Amanda P.

Communications Executive. Founder of the Social Impact Group. Powered by faith and cold coffee.

[Amanda P. @LivingUnited]

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[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Take care of your parents, just as they took care of you. Be loving and present.

[Kelly Phillips Erb @taxgirl]

Do you know what’s actually happening between your gross pay and what lands in your bank account?
Withholding, FICA, W-4s, worker classification, trust fund taxes, recordkeeping + more:
10 things to know about payroll (plus a bonus):
https://t.co/DsrE1p30ob

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je ne sais pas si vous mesurez ce qui est en train de se passer.

Alex Karp, le patron de Palantir, ne va plus chercher ses talents à Harvard. Il les forme lui-même. Des jeunes de 18 ans, sans diplôme, choisis sur leur seul talent, qui codent sur de vrais projets et lisent de la philosophie politique entre deux sprints. Il appelle ça « le diplôme Palantir ». Et aujourd'hui le New York Post titre que les boîtes tech lancent leurs propres programmes parce qu'elles ne peuvent plus compter sur l'Ivy League.

Ce n'est pas une anecdote RH. C'est un basculement de civilisation.

Pendant des décennies, les entrepreneurs ont confié à l'université la mission la plus sacrée qui soit : former les esprits. Ils comprennent aujourd'hui que cette mission a été trahie. Les institutions censées produire des penseurs libres produisent des conformistes. Le mérite a été remplacé par des critères opaques. L'enseignement est devenu catéchisme. Paul Graham l'avait vu avant tout le monde.

Alors ils font ce que font les bâtisseurs quand un système les trahit. Ils ne le réforment pas. Ils en construisent un autre, à côté.

Elon n'a pas attendu que la NASA se réveille, il a fait SpaceX. Il n'a pas réformé les médias, il a racheté la place publique. Les entrepreneurs ne cherchent plus à convaincre l'État. Ils font l'État, partout où l'État a abdiqué.

Relisez La Grève d'Ayn Rand. Nous y sommes. Les bureaucrates gardent les titres, les budgets, les bâtiments. Mais ils perdent la seule chose qui compte : la confiance. Aux États-Unis, à peine 28 % des gens font encore confiance aux médias. Un plus bas historique. Plus personne ne croit ceux qui prétendent nous dire quoi penser.

On entend partout que l'école est finie. Je pense exactement l'inverse.

Ce n'est pas l'école qui est morte. Ce sont les institutions qui l'ont confisquée. L'école, la vraie, celle de l'Académie d'Athènes, des ateliers de la Renaissance, du maître et de l'apprenti, va renaître. Plus exigeante. Plus juste. Sans dette, sans dogme, sans diplôme comme rente à vie.

Une école qui ne fabriquera plus des diplômés, mais des polymathes. Des esprits libres, capables de coder, de penser, de construire et de douter. Ce sont eux qui créeront la valeur des cinquante prochaines années.

J'ai appris à coder seul à 12 ans. Aucun amphi ne m'a appris ce que j'ai appris en construisant. Je sais ce que devient un talent quand on le laisse respirer.

L'université a eu des siècles pour former les meilleurs esprits. Les entrepreneurs vont le faire en une décennie.

La grande reconstruction a commencé.

[Laura W. @BumpstockBarbie]

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?

Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.

Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.

Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.

Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.

Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.

There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.

There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”

Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??

And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?

Your body started as ONE CELL.

ONE.

And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?

The iron in our blood was made inside a star??

We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?

We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

[Bible Gateway @biblegateway]

Think you know your Bible creatures? 🐉 Start with Job 41:1–34 on #BibleGateway.

Wondering what else is lurking in the pages of Scripture? Take a look at our News & Knowledge article, “Giants, Dragons, and Unicorns? A Bible Monster Bestiary.” 📰 https://t.co/hHPYVQ1boA

[Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey @wakeupnj]

Shark 🦈 on the Streets of Atlantic City New Jersey 😳

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The problem is not people being uneducated.

The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Professor Richard Feynman

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Yale has nearly one bureaucrat for every undergraduate student — 6,401 management and professional staff and 6,667 undergraduates.

Since 1995, Yale’s bureaucracy has increased 147% while the student population has increased only 43% (and the undergrad population only 25%).

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: US officials are moving to cap how much profit utilities can take

[The 74 @The74]

The biggest predictor of whether a child receives special education services should not be how effectively their parents can advocate. Yet for many families, that’s exactly how the system works. @ncldorg https://t.co/UHhgsh9ZbE

[The 74 @The74]

.@ChadAldeman: With vacation breaks, long weekends and religious holidays, 180 days of instruction in Fairfax County, Virginia, stretch out over 297 days. The same is happening in other districts https://t.co/rH0NIc5zV3

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

🚨 We’re calling it: Summer is over in DC.

After 50 days of 90+ heat and one of our 10 hottest summers on record, the pattern has finally flipped.

70s today. 60s Tuesday and Wednesday. And no sustained heat in sight.

Welcome, fall. 🍂

Link: https://t.co/H1XOVPElJ1

[The Data of Everything @TheDataHubX]

When Did These Things Come Into Existence?

1. 🌐 World Wide Web - 1991
2. 📱 Smartphones - 1994
3. 🛒 Amazon - 1994
4. 🟨 Yahoo! - 1994
5. 🔳 QR Code - 1994
6. 🛍️ eBay - 1995
7. 📀 DVD - 1996
8. 📱 Nokia 9000 Communicator - 1996
9. 💳 PayPal - 1998
10. 📧 Hotmail - 1996
11. 💬 ICQ - 1996
12. 🔌 USB - 1996
13. 📶 Wi-Fi - 1997
14. 🎬 Netflix - 1997
15. 📺 Digital TV - 1998
16. 🔎 Google - 1998
17. 🟦 Bluetooth - 1999
18. 📷 Camera Phones - 1999
19. 📱 BlackBerry - 1999
20. 📹 TiVo - 1999
21. 🎵 Napster - 1999
22. 📝 Blogger - 1999
23. 🎮 PlayStation 2 - 2000
24. 📖 Wikipedia - 2001
25. 🎵 iPod - 2001
26. 🎮 Xbox - 2001
27. 💼 LinkedIn - 2003
28. 🎮 Steam - 2003
29. 📞 Skype - 2003
30. 👥 Facebook - 2004
31. 📧 Gmail - 2004
32. 📸 Flickr - 2004
33. 🌐 Google Earth - 2005
34. ▶️ YouTube - 2005
35. 🗺️ Google Maps - 2005
36. 🎮 Nintendo Wii - 2006
37. 🐦 Twitter - 2006
38. 💿 Blu-ray - 2006
39. 📱 iPhone - 2007
40. 📚 Kindle - 2007
41. 📂 Dropbox - 2007
42. 🤖 Android - 2008
43. 🛍️ App Store - 2008
44. 🎵 Spotify - 2008
45. 🏠 Airbnb - 2008
46. 🚗 Tesla Roadster - 2008
47. 💻 Google Chrome - 2008
48. 💬 WhatsApp - 2009
49. 🚕 Uber - 2009
50. ₿ Bitcoin - 2009

[Amanda P. @LivingUnited]

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[Stephen Gibbons @Gibboanxious]

Chris Farley's wild 1996 entrance on Letterman, where he tosses a guy into a dumpster. I'd love to have one tenth of his natural energy.

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

Today is the third Friday of September, also known as National Tradesmen Day. To celebrate, a young and cheeky editor at mikeroweWORKS has assembled a video to remind the world about what I looked like 18 years ago, back when I boldly proclaimed my intention to reinvigorate the skilled trades with some sort of ad hoc PR initiative.

Looking back, I think you’ll agree my performance – delivered after several beers on Labor Day of 2008 - was a fairly cringe-worthy spasm of uncharacteristic earnestness. It was, however, well-intended, and useful I think, in rallying others who shared my sentiment. In fact, a few years later in 2011, when Irwin Tools decided to launch National Tradesman Day, they called upon me to announce the occasion, which I was delighted to do. In return, Irwin donated $10,000 to my newly formed foundation, which I used to help fund our first round of work ethic scholarships.

Since then, lots of other likeminded companies and organizations have asked me to help them launch similar efforts to reinvigorate the trades, including the latest initiative from the Pentagon called https://t.co/IhaBSMIY6b. I agreed, and in return, Build Freedom has donated $10 million dollars to mikeroweWORKS, which we’ll spend on the next round of work ethic scholarships. And so, we appear to be trending in the right direction.

Anyway, enjoy the attached video, a genuine blast from my past, and hopefully, an accurate look into the future. Better yet, share it with it someone in the trades, and help us commemorate National Tradesman Day by reminding the country that many excellent opportunities in the skilled trades are waiting to be filled, and that mikeroweWORKS is here to pay for the training you need to get started.

Apply today at https://t.co/ju76O0XWgC

Carry on,
Mike

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

We don't hand out many 10/10s, but Tuesday earns one. ☀️

Sunshine. Low humidity. Highs 75–80. Just about perfect.

Then warmth and humidity make a comeback, with temperatures potentially flirting with 90 Thursday and rain chances later in the week.

Full forecast at https://t.co/r3dKxepf5m

Photo by Eden Scott

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Want to set yourself apart from most men?

Start with the little things.
• Wake up early
• Make your bed
• Begin the day with prayer or mediation
• Exercise
• Decide the 2–3 things that matter most and do them first
• Sit down for lunch, don’t eat at your desk
• Eat dinner at the table without the TV
• Take a walk after dinner
• Put your phone away an hour before bed
• Write down tomorrow's priorities, then prioritize a good night's sleep

None of these will change your life overnight, but practice them consistently and you might be surprised by the man you become.

What would you add to the list?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 More California students are graduating with straight A's than ever. The problem is a lot of them can't do basic math.

The number of UC applicants reporting perfect 4.0 GPAs or higher has doubled in a decade, jumping from about 53,000 in 2015 to over 103,000 for the class of 2025.

But state test scores tell a very different story. Only 30.5% of California 11th graders were proficient in math last year, and 57% in English.

More than 1,200 UC professors have now signed an open letter saying they're stuck teaching "middle school" math in calculus classes, and want the SAT requirement back.

If a 4.0 no longer tells you whether a student can do high-school math, what exactly is the GPA measuring? Makes you wonder, is that a California problem or is this happening elsewhere too?

Source: California Post / Writer: Julie

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Xbox CEO personally answers player support tickets to hear real complaints firsthand and figure out what players don't like