In the corporate world, you're useful until you aren't.
If you're fortunate enough to have a job, now is the best time to start preparing for that reality.
So let me get this straight, I go to the grocery store and buy … a pound of sliced turkey in a plastic bag, a loaf of bread in a plastic bag, a gallon of milk in a plastic jug, a pack of napkins in plastic wrap, a store-made salad in a plastic tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and ketchup, but they won't give me a plastic straw for my drink because the plastic is bad for the environment? 🙄😂
ABOLISH THE DMV!
Californians can pay OVER $1,000 a year to register their cars—the highest rates in the country for the WORST roads.
And we stand in line all day at the DMV just for the privilege. ENOUGH!
I’ll cap vehicle registration at the base fee of $73 and SHUT DOWN this bloated, bureaucratic agency once and for all.
Number of Jews in Egypt: 10 (total population: 100 million)
Jordan: 0 (10M)
Saudi Arabia: 0 (34M)
Lebanon: 100 (7M)
Syria: 0 (17M)
Iraq: 4 (39M)
Iran: 8,300 (83M)
Number of Arabs in Israel: 1.9M (9M), with full civil rights.
But sure, Israel is the apartheid state.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Founders love the idea of hiring one magical person who takes all the chaos off their plate. A COO, an integrator, a rockstar operator.
It rarely works. You're trying to hire one person to do the job of five.
Past $2M, you need five leaders, each owning one lane:
Head of Marketing: traffic, leads, CAC
Head of Sales: conversion, close rate, revenue
Head of Fulfillment: retention, delivery, margin
Head of Finance: cash, budget, profit
An EA: your calendar and your time
Hire for one function at a time, starting with your biggest bottleneck. Stop looking for a hero. Build the team.
The biggest lie in personal finance is that you can cut your way to rich.
You can only cut so much. There's no floor on frugality, but there's no ceiling on income either.
Spend less if you need to. But the real leverage is always on the income and equity side, not the coupon side.
@niconley@mhp_guy That is 100% the best advice you’ve been given. And 100% the toughest to do sometimes. I would add…..you are the male, lead like a man. That means you are the “most” selfless in the marriage. But you still “lead”.
12 Disciples all men. 66 books of Bible, ≈ 40 writers, all men. Lineage to Jesus all men. 100’s (if not 1,000’s) of male leaders in Bible all men. Adam was first. Bible female leaders like Deborah? < 10. There’s a pattern here. It doesn’t mean women are less than. It’s like chemical makeup of H2O. Takes 2 parts of hydrogen vs only 1 part of oxygen. But if we didn’t have that 1 part?…yikes! The strength of men so necessary but life doesn’t work without the help of our women. We know and love that and should never minimize it. Wise, God-fearing men don’t. We lead with wise and God-fearing women beside us. Praise God for His family chemistry.
12 Disciples all men. 66 books of Bible, ≈ 40 writers, all men. Lineage to Jesus all men. 100’s (if not 1,000’s) of male leaders in Bible all men. Adam was first. Bible female leaders like Deborah? < 10. There’s a pattern here. It doesn’t mean women are less than. It’s like chemical makeup of H2O. Takes 2 parts of hydrogen vs only 1 part of oxygen. But if we didn’t have that 1 part?…yikes! The strength of men so necessary but life doesn’t work without the help of our women. We know and love that and should never minimize it. Wise, God-fearing men don’t. We lead with wise and God-fearing women beside us. Praise God for His family chemistry.
Democrats: “You can’t just rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. That’s not how reality works!”
Also Democrats: “Anyway, this is Jessica. She used to be Steve.”
Dear Lord,
Thank You for another day to walk by faith instead of sight. Keep my family wrapped in prayer, my heart rooted in Your Word, and my soul hungry for Jesus.
Help me work hard, stay humble, love my neighbor, and have enough sense to let You handle what I can’t. Bless our churches, protect our communities, and pour Your mercy over this nation.
Lord, keep our Bibles open, our knees bent, and our hearts full of Jesus.
In His mighty name, Amen. ✝️🤠🇺🇸🙏
Muslims have a plan to make America a Muslim nation.
Marxists have a plan to make America a Marxist nation.
Secular Progressives have a plan to make America a Secular Progressive nation.
Christians seem to always have a plan to keep Christianity from further influencing our nation by discipling people into political apathy (“we don’t get political”) or political ambiguity (“Jesus isn’t a Republican or Democrat, neither Right nor Left” = primary application of gospel to culture)
^^^this has had very predictable results for the last few decades
🇺🇸 A college student asked Genesee County one simple question about its Flock cameras: where they are, who looks at the data, and whether they scanned my car.
The county said no, claiming those records belong to the private company.
Problem is, their own contract says the county owns the data., so Josh Tewolde is suing.
Government puts up the cameras, collects the plate hits, then hides behind a vendor when the public wants answers.
If the taxpayer wants the records, that's a fair demand.
Writer: Lucas
Flock has 120,000 cameras tracking cars across America, no warrant required. Over 5,000 police agencies have signed on. This isn't crime fighting. This is mass surveillance of every American, and a violation of our 4th Amendment rights.
In 2001 George W Bush proposed a partial privatization plan for Social Security so you could put 10% of your SS contribution into the markets.
People rejected this.
We can now see that if it had passed, the 10% that went into the markets would have outperformed the 90% the government managed, the program would be solvent, and the average SS recipient would be receiving 2X what they currently receive.
The worst bet you’ll ever make is betting on government.