Chandler Powell

Restoring a 50 year old Land cruiser, fishing for reds, and enjoying the ocean. Angel investor, dad of 3.

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@bscholl Mullet man is back! Hide your girlfriends/wives!

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@ClarksonsFarm1 Well Mr Clarkson, you stole my heart.

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@jeffknox55 Hello from SSI. Its a great place to raise a family.

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@bscholl Where is the dude with the mullet?

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My wife, who is convinced that "love on the spectrum" is staged, just suggested that I audition.

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@elonmusk People don't have ideas, ideas have people.

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@bscholl This will not succeed because the gentleman rocking the mullet will trip over all the ladies throwing themselves at him and become distracted.

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@HLC_actual @SgtDangerCow Want to run asd facilities as a team?

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@DJSnM Getting your IFR ticket is the best thing you can do for your flying.

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@NASAAdmin @SciGuySpace 1983 here. I volunteer!

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@elonmusk You forgot about the power of love! (Just watched back to the future 2)

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@Marswalkerr That is ethereal

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@AppyOrtho St. Augustine has entered the chat.

[Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth @hispanicnomad]

This is the best representation of HR I've ever seen. It's crystal clear, right there

If you watch this video, it might seem like innocent fun at first. They're just doing a little dance, messing around with the girlies, right?

Because that's not a caricature. That's the gatekeeper for your next job

That's the person who decided whether you got a callback after an interview

I remember applying to jobs when I was young. Fresh out of university, motivated, and willing to work. This was before I hated the corporate life

And 99% of the time my CV went straight into a black hole. I never got responses or reasons; it was just discarded by some algorithm, or by someone who couldn't tell the difference between a junior developer and a junior marketing assistant

When I finally had actual skills (when I became a web developer and had something real to offer), I thought it would get easier...

And it didn't

Instead I had to jump through hoop after hoop just to reach a human being who actually understood what I did:

- Personality assessments
- Group dynamics exercises
- Three rounds of interviews with people who'd never written a line of code in their lives, asking me where I saw myself in five years
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You want to talk to the CTO for twenty minutes? First sit through forty-five minutes with someone whose job is to make sure you're "a culture fit"

A culture fit, FFS

For a lot of men I know, starting their own business wasn't some romantic entrepreneurial dream. It wasn't a vision board. It wasn't a podcast-worthy origin story

It was the only door that didn't have a bouncer in front of it

The system didn't want us... So we stopped asking for permission

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

John 14:6

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@CRELeasingLawTX War damn!

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@codyaims Soulless, forgetable, sterile, as if you went to Walmart and said, "I'll take 1 rebrand"

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@pedrocamacho Very cool. Did you also do the wormhole music? If so, you should know that I mentally play that soundtrack when I'm driving up a parking deck, avoiding obstacles.

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@elonmusk Getting it done the right way.

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@ConceptualJames @Fat_Electrician has an awesome episode on the mail-cat