Writing without balance. Cooking with burns. Check out my book Blunt, how I talk and how I cook
Bluffton, IN
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I was asked about my book at work and thought I should share link here maybe sales will encourage me to write cookbook 2 but working on novel right now. Don't expect recipes expect foundation cooking
Spot on with the corners may disagree a little on where other stand but those corners π₯π₯π₯π₯
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From Marcus Aurelius: Ryan, the raised finger reveals more about the soul that lifts it than the sign it targets. Political contests and the judgments of others lie outside your command. Guard the citadel of your mind. Choose justice and temperance over the brief heat of contempt. Externals cannot harm you unless you assent.
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Familiarize yourself with what government did to gas cans and then say with a straight face you want them in charge of more thingsβ¦
Odd day
Reading The Prince
While having my Claude.ai connect to google while Iβm over my home data internet cap
Must run @Omarchy though I would be fine with @fedora_linux
When it runs @omarchy I will consider ordering.
I'm guessing by the time they are on sale next spring it will.
Learn more: anduril.com/news/anduril-andβ¦
This is a cut from Codie Sanchez's podcast w/MrBallin and he is describing almost exactly what I felt when my stomach exploded on my cardiac sack
Well I just did 3 things I have never done before.
I found a piece from Codie Sanchez Big Deal youtu.be/VxeHnVt9Y68?si=xlRlβ¦
Edited a bit that is very dear to my heart
Posted a video, never done that
Scheduled the post, because it wasn't allowing me to post. Not going for numbers.
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Text-message 2 FA is better than nothing, but SIM swap scammers can talk a carrier into moving your number to their phone. For accounts that matter, use an authenticator app or a hardware key, and ask your carrier for a port-out PIN.
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Underrated life advice: Keep a list of the people who believed in you early. The teacher who pushed you. The boss who took a chance. The friend who told you to go for it. Every now and then, reach out. Update them. And tell them just how much you appreciate what they did for you.
Do people really believe that?
I was in 4th grade when I realized it. I think it took longer for my peers.
This reads like AI or a professor speech, so I think I will give you the boil. Give a guy a fish and he eats. Give a guy a fishing pole he may go fishing. Give a guy capital to choose his path, maybe he sucks at fishing but can raise a cow. Self ownership and agency is better than a flashy crutch
In 2021, the head of the UN World Food Programme said $6 billion from Elon Musk could solve world hunger.
Elon replied: publish the plan, right here, publicly, and I'll sell Tesla stock on the spot.
The plan came out. And when you read it, it wasn't a plan to solve hunger. It was one year of food for 42 million people. A twelve-month subscription. And the year after? Start over.
A few months later, Elon summed up his view: if you care about the reality of goodness rather than the perception of it, philanthropy is extremely difficult.
"Reality of goodness over perception of goodness."
That line stuck with me for weeks. Does philanthropy actually work?
Gates-style philanthropy is first and foremost institutional capture. Foundations funding NGOs, funding governments, funding programs, producing reports, producing photos. Everyone's happy, and the aid machine keeps itself alive. Sixty years and hundreds of billions later, much of Africa is still dependent on aid. Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo laid it out in Dead Aid: aid breeds dependency, feeds corruption, and short-circuits the only mechanism that has ever lifted a country out of poverty.
So what actually works?
It's been tested. In Kenya, Berkeley researchers working with GiveDirectly randomly selected villages and gave every poor household about $1,000 in cash. No program. No training. No conditions. Just cash.
The result: people bought metal roofs, livestock, started small businesses. Barely any inflation. And every dollar injected generated around $2.50 of economic activity locally, including for neighbors who received nothing.
Why? Because you didn't give them charity. You gave them capital. You primed the pump.
And that's where everything hinges: ownership. Hernando de Soto showed that the world's poor hold trillions of dollars in assets, but without recognized property titles, it's dead capital. You can't borrow against it, pass it on, or grow it. Where property rights are respected, the system starts running. Where they aren't, no amount of aid will ever be enough.
Now reread Elon's post.
"Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many."
That's not a meal. That's not a handout. That's a property title. A piece of the company building the infrastructure of a multiplanetary civilization, owned directly by millions of kids.
A kid who gets a handout depends on the state. A kid who owns a share of SpaceX owns a piece of the future. He learns what an asset is, he has a stake in the economy working, and one day he'll vote as an owner, not as a client of the state.
Gates buys perception. Musk distributes ownership.
The reality of goodness versus its perception. And it's absolutely brilliant.
This sounds like everything we havenβt had for any conflict since WWII
Parts of it yes
Ok wait Grenada maybe that counts
None for Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghan, Iran
