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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…
Under that criteria there is a pretty good case for adding Polk
Please stop using Mount Rushmore as a metaphor for the top four of something. That's not why Gutzon Borglum chose Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt for the monument.
Washington represents the start of the nation. Jefferson represents expansion. Lincoln represents preservation, and Roosevelt represents the growth into a global superpower.
He chose them because they represent four key stages in American history.
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“Many people don’t do this thing, therefore it is not useful to do this thing” is an interesting argument
This should hopefully be good data against "kids should memorize basic math facts"
- Forget times tables: half of you (including me) don't memorize your addition tables past 5+5. You have to chunk up 8+7
- The other half of you are shocked to learn this
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Buchanan was clearly a gay president (likely had an affair with William Rufus, VP of Pierce). But he was also one of the worst presidents so no one wants to claim him. Instead we call him our only “bachelor president”
TMZ: “Are we going to have a female president first or a g*y president?”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): “Well, we don’t know if we’ve already had a g*y president. I think there’s chances maybe we have but I don’t know.”
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Too much of education is built for the adults and not for the children
Direct instruction is incredibly effective but never took off because it's boring for the teacher. Teachers, like all people, want to be creative in their job.
The solution is obvious: let software do the boring teaching work.
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It’s not just seminar discussions.
Science fairs are just as bad.
No: your 12-year old hasn’t invented a new way to create unlimited energy
Build a knowledge base first. Then you will be ready for innovation later
Ok I’m going to be *actually* conservative here: high school students shouldn’t sit around a table in "seminars"
They should learn.
A high school student has nothing interesting to say about Beowulf, sorry, and having a "seminar discussion" around his thoughts on Beowulf is a waste of his, his classmates, and the teacher’s time.
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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”
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
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.
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