Exploring. Working with great people is a gift. Midwest dad type (jokes included).
Madison, WI
Joined February 2009
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Caller: "I was in a relationship with a man for seven years."
"He needed to borrow money. I know how you feel about that... but I did it anyway because I thought we were going the long haul."
"$200,000 later... he lost all the money."
"He was doing some crypto something. Lost all the money."
"He has since ended the relationship."
"So now I'm out $200,000, which was basically the majority of what I had."
"He's making monthly payments, but he's basically just paying me the interest at this point."
"I'm 55 years old and I have approximately $95,000 left to my name."
"How can I make that money work for me so I'm not working forever?"
Dave Ramsey: "Wow... that's a sad story of how we got here."
Caller: "I really thought I was going to be going the long haul with him."
"I still love him."
Dave Ramsey: "The good news is he's in the rear-view mirror."
"The bad news is we're $200,000 poorer."
"Let's pretend none of that happened."
"If you called me today and said, 'I'm 55 and I have $95,000,' I'd tell you you're going to be okay."
"But the $95,000 isn't what's going to save you. Your work is what's going to save you."
Craig Micon retweeted
I've put off writing a thread on "why I quit teaching" for a long time.
Mostly because it's personal, and depressing.
but it's important to see what's so bad about the status quo if you ever hope to change it, so I want to try and name the biggest factors:
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It is actually crazy how much power narrative art has in development. Cases like this, where a Pixar movie literally saves a child’s soul (and ultimately his body), make evident what also happens in subtler ways in more ordinary circumstances.
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Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, and others were inducted into the Hall of Fame this past weekend.
The part you didn't know?
A former car salesman that has never played in, coached, or broadcasted a single NBA game was also inducted.
This is his incredible story 👇👇👇
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This will go down in history as one of science and medical research's greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive.
I put together a preliminary timeline of some key milestones to show how several years of work were compressed into months.
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While most concerns about the US becoming like Putin's Russia focused on an authoritarian president, I'm starting to worry about an enfeebled Congress with extremist wings like Russia's: Nationalists and Communists!
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I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education, and UBI. It will operate transparently, all flows tracked here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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Solar Eclipses are one of Nature’s great spectacles: The Sun is 400x wider than the Moon and 400x farther away, making them the same size on the sky -- endowing Earth with the most badass eclipses in the Solar System.
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Doing a project for @LambdaSchool and looking for feedback. If you’re involved in the tech industry and/or hire software devs, what’s most important for a jr. dev breaking in with no exp?
I never do this, but I’d appreciate if you RT’d for more feedback.
If other, please reply.
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I have a trick I use to make a list of alternatives/competitors for any product/service. I made a tool to do it for you versusutil.com/
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Today, the greatest threat of extinction we face is not asteroids or climate change or disease or famine. It’s society’s refusal to heed the warnings of scientists.
