Larry Poole

Sharing tips of personal finance, wealth building & #DadLife | Insights on business, culture & purpose-filled living.

[Larry Poole @LarryMPooleII]

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[Jesse Tinsley @JesseTinsley]

Imagine telling someone in 1999…

The year is 2026.

The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.

The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.

Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.

People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.

The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.

Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.

AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.

The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.

You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.

People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.

The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.

And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

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[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

“I have a lot of respect for people who work with their hands.”

Elon Musk

You may not need a college degree. Trades can be good too.

[Larry Poole @LarryMPooleII]

@ReturnOfKappy Not every dumb thought is a conspiracy. Please log off and go outside.

[Larry Poole @LarryMPooleII]

@dieworkwear Saying a mantra or repeating words or phrases doesn’t save you.

Recognizing your depravity (sin) and looking to Jesus as your only hope for salvation is what saves you.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I’ve questioned God about a lot of things over the past few months. But the most rebellious moment was about sex.

One afternoon, reading 1 Thessalonians 4, “Avoid sexual immorality; learn to control your own body in holiness and honor”… It was the last straw for me and I finally admitted something I’d never dared say: this feels intrusive. Why does God care THIS much? It felt like holy micromanagement. Like God couldn’t let humans just… be human.

But as usual, I sat with it, and things became clearer. If you follow Scripture, and biology, God’s concern for the body isn’t intrusion. It’s design and mercy.

Here’s what I mean.

We often picture God as a moral hall monitor peeking into bedrooms. But what if that’s the wrong picture entirely? What if He isn’t an intruder… but the INVENTOR?

If God created us, then He created sex. He engineered hormones, wired pleasure, shaped bodies to experience intimacy, and anchored reproduction to delight. He didn’t have to. He could have made humans reproduce like trees or insects, functional, emotionless, detached. But He didn’t. He wove joy into the very act that creates life. That alone is theological insight: pleasure isn’t a glitch in the system. It’s a deliberate feature in the blueprint of Eden.

So God’s involvement in sex isn’t nosiness. It’s responsibility.

Not all creators carry the same burden of care. If you design aircraft or medicine, you owe the world warnings, guardrails, recalls. The more powerful the invention, the more we expect the inventor to stay involved. That level of power requires stewardship. Sex lives in that category.

Sex is one of the most potent forces in human existence. It creates children, bonds souls, rewires memory, shapes societies. When something can alter destinies like that, indifference is not kindness. Indifference is cruelty.

So if a loving God engineered something that powerful, of course He’d define its context. Of course He’d tell us where it flourishes and where it destroys. In my opinion, that is not control, that is care.

And if anyone thinks that sounds dramatic, please look around.

Sex carries what economists call “externalities”, costs society pays when individuals use powerful things carelessly. Father absence when sex is detached from commitment. The objectification industry feeding exploitation. Women carrying the long-term cost of men’s short-term appetites. Children inheriting instability. Society pretending fracture is freedom.

Consent matters deeply, but consent is the floor, not the ceiling. Consent answers, “Is this allowed?” COVENANT answers, “Who bears the cost? Who carries the consequence? Who protects the vulnerable?”

Covenant is the technology God gave us to internalize the externalities of sex, to bind love to responsibility, desire to devotion, pleasure to permanence. That’s not repression. It’s justice. It’s what love does when it matures past appetite.

God’s sexual ethic isn’t about control. It’s about design, responsibility, and mercy. He isn’t trying to steal our joy. He’s insisting that joy is safe. He’s insisting love has architecture. He’s insisting we treat glory like glory.
Once I saw that, God stopped looking invasive. He looked profoundly responsible.

[C.Jay Engel 🌲 @contramordor]

Underrated post. Share it. Face reality.

[RyanPatrick🇺🇸🦅 @RyanHatesGovt]

Do you know why scuba divers sit on the edge of the boat and fall backwards?

[Alexandra Semenova @alexandraandnyc]

wealth managers putting your money in an index fund

[Larry Poole @LarryMPooleII]

@VinnysCorner1 Kerry Kittles.

[Dougie @DougieDeLuca]

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[Larry Poole @LarryMPooleII]

@BernieSanders Classic conflict theory…pitting one group against another as if wealth is a fixed pie.

It pushes the idea that someone else’s success causes your struggle. Foundational socialist assumption, not an economic truth.

[Larry Poole @LarryMPooleII]

@LivingGodsTruth Dr. Chuck Missler

[Larry Poole @LarryMPooleII]

@DabneyUpNorth @Protestia His church is doing nine Christmas services this year in a single weekend to make room for guests and then taking the next Sunday off — yet people still complain.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

NBC NEWS: "All of these reunions a result of President Trump's peace deal — a remarkable diplomatic achievement."

An incredible day for the entire world — one for the history books.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

I want Forrest Frank to perform at halftime of the Super Bowl.

[Larry Poole @LarryMPooleII]

@chadojackson Chad, you and @REVWUTRUTH John Amanchukwu align on 99% of topics—the gospel, pro-life, education, and more.

I see you both as prophetic voices for this generation.

My prayer: future collaboration.

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

One of the most touching things I’ve ever seen. And the truly right message.