Sit there and count your fingers... What can you do? Old girl you're through... Just sit there and count your little fingers... Unlucky little girl blue.
Korra’s life is one of the most brutal Avatar stories because she spent almost her entire life learning that being powerful doesn’t mean being prepared for what the world can take from you.
She discovered she was the Avatar at just four years old. By seventeen, she had already mastered water, earth and fire, and she genuinely believed the hardest part of her life would simply be learning airbending.
Then she arrived in Republic City and reality hit her.
She faced Amon and watched her bending get taken away.
She lost control of her emotions.
She struggled with spirituality and questioned what kind of Avatar she was supposed to become.
And just when she thought she had finally found her footing, Unalaq tore Raava from her and severed her connection to every Avatar before her.
Imagine carrying thousands of years of Avatar wisdom your entire life… and suddenly hearing nothing.
Then came Zaheer.
Korra fought him knowing exactly what was at stake. She was poisoned, chained and forced into the Avatar State while the Red Lotus tried to end the Avatar cycle through her.
She survived.
But surviving didn’t mean she was okay.
For three years, Korra struggled with the physical and psychological consequences of that battle. She isolated herself, lost confidence in her own strength and was haunted by what Zaheer had done to her.
And then came the most important part of her story:
She had to learn how to live without being the strongest person in the room.
Korra had spent her childhood mastering bending.
Her adulthood became about mastering herself.
She learned humility.
She learned patience.
She learned spirituality.
She learned that asking for help wasn’t weakness.
She learned that sometimes saving the world means understanding it rather than simply overpowering its enemies.
And when Kuvira came, Korra wasn’t the same seventeen-year-old girl who arrived in Republic City looking for a fight.
She was still powerful.
But now she understood pain.
She understood fear.
She understood what it meant to lose.
And ultimately, she defeated Kuvira not by destroying her, but by understanding her.
That’s the beautiful thing about Korra’s journey.
She started as a girl who thought being the Avatar meant being strong enough to handle everything.
She ended as a woman who understood that strength isn’t the absence of vulnerability, it’s finding yourself again after the world breaks you. ❤️
Korra didn’t have an easy Avatar life.
She had an incredibly human one.
Everyone on Linkedin should be watching House of Dragons.
They keep dropping Career Gems.
In the last episode Rhaenyra blessed us with the best auto email reply, that I will be using going forward
"I am awash in dilemmas and deficiencies. Let me find my footing and I will attend to your request."
Whoever wrote that line…I know your pen was on fire.
A conversation with Ed Catmull, founder of Pixar. I've been making podcasts about Ed for over 8 years. He invited me to his home and told incredible stories from his 60 year career. Ed worked with Steve Jobs longer than anyone else — for more than a quarter century. We talked about what he learned from Steve, the founding of Pixar, building a company at the intersection of art and technology, why getting the team right is the necessary precursor to getting the idea right, and so much more.
Ed is full of hard-earned practical wisdom. Spending time with someone I’ve studied for almost a decade was awesome.
I hope you listen.
0:00 Most Companies Are Full Of Shit
4:28 The Brain Trust Mechanism
10:13 Why Steve Jobs Was Banned From The Braintrust
17:48 Your Job Is To Manage The Dynamics
23:27 Betting The Company On Toy Story
24:35 Engineering Eisner's Worst Nightmare
36:51 Bob Iger's Crappy Hand
38:44 Why Disney Never Asked What Pixar Was Doing
43:48 Take The Hard Problem
44:38 The Director Can't Lose The Team
48:48 Quality Is The Best Business Plan
52:32 What Walt Disney Taught Him
59:25 George Lucas And The Motion Blur Problem
1:08:48 Now What's The Point Of My Life
1:13:31 How Much Of This Was Me
1:16:10 George Lucas Wanted The Whole Industry Healthy
1:25:11 Refusing To Let Anyone Feel Second Class
1:32:38 The Truck In The Building
Includes paid partnerships.
He flipped the switch. Now come see it yourself. 🇧🇷
@10Ronaldinho lit the Empire State Building green, yellow, and blue — then explored the limited-time Classic Football Shirts exhibition and the 86th and 102nd Floor Observation Decks.
See the jerseys: https://t.co/19c4wA6r24
See the lights: https://t.co/V0hvDWRuht
Don't harm opossums! They’re harmless and actually really useful. They keep pests in check (eating ticks, roaches, rats, and scorpions), clean up dead animals, and help spread seeds. Basically, they’re nature’s cleanup crew
agente matou um monolito que respondia em 10ms pra subir uns 20 microsserviço.
agora a request leva 800ms só passeando pela rede. a aws cobra o triplo e o log é um labirinto.
mas o diagrama da arquitetura ficou lindo no slide do tech lead. valeu a pena.
Creator of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup:
AI-generated code isn't ready — it generates more bugs, more bloat, more security holes, and is nearly impossible to validate
"senior developers are already retiring rather than deal with it"
The problem is that even a small prompt change can shift the entire codebase in unpredictable ways
If you're like I was a few years ago, you think only of Rio or maybe São Paulo when you picture Brazil. If you visit, you might take a photo at Christ the Redeemer and go home thinking you saw the country
But the real Brazil is a gaúcho arguing about the right way to salt a picanha, a nordestina grandmother making acarajé at 5am, a mineiro saying absolutely nothing and meaning everything
Biggest country in Latin America by almost every measure
Most underexplored by people who think they've already seen it