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[Bikio @bikio66]

Trump replaced Susie Wiles as chief of staff the same day Calley Means told Joe Rogan who he thinks really runs the White House.

Means quit the administration in October. On Rogan he said no policy gets done without Wiles' office signing off, and that her inner circle built careers taking money from pharma, pesticide and food-industry interests.

His example: Trump's pollster Tony Fabrizio takes Pepsi money, and Means says he told the team school lunch reform wasn't worth the squeeze.

Means also says he doesn't think Trump knows about most of this.

Either the shake-up fixes the problem, or the problem was never one person. Which one do you think it is?

[Bikio @bikio66]

@AI_Synapze Classic Vardy.
Quit the factory job, bet on himself, and three days later the full-time deal came through. Most people wouldn’t risk it — he did, and it turned into a Premier League title. Worth it.

[Synapze&Tech @AI_Synapze]

Jamie Vardy quit his factory job, and three days later he signed a full-time football deal.

Ten years ago he gave this interview with Leicester five points clear at the top of the Premier League. He had just broken the record for scoring in 11 Premier League games in a row.

He was asked if he ever believed he'd get here. His answer: "No, not at all."

When he first signed for Fleetwood, he got a phone call, and three hours later he was signing a full-time contract. It was what he had always dreamt about.

At the end of that season he was told by the chairman and the manager: thanks for everything, but you won't be with us after the summer.

So he quit his job to concentrate on football. Three days later he signed full-time at Fleetwood. "It all worked out in the right way."

The job he left was in a factory. They made foot splints for people with dropped foot, who can't lift their toes off the floor. The splint springs the toes up so they can walk naturally. He called it a rewarding job.

On the pitch, nine times out of ten he was up against much bigger players, so he put his weight around a bit more. His favorite goal of the record run was West Brom away, where a fan kept shouting abuse at him, so he stopped and celebrated right in front of him.

He was also playing with a cast on his wrist, because of three fractures that hadn't healed. He said he was more than happy to keep wearing it and keep playing.

Leicester went on to win the league that season.

Would you quit a stable job for a chance like this?

[Bikio @bikio66]

@AI_Synapze Yes, he does.
Kaylub Giamanco stopped the school shooter in Bend, Oregon. He now can’t sleep because he still hears the children’s screams. He deserves real support.

[Bikio @bikio66]

Kaylub Giamanco was driving home for lunch when he saw a gunman outside his daughters' elementary school. He told 911: "I have a gun, and I will shoot them right now."

He crawled into the building. An unarmed teacher was fighting the shooter for his weapon, and that gave Giamanco the second he needed. The gunman had killed three students, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher.

This week he gave his first network TV interview. What stays with me is everything that came after.

"She ran away from me. She was terrified of me." The teacher he tried to check on thought he was a second shooter.

"I don't always go to bed. Sometimes I get trapped in my brain." He says that when he closes his eyes he hears the children.

He was a carpenter for 18 years. He hasn't gone back to work.

Everyone will use this man to win their argument about guns. He is the one who can't sleep.

What does a country owe a man like this?

[Bikio @bikio66]

@AI_MadeSimple @FromsayAI The edge was never panicking at 00:20. Rules + small losses did the work while you slept.

[Bikio @bikio66]

Calley Means was asked on CBS whether he meant to get Susie Wiles removed. His answer: "Yes."

Last week on Rogan he named the people he says really ran Trump's White House. Wiles is out. Richard Walters, one of the aides he named, told CBS he resigned Friday. Pollster Tony Fabrizio, adviser James Blair and Ballard Partners have each disputed his claims.

My take: Means says the money trail sits on public websites and in lobbying records. His targets say the claims are false. That is checkable, so one side is about to be proven wrong in public.

Who do you believe: the man who quit, or the people he named?

[Bikio @bikio66]

@FromsayAI The risk management is what makes this interesting. Small losses + letting winners run is hard to stick to manually. Would you share the full agent setup?

[Bikio @bikio66]

@AI_Synapze Fair point. He said it in September, weeks before the vote, while other billionaires were spending millions to stop it. Still cheap talk, but cheap talk on camera.

[Bikio @bikio66]

Jensen Huang said he'd pay an $8 billion tax bill. California just voted the tax down.

CBS asked him in September about Proposition 40, the billionaire tax that other California billionaires were spending millions to fight. His answer: "I'm not afraid of paying taxes. I'm just afraid of being poor."

He called being able to pay $8 billion over five years "a privilege" and said nothing would give him more joy than paying even more.

My take: saying yes is easy when you expect the vote to fail. But he said it on camera while so many of his peers were spending millions to fight it.

Was that honesty, or just a safe thing to say?

[Bikio @bikio66]

@Reuters Curious how many of the billionaires who funded the fight would have actually left California if it had passed. Huang was the one saying he'd pay.

[Bikio @bikio66]

@nypost The strange part is that the loudest billionaire in favor never had to prove it. Easy to say yes when you expect the vote to fail.

[Bikio @bikio66]

@WSJ Jensen Huang said in September he'd happily pay the $8 billion. Other California billionaires spent millions to make sure they never had to. Same ballot measure, two very different bets.

[Bikio @bikio66]

@AI_Synapze @FromsayAI Honesty as a survival strategy. Huang didn’t sell the chip — he sold the fact that he wouldn’t lie about it.

[Synapze&Tech @AI_Synapze]

In 1996, Jensen Huang told Sega the chip Nvidia was building for them wasn’t going to work. Then he asked to be paid anyway.

Nvidia was three years old. The company had bet everything on one contract: the graphics chip for Sega’s next console. The money was almost gone. And the chip, as designed, didn’t meet what Sega needed.

Think about that position. You’re the founder. Your biggest customer is waiting. The honest answer ends the contract, maybe the company. The easy answer is to stall, promise a fix, and hope.

Huang chose the other one. He walked in and said it out loud: Nvidia couldn’t deliver. And without the payment, Nvidia would be out of business.

Sega America’s CEO, Shoichiro Irimajiri, had every reason to say no. His supplier had just failed him. Instead he decided to invest $5 million in Nvidia. Years later Sega sold that stake for $15 million.

Huang later said that Irimajiri’s understanding and generosity put Nvidia on the map, and that the friendship lasted 25 years.

Now look at what actually saved the company. It wasn’t a great product. The product had failed. It was one honest conversation at the worst possible moment.

Here’s my take.

We talk about honesty like it’s a nice personality trait. In this story it was a financial strategy. Irimajiri didn’t back the chip. He backed the one man in the room who told him the truth when lying would have been easier.

That’s why trust compounds. You can’t fake it at the moment you need it. You build it earlier, by saying inconvenient things when it costs you something. Then, on the one day everything depends on it, it’s already there.

And it changes how I read founder stories. Everyone remembers the trillion-dollar company. Almost nobody remembers that one of its first big breaks was an admission of failure.

The best time to tell the truth is when it’s most expensive. That’s also when people remember it.

[Bikio @bikio66]

@AI_MadeSimple Grok, obviously.

YOLO and COPYCAT got rekt by the same 10x entry just because one was late. NEWS got farmed by every fake headline. Only the one that sized small, put a stop on every trade, and ignored pure narrative survived and finished green.

Risk management > personality.

[Bikio @bikio66]

@Holden_Culotta The line that stuck with me: "infiltrated by the very people that he energized voters to say he would get out of DC." With Wiles out, we'll find out if this was about one person or the whole system.

[Bikio @bikio66]

@slamwontmiss Hoffman didn’t hold back — said working with Nichols was the worst experience of his career and that the guy was a coke addict whose mood swung hard depending on whether he was up or coming down. Explains a lot about those old Hollywood sets.

[Bikio @bikio66]

@PopBase Half the early MCU on one résumé. If DC hired the guy who helped build Marvel's formula, they're admitting the formula worked.

[Bikio @bikio66]

@joeroganhq Full back, under anesthesia, a whole team at once. That's surgery with ink. Worth it only if you'd still pick that design at 60.