@MrAdamAp Money wasn’t the reason the players came. Make it about the thing the kids really want and you’ll find success.
Community was always the outcome.
Walmart once promised a truck driver $100,000 if he stuck around for 20 years. He stuck around. He retired with $707,000.
Sam Walton offered that same deal to everyone, including a lady named Gayle who started at the Owensboro store around 1981.
Back then Walmart automatically dropped up to 4% of your pay into profit sharing. You put in nothing. The company funded all of it, mostly in Walmart stock, and the stock went up for 40 straight years. Cashiers and shelf stockers from that era retired with six and seven figures. As late as 2008 Walmart was still putting $724 million a year into retirement money for 839,000 hourly workers.
Then in February 2011, Walmart killed it.
The free money became a 401k match, which only pays if a worker making $11 an hour can spare 6% of her own check. Most can't. The savings went to quarterly store bonuses instead.
So Gayle worked about 30 years under Sam's deal and 14 under the replacement.
Here's the part nobody in the comments will guess. If she was enrolled early, those first three decades of stock may have quietly done more for her retirement than any party ever could. A greeter in a blue vest can be sitting on more money than her store manager.
Everyone's mad about the flowers. The thing worth being mad about happened in 2011, and nobody took a photo of that.
For those wondering - I tried to run a report on which task runs on which model and this will be a backend managed function that you can't see.
Not sure how I feel about it yet. any thoughts?
Important note regarding Grok @Bot:
Going forward, @SpaceX will use the best back end model for any given task, including Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other leading APIs.
Whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome.
Love the "best model for the task" approach. One ask: show users which model handled each task. My Grok Bot runs real work for me (client prep, texts, CRM checks), and when I asked which model was routing what, it said it isn't allowed to tell me. A simple "handled by" label would build a lot of trust.
I see the direction with the live streams for you guys and I like pieces that are authentic. Art and Matteos are good examples.
BUT, your guests are not doing you any favors. You need to find guests that can help the conversation in a meaningful way.
I like Joe Rogan, Sean Ryan, and Chris Williamson because they ask good hard questions. But I normally only stay for guests that are inspiring in the same way.
Most of the player types you are putting in front of the camera are uninteresting.