SEO Evangelist. Army Veteran. Candidate for Olympia City Council Seat #6. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. I like intelligent debate and hearing different ideas.
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@kaitlancollins and @CNN I know you don’t need to hear this but I am going to say it anyway:
You are a STELLAR reporter. I still remember the incredibly and sensitive, empathetic interview you did with a dad who lost his daughter and wife in the DC plane crash that collided with a helicopter. Your humanity was palpable, but so was your professionalism.
Who gives a shit whether or not you smile? @realDonaldTrump’s misogyny is well documented. But anyone who watches you, and i know the people you care about know you DO smile, like a regular person - not a person competing in a beauty pageant (not disparaging them - just explaining his lens). He’s just a shithead and you know that.
Thanks for the work you do. You are the kind of young woman us older gals in the USA have been hoping would come along.
Congratulations on your award!!! Keep doing your amazing work. I’ll be there watching!
#kaitlynn #whitehousecorrespondentsdinner #cnn
"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.
He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.
Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in one hour for free.
His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.
Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."
His entire framework fits on a napkin.
Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."
That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.
"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."
That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.
Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.
The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.
Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.
The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.
Dana Tan retweeted
Anthropic accidentally leaked their entire source code yesterday. What happened next is one of the most insane stories in tech history.
> Anthropic pushed a software update for Claude Code at 4AM.
> A debugging file was accidentally bundled inside it.
> That file contained 512,000 lines of their proprietary source code.
> A researcher named Chaofan Shou spotted it within minutes and posted the download link on X.
> 21 million people have seen the thread.
> The entire codebase was downloaded, copied and mirrored across GitHub before Anthropic's team had even woken up.
> Anthropic pulled the package and started firing DMCA takedowns at every repo hosting it.
> That's when a Korean developer named Sigrid Jin woke up at 4AM to his phone blowing up.
> He is the most active Claude Code user in the world with the Wall Street Journal reporting he personally used 25 billion tokens last year.
> His girlfriend was worried he'd get sued just for having the code on his machine.
> So he did what any engineer would do.
> He rewrote the entire thing in Python from scratch before sunrise.
> Called it claw-code and Pushed it to GitHub.
> A Python rewrite is a new creative work. DMCA can't touch it.
> The repo hit 30,000 stars faster than any repository in GitHub history.
> He wasn't satisfied. He started rewriting it again in Rust.
> It now has 49,000 stars and 56,000 forks.
> Someone mirrored the original to a decentralised platform with one message, "will never be taken down."
> The code is now permanent. Anthropic cannot get it back.
Anthropic built a system called Undercover Mode specifically to stop Claude from leaking internal secrets. Then they leaked their own source code themselves. You cannot make this up.
Remember this? time.com/3259699/putin-boast……. Ringing any bells??? #IranWar #MiddleEast #TrumpsWar what are we doing?
We absolutely cannot win a war the American people do not support. This has been proven. It’s a fact.
I don’t post here hardly ever. But I just watched the @TweetANTM and am so disappointed and disgusted in #TyraBanks.
Her lack of accountability explains how reality TV, with shows like ANTM and #celebrityapprentice have ruined this country.
Am I the only person who gets anxiety and PTSD (because it sounds like the dentist’s office) from the sound of the drones covering events like Luge and Alpine skiing events in the @Olympics @NBCOlympics #downhill #luge ????? etc.
Straight up, realistic advice for the SEO community
Throwback Thursday @Moz back in the good ole days 2012-2013 #roger @CyrusShepard @dr_pete @AnnieCushing @iPullRank @audette @thompsonpaul @mrgoracke @ysilver @ShahMenz You made my career what it is 💛
Hey #seo #aso #geo #aio etc communities….where do you sit in your org? Take the poll I just posted on LinkedIn linkedin.com/posts/danatan_a…
Join me and over one million others in supporting a different model for open, independent journalism. Together we can help safeguard the Guardian’s future – so more people, across the world, can keep accessing factual information for free support.theguardian.com/cont…
Ok, so after calling @geico 3 times, and waiting on hold for almost 5 hours and never getting to speak with a human….i finally gave up and called @USAA - after selecting the prompts I was immediately connected to a human, named Pamela.
I bought new car insurance and also canceled my @geico home owner’s insurance and am now insured via USAA…roughly the same price but better coverage.
I was a @geico customer for over 30 years….their loss.
So. The @TheDemocrats strategy of just waiting until @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk burn their own house down….now suddenly appears to be incredibly smart.
@JamesCarville ….i think you have been proven once again to have a sharp strategic mind. The NOLA
Hot sauce is still working it!
Are there statistics that show what percentage of people taking Semaglutide (Ozempic/Mounjaro etc) are also anti-vaxxers?
Because i bet that’s an interesting number!
#Hypocrisy
Latest from #SEOWeek (I wonder why it wasn’t called Relevance Engineering Week???)
Interesting talk by Krishna Madhavan
“All LLMs currently have a ‘knowledge cutoff date.’ This means that fresh data and content is what powers AI.”
Example: if you wanted to know the upcoming baseball season calendar for a given city…you need to provide a LLM fresh data for it to give an accurate response.
“SEO shouldn’t exist. It exists because all these other digital folks (CRO, UX, XD, engineers)…never thought about requirements for Google….what we really are? We are (or should be) ‘relevance engineers.’” #seoweek (from @iPullRank’s opening pres
Pope Francis “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel.” 2/18/2016
This is not the rant of a Christian person. But, did we expect otherwise? We already know him for what he is. He’s old. It’s sad to see someone heading into his final years consumed by so much hatred and spite towards so many people.
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured." —Mark Twain