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words to live by : stay groovy ~ pike

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@GarethCliff Dont answer the calls.. unless you urgently waiting for a call from a number you dont know.
Answering the call registers that your number is active.. and they want to know this. Dont let them know.

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@GarethCliff We have a serious problem. I get maybe 10-20 calls a day. About a year now. & some have my info. I dont answer any.. except on days I'm expecting a call from a number I don't have saved. Its very very bad. Not just you. The ones that have my personal info are the most scary!

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

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@AbsaSouthAfrica I paid up a credit card 14 April. Am called, told I overpaid &send refund info. Supposed to take 2 days. Since then I call & get told to email. I email & told to call. I needed the paid-up letter by 30April (today). What can I do?! Have +- 8 ref no's. Pls advise

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@Absa
I paid up a credit card 14 April. Am called, told I overpaid &send refund info. Supposed to take 2 days. Since then I call & get told to email. I email & told to call. I needed the paid-up letter by 30April (today). What can I do?!? I have +- 8 ref numbers. Please advise.

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@NickinNewYorks @ARCRaidersGame 😅

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@SwipeWright I got shadowbanned or my tweets deleted or something like that years ago for tweeting -
#learntocode

And supporting

#gridgirls

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@GamewithDave

[Mike Abel @abelmike]

The Yogurt Theory of Company Culture

I know. You’re already tired of the word.

Culture.

It’s been stretched so thin by corporate overuse that it’s almost transparent. Posters in lifts nobody reads. Value statements in reception with the emotional reward of an out of office reply. Decks full of smiling people who may or may not still work there - or never worked there.

So let me try something different.

Let me talk about yogurt.

Stay with me 🥄

The power of yogurt is not in the packaging. Not the typography. Not the even aspirational Scandinavian name. It’s in the live culture inside. The active strain. The thing that multiplies steadily over time, and strengthens the gut or doesn’t.

And gut health, we now know, is everything. Healthy gut, resilient body. Compromised gut, the whole system starts fighting itself.

Companies are exactly the same.

Culture is corporate gut health. The unseen ecosystem that determines whether people feel safe, stretched, seen, valued. The difference between a team that complies and one that commits. Between employees and believers.

Those are not the same thing.

Now here’s the part that makes founders uncomfortable. I include myself fully in this.

In founder led businesses, culture often lives inside the founder/s. Their energy. Their moral code. Their particular brand of madness. When they are in the room, the room knows it. When they are not, sometimes the room forgets what it is supposed to feel like.

That is powerful.

It is also a single point of failure.

If culture lives in a person rather than in the DNA of the organisation, it is fragile. Founders burn out. Evolve. Step back. And if the culture has not been transferred, embedded and owned collectively, it walks out with them.

I have seen it. It is not pretty.

The real test of culture is not the town hall speech. It is what the room feels like five minutes after the CEO leaves. It is what gets decided when nobody senior is watching. How conflict is handled. How credit is shared. How pressure is absorbed without half the team quietly updating LinkedIn.

Real culture is not declared. It is detected.

You can smell it when you walk into an office. A slight flatness in the air. Laughter that feels cautious. Energy that feels guarded. The best leaders sense that shift before the numbers confirm it and they act.

Here is the paradox I find fascinating.

The very reasons people join and stay are the reasons they leave when those things erode.

If they came because they felt trusted and trust fades, they go.

If they stayed because they felt seen and recognition becomes selective, they disengage.

If they believed in shared values and those values get compromised for convenience, loyalty dissolves quickly.

Culture is glue.

Neglect it and it becomes solvent.

The real work is not creating culture. Any founder with sufficient conviction can ignite it. The real work is sustaining it. Protecting it from ego, entropy and drift. Making sure it is not personality masquerading as principle.

Because culture is what remains when the founder/s leaves the room.

If it does not remain, it was never culture. It was personality.

And here is the harder truth.

If your culture cannot survive you, you have not built a company.

You have built a dependency.

Culture must outlive its founders. It must belong to everyone. Be shared. Collectively owned. It must be strong enough to endure absence, succession and pressure without losing its centre.

When culture is healthy, genuinely healthy, the organisation has a strong gut. It can digest setbacks. Absorb shocks. Come out of difficult years intact.

When it is not, no strategy deck, no valuation and no amount of clever marketing will compensate.

Culture is not the soft stuff.

It is the system that keeps the body alive and vibrant. And what keeps it young.

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@Aliya562219 Only 2

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@followthebounce No curling.. for my sister!
Dang this is sad.. its 1 of the few (er on a daily basis) reasons we keep paying @DStv

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@joeroganhq

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@vmainard @theamelia__ 100% but it was a safer time then..

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@theamelia__ 100%

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@oelma__ Diabetes

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@IterIntellectus In response to the screen grab..

2 saving graces for me.

MOBLAND - brilliant series
ARC RAIDERS - great game

While we do see some of the worst TV movies games art and music lately ..
I was pleasantly surprised by both of the above.

#Mobland
#ArcRaiders by @EmbarkStudios

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@Rainmaker1973 Sugar

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@yourfairy_gf @sircalebhammer "Your work" is?

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@sircalebhammer Many trendy fatfluencers aren't alive anymore. So 100% a mistake.. and some companies like @Adidas and #Nike, while pandering or virtue signalling or something.., also pushed this "fat is healthy" narrative.
We won't forget.