly hard work, after selling Broadcastdotcom for $5.7 billion

“Life is half random. You know how I got to be a billionaire? I was born at the right time so that when internet technology really took off, we were able to start Audionet, which turned into Broadcastdotcom, the first streaming company.”

“I could turn around and sell it for $5.7 billion in stock. That was luck. Being able to do all the work and learn how all the technology worked—that was work.”

“The other half, though, I had no control over. I didn’t control when the internet stock market was going to go up or when it was going to go down.”

“Life is half random. It’s what you do with the half you can control that really sets the tone for your entire life.”

[aether @bluewdrift]

Confidence doesn't come from believing in yourself. It comes from having done the uncomfortable thing enough times that your nervous system stops flagging it as an emergency. Because nothing is actually hard, it's just unfamiliar.

[Petite Ebony Girl 🇵🇸 @PetiteEbonyGirl]

The threat of homelessness and hunger can be quite coercive

[Ryan Daigler - Exposing Narcissistic Abuse 🚩🚩 @Ryan_Daigler]

Stay away from the people who trusted your abuser’s narrative about you without even bothering to ask you directly. They weren’t looking for the truth.

[Jani Gem 🌶 @Jani__Gee]

This is such a beautiful perspective.

“Your comfort is your comfort… There's no medal for giving that up."

[Carter Challance @CarterChallance]

This

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

I cannot emphasize how important college can be for poor kids, if only because there are a million social cues that betray your poverty and college is a great time to learn them and evolve.

[Stefan Smith @TheStefanSmith]

I cannot emphasize how important college can be for poor kids, if only because there are a million social cues that betray your poverty and college is a great time to learn them and evolve.

[Globethotter 🌍 @BrianMcLight]

Tracee Ellis Ross has two, extremely successful, 8 season series to her name. Both having 170+ episodes. Most actors are lucky to see that level of success once.

Shes so impressive.

[purple🍃✨ @doseofpurple_]

George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.

It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.