Ryan James Mendoza

[Mario @yeatmario]

god himself was in that studio

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Is Messi playing?

[Ryan James Mendoza @RyanJMendoza]

@DPWorldTour @Daniel_Rapaport This guy actually makes me want to kill myself #shrink

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Time to get that volcano lair I’ve always wanted.

I think it’s in the “Beyond” section of BB&B.

[Ryan James Mendoza @RyanJMendoza]

@casualclubguy Chula Vista Golf Course - place has UNBELIEVABLE bones, just needs some love

[Jeff Eisenband @JeffEisenband]

Showing my family my ball and scorecard after I shoot 89 with 1 birdie

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

JPMorgan hired four autistic employees in 2015 as a small test. Six months later, those four were 48% faster than colleagues who'd been doing the same job for three to ten years. In some roles, they were 90 to 140% more productive.

That small test grew into a global program. Today JPMorgan's autism hiring program spans 10 countries and over 70 different job types, with hundreds of people hired through it and 99% staying long-term. Other companies have been doing the same thing, some for longer.

SAP (the German business software giant) started even earlier, back in 2013. They now have 215 autistic employees across 15 countries. One of them rebuilt how the company processes its giant credit card statements (think American Express, 20,000 line items per bill). What used to take 2 or 3 days now takes 20 minutes. 94% of these hires stay.

EY (the consulting giant) started its own program in 2016, focused on automation and data analysis. The team has grown to over 500 people across 23 offices in 10 countries. EY says the tools they've built have saved or made the company close to $1 billion. 92% retention.

Hewlett Packard tried the same idea in Australia, on software testing teams. Same result: 30% more productive than the rest. Microsoft, 10 years into its own program, reports the same kind of gains across its teams.

There's a biological reason. Harvard Business Review and JPMorgan's internal data both point to it. Autistic brains tend to use more of their processing power for visual analysis and pattern recognition. Picture spotting one small bug buried inside millions of lines of code. Less mental energy goes to social cues and impulse control. Add hyperfocus, the ability to lock onto one task for hours without losing attention, and you get a brain built for software, fraud detection, and AI.

85% of autistic adults with college degrees can't find a job. The general US rate is 4.3%. A huge pool of qualified people sitting unemployed, while the handful of companies that figured out how to hire them are getting double-digit productivity gains.

Palantir's new fellowship lands right in that gap. Pay: $110K to $200K plus stock. Over 2,000 applications came in for the first round, and CEO Alex Karp does the final interviews himself. No formal diagnosis required. Karp's own words: "the neurally divergent (like myself) will disproportionately shape America's future."

Reads like marketing copy. 10 years of data from SAP, JPMorgan, Microsoft, EY, and HPE suggest the bigger story is hiring strategy.

[Ryan James Mendoza @RyanJMendoza]

@GlennBowers77 @Emarged That’s cause you’re a water fountain boy - nobody at planet fitness has a tumbler😘 stay in your lane.

[J. Mangual @MLBShotsFired]

Inflation is completely out of control, you can’t even take 3 kids to a Detroit Tigers game anymore without spending an arm and a leg! Crazy!

[Ryan James Mendoza @RyanJMendoza]

@LatestGolfHQ Go away

[Ryan James Mendoza @RyanJMendoza]

@GlennBowers77 @MoveTheSticks Shut up Glenn.

[Ryan James Mendoza @RyanJMendoza]

@DannyJConrad Nobody reading all that.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

The fastest yes I’ve ever given in my life. Yes Barstool would love to compete in the Family Feud. Now to pick what morons are on the panel with me.

[Ryan James Mendoza @RyanJMendoza]

@GlennBowers77 @BryantFerate Why so negative Glenn! Looks like a blast.

Exercise, support from your friends, camping!

Life’s not that bad - I’ve learned a lot from events like this and social media influencers. The get a bad rap, but have an abundance of wisdom you could probably learn from.

Happy Friday

[Carolina Basketball @UNC_Basketball]

up by 19 at the moment.

[Ryan James Mendoza @RyanJMendoza]

@Daniel_Rapaport Go away

[Liam Blutman @Blutman27]

You’ll never forget where you were #Goosebumps

[Eric Hubbs @BarstoolHubbs]

I cannot take anymore sad videos of Punch the monkey. Someone has to do something. Get him out of there

[The Field of 68 @TheFieldOf68]

Melvin Council Jr. discovers he went 6-25 from the floor postgame: "Whoa whoa whoa. 6-25? Who, me? That's CRAZY. Bro, what??"

Flory Bidunga: "I'm telling you bro, you need to pass it around some more" 😂