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@ericmetaxas Ignorance? Or Freudian slip? 🤔

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@JackingtonBull @AntSpeaks I used to like Dave. Didn't agree with him often, but thought he was honest (like a Bill Maher type). But as time has worn on, I was proven wrong about him.

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@BarbetteScruggs @ericmetaxas I have to agree, unfortunately. I heard something like that too - I can't remember where. That there was an area of his property in Maine that was supposed to be cursed or evil... but the hunting was great, so he went anyway. If you play with fire, you get burned.

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@DerekJancart @ericmetaxas Oh burn! You got me, Derek.

Except to "grift" would definitionally mean I got paid for, or benefited in some way from my opinions. It's a labor of love for me. And upsetting dorky douche-bags who wear sleeveless shirts in their profile pictures is what I love most.

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@OakSmith2018 @jordanbpeterson I don’t know what heterodoxical means, but we agree on them being different snakes. I just misunderstood the original text.

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Eh, maybe. An easier connection is the brazen (brass?) serpent in the Exodus story.
I guess the way Jordan Peterson worded his tweet confused me, or I misread. My initial interpretation was that he was saying the serpent in the Adam & Eve story was Jesus. That confused me, but it has since been clarified.

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When I read stuff like this, I just wonder. We all seem to agree that the Bible tells us Jews were God’s chosen people. The entire “Hebrew Bible” and all of that. Jesus, the Disciples (including Paul) were “Jews who followed The Way,” etc. etc. before the term ‘Christian’ existed.

How do you then get to some variation of: “Not anymore. Because Jesus. Jews are bad.”? I never can follow the logic.

If you read your Bible you’d recognize a pattern: Specifically, “friends of Jews prospered, and enemies of the Jews fell.” Not always in the short term, but long term…

Christians and Jews are natural allies with shared values. This one is easy.

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This is a bad take. For one, most Jews don’t hate Jesus - they just don’t accept him as the messiah. That’s not hate. Just as most Christians don’t hate Jews.

For another, it’s completely revisionist. Jesus didn’t claim to be Christian - that wasn’t even a term that existed until well after his death/resurrection. Even in Paul’s time, to be “Christian” wasn’t a thing - it was called “The Way” and was a sect of Judaism.

Stop focusing on things that divide. Jews and Christians have way more in common in terms of values - thus, the term “Judeo-Christian values” is a thing.

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I can acknowledge that the OT prophesied of/about Jesus and still acknowledge that Jesus was a Jew, Moses was a Jew, etc. To claim otherwise is revisionist and absurd.

There was no “Christian” pre-Christ. There wasn’t even “Christian” in the first century. It was called “The Way” and was considered a sect of Judaism.

Why are people allergic to the term Judeo-Christian? It refers to our shared heritage.

Thank you,

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@DanCampbel44604 @DataRepublican What’s it like living in upside down world? This is the clowniest post I’ve read today.

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@DataRepublican Keep going! You are making a difference. You are here for “such a time as these.”

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@_Krackershit @DataRepublican @RealCandaceO @AndrewKolvet That’s like trying to get over a trauma in your life by watching A Clockwork Orange. You’re doing it wrong.

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@cremieuxrecueil @JackPosobiec It is possible and necessary in the micro, but foolish in the macro.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Steve Jobs walked into a room full of MBA students and asked how many were going into consulting.

Hands went up.

He said their careers would be “like a picture of a banana.”

“You might get a very accurate picture. But you never really taste it.”

He spent 60 minutes explaining what actually builds careers:

"Without owning something over an extended period of time, where one has a chance to take responsibility for one's recommendations, where one has to see one's recommendations through all action stages and accumulate scar tissue for the mistakes and pick oneself up off the ground and dust oneself off, one learns a fraction of what one can."

He continues:

"Coming in and making recommendations and not owning the results, not owning the implementation, I think is a fraction of the value and a fraction of the opportunity to learn and get better."

"You do get a broad cut at companies, but it's very thin."

Then the line that made the room go silent:

"It's like a picture of a banana. You might get a very accurate picture, but it's only two dimensional. Without the experience of actually doing it, you never get three dimensional."

"So you might have a lot of pictures on your walls. You can show it off to your friends. You can say, look, I've worked in bananas, I've worked in peaches, I've worked in grapes."

"But you never really taste it."

The room applauded.

This was 1992. Jobs had been fired from Apple seven years earlier. He was running NeXT. He had scar tissue.

An MIT student asked him: where would Apple be if you hadn't left?

Jobs paused.

"I've obviously thought about this a lot. I think everybody lost. I think I lost. I think Apple lost. I think customers lost."

"And having said all that, so what? You go on. It's not as bad as a lot of things. Not as bad as losing your arm."

That's Steve Jobs. Getting fired from the company he built, comparing it to losing a limb, and shrugging.

He spent the rest of the talk explaining what he learned about building companies.

On competitive advantage:

"Hardware churns every 18 months. It's pretty impossible to get a sustainable competitive advantage from hardware. If you're lucky, you can make something one and a half or two times as good as your competitor. And it only lasts for six months."

"But software seems to take a lot longer for people to catch up with."

"I watched Microsoft take eight or nine years to catch up with the Mac, and it's arguable whether they've even caught up."

On technology windows:

"You can use the concept of technology windows opening and then eventually closing."

"Enough technology from fairly diverse places comes together and makes something that's a quantum leap forward possible. And a window opens up."

"It usually takes around five years to create a commercial product that takes advantage of that technical window opening up."

"And then it seems to take about another five years to really exploit it in the marketplace."

He gave examples from his own life:

Apple II lasted 15 years. DOS lasted 15 years. Mac was eight years old at the time and would easily last another five.

"These things are hard. They don't last because it's convenient, or even because it's economic. They last because this is hard stuff to do."

On management:

"I've never believed in the theory that if we're on the same management team and a decision has to be made, and I decide in a way that you don't like, and I say, come on, buy into the decision."

"Because what happens is, sooner or later, you're paying somebody to do what they think is right, but then you're trying to get them to do what they think isn't right. And sooner or later, it outs."

His approach:

"The best way is to get everybody in a room and talk it through until you agree."

Then this:

"We don't pay people to do things. That's easy, to find people to do things."

"What's harder is to find people to tell you what should be done. That's what we look for."

"So we pay people a lot of money, and we expect them to tell us what to do. And when that's your attitude, you shouldn't run off and do things if people don't all feel good about them."

A student asked: what's the most important thing you learned at Apple that you're doing at NeXT?

Jobs thought for a moment.

"I now take a longer-term view on people."

"When I see something not being done right, my first reaction isn't to go fix it. It's to say, we're building a team here. And we're going to do great stuff for the next decade, not just the next year."

"So what do I need to do to help so that the person that's screwing up learns, versus how do I fix the problem?"

"And that's painful sometimes. And I still have that first instinct to go fix the problem."

"But taking a longer-term view on people is probably the biggest thing that's changed."

On not knowing your own competitive advantage:

"A lot of times you don't know what your competitive advantage is when you launch a new product."

"When we did the Macintosh, we never anticipated desktop publishing. Sounds funny, because that turned out to be the Mac's compelling advantage."

"We anticipated bitmap displays and laser printers. But we never thought about PageMaker, that whole industry really coming down to the desktop."

"But we were smart enough to see it start to happen nine to twelve months later. And we changed our entire marketing and business strategy to focus on desktop publishing."

"And it became the Trojan horse that eventually got the Mac into corporate America."

The same thing happened at NeXT.

They built software to help developers create apps faster. Their target customers were Lotus, Adobe, WordPerfect.

Then big companies started showing up and saying: "You don't understand what you've got. The same software that allows Lotus to create their apps faster is letting us build our in-house apps five to ten times faster."

"And you dummies don't even know it."

Jobs admitted: "It took them about three months before we finally heard it."

On hiring:

"It seems like all the good people I really want to hire, it takes me a year to hire them. It's always been that way, even at Apple."

"I usually meet somebody that is really good. And you can't get them. And then you go try to find other people. And nobody measures up."

"When you meet somebody that good, you always compare them to this one person. And you know you're going to be settling for second best if you compromise."

"And I've always found it best not to compromise, and just keep chipping away."

His VP of Marketing took a year and a half to hire.

"And they're all worth it."

This talk is Steve Jobs at his most unfiltered. A founder with scar tissue explaining what he learned the hard way.

This 60 minute MIT lecture will teach you more about building companies than every startup book you've read combined.

Bookmark & give it an hour, no matter what.

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@Patriotdadev77 Banger.

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@Richzeoli @wil_da_beast630 I had to show my ID to buy BBs for a BB gun today at Wal-mart. True Story.

I hate to think of the black Americans and pregnant women who can’t even shoot at cans in their own American back yards. It’s disgraceful.

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@maziehirono When I read statements like this I always wonder: is ‘truth’ just not something you value?