Steve Netniss

Proud Assyrian/American | Cofounder of the Assyrian Podcast | Founder of Get Set Tech | Certified Google Workspace & Chrome Expert | Human

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I renewed my Google Workspace Admin certification for 2 more years! I have what it takes to leverage @GoogleCloud technology https://t.co/eupduNyRxw https://t.co/pw7SdrrW1Y via @accredible

[U2 @U2]

Representing the Irish in Chicago…

Bono, The Edge, and Jacknife Lee performed a stripped back rendition of ‘City of Blinding Lights’ on Thursday at the ceremony opening of The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

@ObamaFoundation

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This mindset

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Jameis speaks da truth

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the GOAT!

[John Butler @Saintjohnbutler]

Drew Brees showing off that accurate arm, finding Robert Meachem for 6.

[Monday Night War Stories @YEAHRevolution_]

4 Life🤘

🎥 @90sWWE

[Bill Gibson @BillGibsonHTPS]

📣Join us for a discussion on Al Frameworks & Curriculum Integration
📆May 19th 12:30-1:30pm
You're invited! → New Jersey Area Google Education Leadership Program: EdTech/Admin Leaders Q2 Meeting
Google Meet: https://t.co/9QPkVYw0ED
#AI @GoogleForEdu #GoogleForEdu #EdTech

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not a good look for Jimmy Kimmel.

[GME DaLoot @gmeorbust0]

$GME Hey @jimmykimmel Have you done your DD, dont make fun of the little guy when you almost got Cancelled off Air entirely,
Who saved you? Americans that fought for you to stay on air by boycotting your parent company?
Who saved GameStop? Americans that fought corrupt system.

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@InTheBayouPod It sounds like they got their ego hurt and don't like the fact that a player had so much influence. Good leaders know how to lead people like that, insecure phonies drive them out.

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@BradleyGrinnen they gave it all they got. couldn't do it without tatum

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@arielhelwani Early stoppage

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@hermiz88 @AramaicWire The Lord told him to abstain

[GameStop @gamestop]

The Nintendo Game Boy released 37 years ago today.

[Good Morning America @GMA]

The Los Angeles Unified school board has voted to require screen time limits and encourage the use of pen and paper for assignments, becoming the first major school district to do so. @SamChampion reports.

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Like this if you believe "Paste and Match Style" should just be paste.

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@SabrinaAnnLynn Glad you addressed it. Just to add, this kind of cheer is also part of Assyrian culture. We call it kalkelyata, and most Assyrians aren’t Muslim.

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I don't know if it is my algo's but X is total slop. What a waste of time and energy this platform has become.

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@ryancohen See @HOFVillage they are a total scam and their CEO left after robbing people of millions.

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A must read tweet

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

The Hollow Men

American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.

By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.

These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.

In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.

Today, we have severed that link.

We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.

If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.

This looting starts in the boardroom.

We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.

Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.

And for what?

Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.

They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.

And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?

We get the Delegation Economy.

When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.

This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.

They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.

While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.

If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.

The time for polite governance is over.

If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

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Thoughts on this guy: https://t.co/D30CsCHSoq

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My favorite part of this commentary is when he says “I’m incredibly confident”