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A lot has been written about side hustles and how to make a living "working for yourself". But there IS a path to $1MM/year as a traditional employee. Here the framework that no one seems to acknowledge:
marketingbs.com/post/million…
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But I’m sure UBI would work out well here
What's crazy about socities like Saudi or the Gulf is the native people don't work. It's 50 million people living off oil money.
But it's not like they are creating great art. There's no interesting films. Songs. Literature. Games.
It's just guys hanging out all day
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We’ve gone from knowledge about the world doesn’t matter because you can “look it up” to knowing your own address and phone number is unimportant
I would never, ever, ever admit this if this were true about me. not ever. not in a million years. nytimes.com/2026/09/23/opini…
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Forget the stepsisters, Cruella and Malifecent, this needs to be the next “villain was actually the hero story”
The activities of the villainous boy in Toy Story are awesome: blowing up his toys with fireworks, reassembling them, combining them with random hardware
Andy is stuck in his mind, playing pretend in his room
Sid is mastering the toolbox and the flame, rearranging the universe
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Growing up my wife’s takes copy of sound of music started when Julie Andrews is walking to the home (“I believe in me”). It wasn’t until college she learned there was almost 30 minutes of film before that
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When teaching a 5-year old history he will often mix things that seem obvious to an adult. Today he asked his mom:
“Can you tell me about what you were doing during the XYZ affair?”
“What?”
“You know, when the planes hit the twin towers”
Xyz - 9/11: All numbers and letters….
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This is just not true.
At most private schools Parmets need to be VERY careful what they say. They are hard to get in to and if you are a troublesome parent you are asked to leave.
And you are counting on the guidance counselor for recommendations for high school/college 1/x
I've been working in education for 20 years and I've never heard parents describe being *afraid* of the institution they formerly had students enrolled in. Just the opposite, usually they are eagerly to complain, loudly. Here, the wealth and tactics of Alpha School scare them.
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The @Alphaschool is far from perfect. But the idea that people are “afraid” to say anything is ridiculous. If they are it’s not on the school who even have “deans of parents” for every location who’s job it is to listen to parent concerns
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More opportunities doesn’t trump that female coded occupations tend to be lower status. My guess is that male lawyers and doctors do fine even as the % female there increased.
"Men’s odds of marriage are decreased by working in predominately female occupations when compared with working in predominately male occupations or integrated occupations...Women’s odds of marriage are unrelated to occupational sex composition"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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My wife just had to explain to my (American born and living for her entire life) 10-year old daighter that this store is the “American version of Tim Hortons”
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It feels like education is coming around to the idea that phonics >> “whole word learning.
It feels like getting to knowledge >> “meaning” has a long way to go
I found this excerpt on a Superintendent's thoughts on education. He has been Super for 15 yrs in a school district in my area which relies on "problem-based learning" in math. The excerpt was written in 2010. I doubt he's changed much.
@rastokke @JonMHenderson1 @mikesully97
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The key word is not “science fiction” it’s “authors”
I asked one author friend if she used AI to help EDIT her work and she looked at me with disgust.
Was just skimming through the webpages of some of my favorite hard science fiction authors and wow the majority of them hate LLMs: a surprising number of them because they think it is a useless stochastic parrot, some because of IP, and a minority because of existential risk.
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What I don’t understand:
@Noahpinion seems very worried about this. Thinks it could end civilization. “People are not worried enough. We should do something”
Then puts the argument behind a paywall?
Why AI-designed superviruses outweigh every other risk in the world right now:
noahpinion.blog/p/heres-how-…
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If any school were to do this I think I know the one…
@jliemandt
These little cowboys and cowgirls aren’t just riding sheep — they’re learning one of the oldest lessons the West still teaches.
Mutton busting looks pure chaos from the outside: tiny helmets, protective vests, a woolly animal that has zero interest in cooperation, and a crowd holding its breath. But watch closely and you see something deeper. These kids are practicing courage in real time. They climb on knowing they will probably hit the dirt in under eight seconds. They still do it. They get up, brush off the arena dust, and grin like they just won the world.
That kind of grit doesn’t start in a classroom. It starts in places like this — under bright lights, with adults who know how to keep it safe, and with parents who understand that a little controlled risk builds something no participation trophy ever will. The sheep don’t care about feelings. The arena doesn’t hand out participation ribbons for trying. You hang on or you don’t. And when you don’t, you learn that falling is temporary and standing back up is the real win.
In a world that keeps wrapping kids in bubble wrap, these short, wild rides feel like a quiet rebellion. They’re pure joy mixed with real courage, and they remind the rest of us what childhood used to look like before everything got so careful.
The Little Sheep Team might not stay on long… but they already won.
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