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While we’re talking about much-needed environmental review reform: California High-Speed Rail had to study how running service on existing tracks between SF and San Jose would affect anchovies, sardines, mackerel, and market squid. The rail line has existed since the 1860s.
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In a beautiful twist of storefront fate, a business that does eyelashes is taking over Micah Lasher's former campaign HQ on the Upper West Side.
Lasher's Lashes has an undoubted ring to it.
ALT Photo by Julia Ornedo.
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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks bear experts will be again rolling out their robo-grizzly and offering free bear spray lessons at an event next week to promote safety and awareness. missoulian.com/news/local/ar…
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$2 Canadian Tire shopping bag a hot fashion accessory thanks to Heated Rivalry star #WestKelowna castanet.net/news/West-Kelow…
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Common Loon Ice Tray
$21.95 Original price was: $21.95.$18.66Current price is: $18.66.
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Dive into a world of lakeside luxury with the all-new Loon Ice Trays, the ultimate centerpiece for your next northern-inspired gathering.
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The greatest skill you can master is staying in a good mood when there are hundreds of reasons not to. #PaulyDPositivity
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Unpopular opinion: Financial illiteracy should be disqualifying for leadership roles.
Not "something to work on."
Disqualifying.
I've been asking operators, founders, and GTM leaders these 10 questions:
1. If your company grows revenue 30% next year, what happens to EBITDA?
2. What's the difference between cash flow, profit, and revenue?
3. If you cut your CAC in half, how much more can you afford to spend on growth?
4. What percentage of revenue should Sales & Marketing represent at your stage?
5. If your company loses money, can it still generate positive cash flow?
6. What is the single biggest driver of LTV in a recurring revenue business?
7. If revenue grows 20% but headcount grows 40%, what questions would you ask?
8. How would you determine whether a marketing channel is actually working?
9. If you were given a P&L today, could you identify the three largest opportunities to improve profitability?
10. If your CEO asked how your work impacts the company's financial performance, could you explain it in one sentence?
Most people genuinely struggle after question two.
We promote people into VP and C-suite roles who cannot explain how their decisions show up in the numbers. We then hand them headcount, budgets, and strategic authority.
Then we act surprised when the business runs out of cash.
This is a hiring problem.
This is a promotion problem.
This is a standards problem.
If you run a team and you can't read a P&L, you're not ready.
If you own a budget and you don't understand unit economics, you're guessing.
If you're in the room making decisions and you can't connect your work to financial outcomes, you're overhead.
Harsh? Maybe.
But the companies that survive the next five years will be the ones that stopped promoting financial illiteracy into leadership.
What's the answer?
I'm teaching Intro to P&L Fluency beginning next week. If you are in any kind of leadership position and you can't confidently answer the questions above without resorting to ChatGPT or Google, you should be in the class.
It's 3 weeks and you'll emerge with a far better understanding of how all of this works. 270 minutes of class time plus 180 minutes of cohort time.
In exchange, you'll be far better positioned to lead your org, talk to the board, make friends with Cassie Young, and ensure you don't get fired.
Learn more here: joinpavilion.com/pavilion-un…
What a supply chain story @TheStalwart
BEYOND LOCAL: 'Out of luck': Strychnine arrives late for Alberta and Saskatchewan farmers dlvr.it/TT3FSN
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"That is ridiculous!" 🤩
Kysaiah Pickett is the @VirginAustralia Mark of the Year nominee for round seven.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't invoke Weimar Germany as a rhetorical flourish. She cited a specific scholar by name in a footnote: Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who observed the Nazi legal system from the inside, smuggled his manuscript out of Berlin in 1938, and published "The Dual State" at the University of Chicago in 1941.
Fraenkel's framework is precise. The Nazis didn't immediately collapse Germany's legal system. They left courts functioning - particularly in contracts and economic matters - while placing Jews and political enemies in a separate lawless zone where no legal protection applied. Most Germans lived in the law-bound "normative state." The targeted lived in the "prerogative state." The facade of normalcy was the mechanism of control.
Jackson invoked Fraenkel to name what the court's Republican majority is doing in real time. In 21 consecutive shadow docket cases, the six conservative justices have let Trump opt out of the law - often with no explanation given at all. They blessed ICE racial profiling without citing a single legal justification. They allowed Trump to ignore $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. They stripped lower courts of the ability to issue universal relief, meaning only those with resources to file individual lawsuits get protection from illegal presidential action.
Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it plainly: "The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power."
Jackson's dissent is not hyperbole. A footnote citing a 1941 manuscript about Nazi legal architecture is a Supreme Court justice blowing the cover on what her colleagues are building.
The ‘dual state’ framework explains how a dictator can exercise power while life appears mostly ordinary. motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Here's something that changed how I think about my job:
Every dollar you spend on acquisition is trapped. Trapped until a customer pays you back. The speed at which that happens — your payback period — is one of the most important numbers in your business. Fast payback means you can reinvest faster and grow faster. Slow payback means you’re waiting.
And a high LTV:CAC ratio? Not automatically a good thing. I know a company at 17:1. That sounds like bragging rights. It’s not. It means they’re not investing enough in growth. We want healthy, not just high.
The bigger shift: revenue has a cost. If you’re leading a GTM team, you’re not just hitting a number — you’re allocating capital. The best operators understand that.
These are the kinds of conversations we have in Intro to P&L Fluency.
The next cohort starts April 7 — three Tuesdays (April 7, 14, 21), 90 minutes each. Built for GTM leaders who want to actually understand the business they’re running.
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Wow!
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: federalreserve.gov/newsevent…
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Bravo, Congressman. Don't back off....go after Trump relentlessly. This isn't a rational act of national policy; it's a macho man stunt designed to make a 79-year old slob feel like he can still get it up! A just plain disgusting abuse of the Presidential office.
Thomas Massie is going NUCLEAR on Trump’s regime change war in Venezuela.
“How did it work out in Cuba, Libya, Iraq, or Syria?”
“Do we want another Afghanistan in the Western Hemisphere?”
“This is about oil and regime change.”
“Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs, weapons of mass destruction, that did not exist.”
“Now it’s the same playbook, except we’re told that drugs are the WMDs.”
“James Madison warned us that in no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislature—not the executive.”
“The framers understood a simple truth: to the extent that war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves.”
“By escalating toward war, we would predictably create countless refugees.”
“Are we prepared to receive swarms of the 25 million Venezuelans who will likely become refugees?”
@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY
Serious crossover here @tracyalloway @TheStalwart
“Tank farms are homey. They’re places to rest or hide out. A couple of guys might go out there in pairs and bullshit about the good old days, because the tank farm always looks the same.”
@TopangaHippie on writing her poem in our Winter issue. buff.ly/i6R2fwQ
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Unbelievable that the Durst Organization is trying to void the lease of Jimmy’s Corner — a true Times Square gem that hasn’t missed a rent payment.
A holiday-season eviction of this beloved dive bar? Bah humbug.
My gut says @ZohranKMamdani can be the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future to knock some sense into Scrooge-Durst.
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