Richard Emmons

Publisher and Editor of the Oregon Eagle. @oregoneaglenews
Founder and Coach helping teens launch businesses

[Nick Hague @Nick_HagueB2B]

HOT TAKE: Not everybody should be an entrepreneur.

That comes from Nick Huber (@sweatystartup), serial entrepreneur, investor and author of The Sweaty Startup, in my latest episode of the World's Greatest Business Thinkers podcast.

Nick used to believe everyone should go out on their own.

He no longer does.

His point is that it is perfectly respectable, and often the smarter choice, to find a great job with a great boss, great colleagues and a good quality of life.

You can still take risk, manage people and apply everything entrepreneurs know, without carrying the weight of building something yourself.

Listen closely to the entrepreneurs.
Learn a lot from the entrepreneurs.

Just don’t assume their path has to be yours.

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

Democrats found a certifiable basket case with tattoos and a deep voice who lives in a house his Dad bought him and farms oysters as a hobby that he sells to his Mom's restaurant. And they tried to run him for office pretending that he's a blue collar commercial fisherman. Proving yet again that the Democratic Party has no idea what working class Americans actually look like or how they think.

[rebelEducator @rebelEducator]

A Brown professor suspected his students of cheating on their exams using AI

He ran the final exam in-person, in the classroom

27 students dropped out or declined to take the test

Only one student (circled) scored higher on their final exam than they did on their midterm

[Joe Polish @JoePolish]

"If you become really valuable and useful to enough people, they will simply want to do business with you because of that."

Joe Polish at I Love Marketing Live - https://t.co/sIQOsZ8eVu

#Marketing #Entrepreneur

[Joshua Sheats @JoshuaSheats]

I'm interested in the full and complete formation of human beings.

Reading.
Writing.
Memory.
Languages.
Mathematics.
Fitness.
Manners.
Religion.
Music.
History.
Travel.
Leadership.
Work.
Money.
Courage.
Mission.
Statesmanship.

The goal is not credentials. The goal is competence, wisdom, and command.

[Joshua Sheats @JoshuaSheats]

I nuked my Twitter account and decided to start over as part of my mid-life crisis. Allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Joshua Sheats. I'm in my early 40s, I'm a husband and father of six children. I'm the host of the Radical Personal Finance podcast (1,200+ episodes), owner of the Life of Fred math and science curriculum, and co-founder of a language-learning app called EchoLingo to teach children languages.

Going forward I will use this account to think out loud about education.

Not "school."

Education.

Education for me and for my children. And hopefully for you and your children as well.

[Richard Emmons @RichardEmmons]

My small town revived the old tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on Independence Day.
https://t.co/PLC9QdqSYk

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

For anyone wondering how a kid can learn six years' worth of math in one year -- really *learn* it, not just "cover" it:

Each circle represents a topic. The darker the circle, the stronger the student's knowledge.

Students systematically master prerequisite topics before approaching more advanced ones.

While pushing forward, they interleave across many learning paths to improve transfer.

They also systematically review previously learned content at optimal intervals to strengthen long-term retention.

What you're seeing is a student's math brain getting wired up under maximum-efficiency learning conditions.

(The animation below is just for one course, a smaller subset of the entire curriculum.)

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Forbes analysis reveals companies are spending more on AI than on the workers it replaced.

[Richard Emmons @RichardEmmons]

@HippyMomPhD I launched https://t.co/R4nHAIIKKf to help teens launch a business to learn about business and become financially literate by saving and investing their profits.

[Brett Pike @ClassicLearner]

Colorado just reported that 10,000 students have been pulled out of public school to homeschool.

This is happening all over the country, and the crazy thing, in my anecdotal experience as the homeschool guy, so many of the parents are public school teachers.

Makes you think.

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Here I present the extensive evidence behind DMSO's ability to treat numerous "incurable" neurological diseases.

This article draws upon over 2000 studies and 200 reports from readers who were healed by DMSO along with practical guidance on how to use it
https://t.co/6vXbJIWpaY

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Well, it was good while it lasted I guess…

[Richard Emmons @RichardEmmons]

@NickDiFabio1 system

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Becky Kennedy flipped how I think about kids’ meltdowns and frustration

She says true resilience isn’t avoiding hard things, it’s learning to tolerate them. When your toddler is losing it over a puzzle and begging “do it for me,” that’s actually your Super Bowl moment as a parent. Those are the times you’re wiring their nervous system for how they’ll handle life later.

Her line that stuck with me: “A parent’s words become a child’s self-talk.”

This one really made me pause. I’ve jumped in too fast to fix frustration instead of sitting with it. Being the “dimmer switch” for big emotions instead of the off switch feels like such a better approach.

We’re not raising kids for an easy life. We’re raising them to handle a hard one. The small moments of tolerated discomfort build real strength.

Have you caught yourself rescuing your kid from frustration too quickly, or are you learning to sit with it?

[Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 @kevinvdahlgren]

I met with candidate for Oregon Governor @dudley4oregon and asked for his thoughts on harm reduction. Sitting right in front of him was a harm reduction kit that had been handed to me in a public park in Eugene, Oregon. What I showed him shocked and infuriated both of us.

[Taegun Lee | IQ 285 @TGLetter]

🚨 HERE'S HOW THE LAST 72 HOURS ACTUALLY UNFOLDED — AND WHY IT MATTERS:

→ May 11-12: White House quietly curates a list of the top 30 business leaders on Earth — personally selected by Trump
→ Jensen Huang added last-minute after Nvidia export approvals cleared
→ Every single one of the 30 said YES — not one declined
→ May 13: Trump lands in Beijing for his first presidential visit to China in nearly a decade
→ May 14: The delegation walks into the Great Hall of the People

And THEN Trump tells Xi directly, on camera:

"We ask the top 30 in the world, EVERY single one of them say yes. And I didn't want the second but the third of the company!"

"I wanted only the top. And they're here today to pay respects to you, to China."

Let that sequence sink in.

→ Elon Musk — the man China competes with in EVs
→ Jensen Huang — the man who controls the chips China needs most
→ Tim Cook — the man whose entire supply chain runs through China
→ 30 executives. Combined net worth of the top 5 alone: $870,000,000,000

This wasn't assembled overnight. It was engineered — deliberately, at the highest level — to send ONE message before a single word of trade negotiation began:

The people who actually move money, factories, and technology are ALL in this room. Together. Right now.

That's not diplomacy.
That's leverage with a handshake.

I'll share more details shortly so turn on notifications, this is VERY important.

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

Oregon passes a new water law.

Starting Jan 1, 2026, a kayak, paddleboard — even an inner tube — is LEGALLY a boat.

No permit? That’s a $115 FINE just for being in the river.

This isn’t about public safety. It’s about enforcing compliance.

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

He’s dead on.