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> Atlanta has nearly the same number of Fortune 1000 companies as Boston
> Atlanta has higher GDP (total & per capita) than Miami
> Atlanta is top 50 city for research output, world wide
> Atlanta has obvious, international cultural influence
Can’t get ahead here? SKILL ISSUE!
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A Stanford professor told a room full of students that everyone on Earth should be forced to learn his subject "at gunpoint," and then the whole course went on YouTube for free.
His name is Robert Sapolsky.
The course is Human Behavioral Biology. 25 lectures, recorded at Stanford in the spring of 2010.
The first lecture opens with a story.
A quiet 40-year-old man with a 15-year marriage and two kids suddenly punches a coworker. Months later he has an affair. Then he steals money from work and disappears.
Sapolsky asks the room for explanations. He's a creep. He's having a midlife crisis. Or he has a mutation in one gene.
Then he spends the rest of the course showing why you can't explain people with just one of those.
He calls them "buckets." Genes. Hormones. Neurons. Childhood. Evolution.
His warning is that some of the most influential scientists of the last century did real damage because they lived inside one bucket.
The course has no prerequisites. He said why on day one:
"I really think this is a subject that everybody on Earth should be forced to learn about at gunpoint."
His reason is simple. We act like behavioral biologists every time we serve on a jury, vote on a policy, or try to understand a family member sunk in depression.
The first half covers evolution, genetics, the brain, and hormones.
The second half uses them on aggression, sex, language, depression, and schizophrenia.
No tuition. No application. Just the most useful course I've found for understanding people.
Which one would you watch first: aggression, depression, or why we think in buckets?
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A little something that's not mentioned, and ppl may not even think about:
Binance did not borrow money
Binance did not sell assets
Binance did not raise money
Binance covered from its balance sheet.
This differs from other incidents that people keep wanting to compare to. 🙏
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Georgia is raising some of the best talent in the country and then watching it leave.
Kids grow up here, go to Georgia Tech, UGA, and Emory, and then head to Austin, New York, Miami, and Nashville, because that's where the energy and the opportunity are.
Most of them want to come home one day. But when every headline is SpaceX in Texas and Louisiana, Wall Street moving to West Palm, and tech booming in Texas, it's hard to make the case for Georgia.
It's brain drain, and it's happening to companies too. Hermeus and Durin were started by Georgia Tech people and are now headquartered in California.
Every one of those kids is a future founder, a future family, and future capital that could be building here.
Give them a reason to come home.
#gapol
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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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🚨 RFK Jr. dropped the hammer
“They had to DESTROY ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine… because if they admitted those drugs actually worked, the entire $200 BILLION vaccine enterprise would have COLLAPSED!”
Big Pharma chose profits over lives.
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🚨BREAKING: We did it!
We have formally filed a Citizen Petition with the FDA, demanding that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and ivermectin be made available over the counter.
This isn’t just about medication—it’s about your fundamental right to medical freedom.
We will not let the medical-industrial complex dictate what you can and cannot access.
Please share and repost this message to help raise awareness. It is essential that the public be informed.
Follow my page for more motivational and educational content.
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It’s also a clear message to others who aren’t satisfied with the current Democratic leadership
If you speak up against us, we’ll do to you what we did to Elon.
If they’re willing to destroy America’s #1 EV company to stay in power, do you expect them to even bat an eye before squishing you?
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Georgia has missed out on a lot over the last couple of years.
Louisiana landed a $100 billion SpaceX spaceport and has over $300 billion in projects in the pipeline after it started fast-tracking every major investment.
Florida pulled roughly 100 New York financial firms into West Palm Beach and over $1 trillion in managed assets into the state.
Utah launched Operation Gigawatt and went all in on energy.
Tennessee landed a federal nuclear innovation campus and is building a privately funded tunnel to the Nashville airport.
Mississippi landed $528 million from Hitachi Energy.
Georgia missed the nuclear campus, missed the federal air taxi program, and watched Hermeus, Mantis Space, and Durin leave.
Obviously a lot of this comes down to leadership at the top not prioritizing these kinds of projects.
But beyond that, how else can we start investing in our entire state? What projects do you think would have the highest impact on Georgia? Curious to hear thoughts
#gapol #gagov
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I swear a lot of the convo around "test anxiety" also starts this way.
Student gets straight As but fails standardized tests? He's just bad at taking tests!
Tests scare the student while homework/quizzes/projects are a breeze? Well she must have anxiety!
The reality is that they aren't actually learning the content, their grades are heavily inflated, and the test exposes that. The student is at least subconciously aware that they don't know the actual material, so test day is hugely stressful. Not because they "have anxiety," but because they simply don't know the material and are walking into the test knowing they will fail.
Parents- don’t EVER allow a school to tell you standardized tests don’t mean anything. They mean A LOT and you are best to start figuring things out if your child is coming home with straight A’s, but below 70th percentile on MAP, I-Ready, state tests, etc. I’m not saying it’s devastating, but I am saying to ignore the teacher who says, “He gets the concepts in class and maybe he’s just didn’t test well that day.” NEVER, EVER let the conversation end there. Start finding out what’s going on.
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Vermilion Parish has 5,139 oil and gas wells. Only 109 are still producing.
Everyone talks about what Starbase Louisiana might bring to our parish, but fewer people talk about what we've already lost.
When I was growing up, oil and gas in the south end of Vermilion Parish helped pay for a lot of things here at home. It also put food on the table for most of the families I knew, including mine. My mom and dad both worked jobs tied to the oilfield, and my own work is still tied to it today. I wanted to see what those numbers look like now, so I decided to do some research.
I began with the parish as a whole. The state collects a severance tax on oil and gas pulled out of the ground. In fiscal year 2018-19, the state collected $19.1 million in severance tax on oil and gas produced in Vermilion Parish. In fiscal year 2025-26, it was about $10.3 million. That is down about 46 percent in seven years, according to Louisiana Department of Revenue reports.
I also looked at our schools. Much of the Vermilion Parish School Board's oil and gas money came from leases and royalties on its Section 16 land, which is land set aside to support our schools. A lot of it sits in the south end of the parish. In 2014, the School Board collected over $6 million in oil and gas revenue. In the 2024-25 school year, it collected about $150,000. That is a drop of roughly 97 percent. As far back as 2021, the local paper reported there was no drilling on that land and the district was losing millions. The money swings so much that board policy keeps it out of the general fund.
Then there is the Police Jury, which runs parish government. Its severance tax money actually went up, from about $1 million in 2017 to about $1.24 million in 2023. The reason is in the state constitution. A parish gets one-fifth of the severance tax collected on its production, but only up to a cap. That cap was $850,000 in 2007 and rises with inflation each year. It was about $1.33 million in 2024-25. One-fifth of what Vermilion produces is well above that cap, so the Police Jury's share is held down by the cap, not by how much we produce. It's a small, steady slice of the money that comes out of our ground. Most of the rest goes to the state.
Even the Sheriff's Office feels the shift. It doesn't get oil and gas royalties, but wells here are taxed as property, and they have lost a lot of value. In 2015, the parish's 604 taxable wells were assessed at about $42.3 million. By 2023, 555 wells were assessed at about $22.7 million. Oil and gas wells went from about 9 percent of the parish's assessed value in 2015 to about 5 percent in 2023. Homes and other property now carry a bigger share of the load for local services.
You can see it on the map. Most of those wells are now plugged, dry, or idle.
That is the bigger picture behind a lot of the conversations happening in our parish right now. The income our parish leaned on for decades has gotten smaller and less predictable. New industry, including Starbase Louisiana, could help fill some of that gap over time. But the slide in oil and gas money is a story of its own, and it is worth knowing.
Thank you to @LAGovJeffLandry and Louisiana Economic Development for working to bring new opportunity to the south end of our parish. Places like ours have given a lot to this state, and it means something to see someone invest back in it.
Sources: Louisiana Dept. of Revenue, Louisiana Tax Commission, Legislative Auditor audits, La. DENR Office of Conservation (SONRIS), The Advocate, Vermilion Today.
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Incredible, Tesla’s FSD avoids head on collision from oncoming car crossing over double yellow line on blind corner.
Incident occurred with two children aboard in Northern California.
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A clip of Elon Musk telling Peter Diamandis that going to medical school is "pointless" went viral this week. His reason: soon everyone will have access to medical care better than what the president receives today. A lot of doctors are angry. I think his reason is the part that matters.
I'm not a doctor. I've spent the last ten years building medical companies alongside doctors, and what held patients back was rarely a lack of medical knowledge. It was access. Too few doctors, in too few places, with too few minutes for each person. That is exactly what AI is solving. A model that has read every guideline and every paper, answers at 3 a.m. in your own language and never rushes you is no longer science fiction.
So would I tell my kids to skip medicine? My oldest, Mia, is 15. If Mia wanted to be a doctor, I'd say go for it. Just be a new kind of doctor: one who works with AI from the first day, takes the hard cases and the human moments, and cares for thousands of people instead of dozens.
Whether it takes four years or eight, the direction is clear. Presidential-level care for everyone is the right goal, and AI is how we get there.
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Never underestimate how much you'll grow while working under the guidance of an older experienced person who is unreasonably demanding, incredibly supportive, and has your deepest respect.
But understand this hard truth: To find that person and be worth their time, you typically have to be an incredibly skilled and hard worker in the first place. You are not going to run into that person if you’re mid and coasting.
The best career advice for young people is to just focus relentlessly on 3 things as early as possible:
1. Get skilled. Technical skills, writing skills, people-orchestration skills, everything.
2. Get involved contributing to a mission you're aligned with. It doesn't have to be pure bliss and your contribution doesn't have to match your top strengths exactly. But at the end of the day you have to feel some pride in what you did or what you learned. If you can find something like that while becoming skilled in a number of different ways then you'll find ways to increasingly wrap your skill profile around it (and you'll find/develop strengths in your skill profile that you never expected).
3. Pick up momentum. If you do (1) and (2) right then you've got direction and potential and all that's left is to sprint forwards and achieve it. The more momentum you pick up, the better you get, the more real value you produce, the more opportunities you create, the more you get noticed, the more value you capture into your own life, the more effort you want to put in... you create a virtuous cycle with so much momentum behind it that it becomes an unstoppable virtuous cyclone.
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I often hear, 'That AI tool you're using will be obsolete in six months.'
Ok. So what? The project you finish, the business you help, the customers you serve, even the skills you develop along the way WON'T BE!
Stop worrying about whether things survive, and focus on what you're building with them.
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East Asia's most livable cities, on a foreign income.
Japan FTW: for what these charts are worth, it's interesting to see how the stereotypes are almost always confirmed.
ALT Chart of 29 East Asian cities: yearly cost on an $86K remote salary against quality of life. An orange box highlights Sapporo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Kobe and Fukuoka in Japan at the top of best value; Taiwan's cities are the cheapest good options, Hong Kong is in bad value, and Beijing and Tianjin sit near the bottom.
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Tesla $TSLA reportedly plans to open consumer reservations for its Optimus V3 humanoid robot in early December, with pricing expected above $20,000 and deliveries unlikely before late 2027.
Tesla has not confirmed the reservation plans, while Musk continues targeting production of 20,000 robots per week by late 2027 despite ongoing technical challenges.
