Dan Trantham

Exactly. And what happens when the executive clarity is not fit for global distribution yet? For example, if the board of directors is seeking to acquire a competitor or intending to directly fight a competing brand, and that mission planning can only be disseminated through a limited number of layers of coordinators to retain strategic positioning? The various layers can act as “all warfare is based on deception”. Even to the point of deceiving your own foot soldiers as to effectively deceive your competitors. Not saying I’m a fan of internal deception, but it is a reality.

The theory is elegant. The question is whether it survives contact with the part of management that has nothing to do with information routing. Resolving a conflict between two people who do not trust each other. Delivering feedback that changes someone’s trajectory. Making a judgment call when the data supports both options equally. Deciding who gets the opportunity and who does not. None of that is a bandwidth problem. None of it gets solved by a world model, no matter how real-time. The org chart is inefficient at routing information. But most of what middle management actually does, when done well, is not routing information. It is absorbing ambiguity so the people above and below them can operate with clarity. The manager who translates a vague executive mandate into a concrete sprint plan is not a layer. They are a translator. Removing the layer without replacing the translation function just pushes the ambiguity onto the individual contributors, who now have more autonomy and less context simultaneously. Block may be the exception that proves the rule. They have a singular founder with extreme clarity of vision, a product that generates structured data by default, and a culture that was built around this philosophy from the beginning. Most companies are not Block. Most companies have legacy teams, competing priorities, and leaders who cannot articulate what the world model should optimize for. Telling those companies to flatten their org chart is like telling someone to remove the scaffolding before the building can stand on its own. The right question is not how much of your org exists to route information. It is how much of your org exists to make judgment calls that no system can automate. If the answer is most of it, the hierarchy is not your problem. It is your infrastructure.

Jack Dorsey just published something that should be required reading for every founder. The premise: the org chart needs to be replaced entirely. And the argument starts 2,000 years ago. For thousands of years, every organization on earth has run on the same logic the Roman Army invented. Small teams report to a leader → Leaders report to managers → Managers report to executives. The whole structure exists for one reason: to route information up and down the chain. That's it. The whole system exists to solve a bandwidth problem. Jack's argument is simple: AI solves it better. Block built what they call a "world model" - a continuously updated picture of everything happening across the company. Every decision. Every customer. Every transaction. Every bottleneck. In real time. No status update needed. No weekly sync. No manager to translate what's happening on the ground into language the executive can understand. When the world model carries the information, you don't need the layers. So they eliminated them. Block now runs on three roles: Individual contributors who build. DRIs who own specific outcomes for a fixed period. Player-coaches who develop people while still doing the work themselves. No middle layer. The system handles coordination. The humans handle the work. I've coached thousands of founders. The number one problem is always the same: information latency. By the time a problem surfaces from your front line to leadership, it's already compounded. By the time a decision travels back down, the damage is done. That lag costs you deals, people, and momentum. And most founders accept it as the price of scale. Block is trying to prove you don't have to anymore. I think they're right. Because the hierarchy was never the point - it was just the best tool we had. The moment something better exists, the layers eventually collapse. This is either the biggest structural shift since the 1850s - or it breaks at scale like everything else before it. Either way - every founder should be asking the same question: how much of your org exists just to route information? If the answer is "most of it" - that's your problem. And your opportunity. -DM

@elonmusk Well, maybe build another one. Maybe three will prove you can really do it.

Given that I have built two companies in widely different fields to trillion dollar plus valuations simultaneously, I am might be getting a few things right once in a while

To fully grasp what Schaeffer says throughout his works, read an easier book on the same by Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth. The playing field wasn’t taken from us…we walked off the field..the fields of science, law, medicine, everything…we softened a head knowledge religion to a heart knowledge religion. We disengaged when other intellectual worldviews were seeking to expand. Christ is King over all…we should go about our unique lives and various vocations with that confidence.

45 years ago Schaefer, leaning on men like Dooyeweerd and Rushdoony, understood the crisis of our culture and its basic causes in the life of the Christian church & our abandonment of the Lordship of Christ. He did not blame it on conspiracies or Jews. We should have listened.

I responded a thread a couple years ago where someone asked, “how far would you drive to find the right church?” Some replies mentioned a drive of over an hour to “connect” to the right preacher. I never understood that logic. On one hand, I appreciate the grit of a believer sacrificing that about of time and energy to be fed. On the other hand, how can a pastor shepherd his flock from the next county over? In Kenya, the rule of thumb, since most people walk to the church building, is that they worship with other believers/attendees in a four-mile from their abode. The community is created by their physical proximity. Since vehicles, highways, and even virtual streaming have made time and distance shrink, when do we make a conscious effort to ensure our brothers and sisters are ministered to “in-person” while amid their day-to-day needs, joys, and sorrows? When do pastors tend to the tender needs of their flock?

Unpopular pastoral opinion #9? A pastor should be available to chat with his congregation often, he should know the name of the people in his church, he should visit them, spend time with them, and know their lives. Pastors who don’t aren’t pastors, they are public speakers

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

@ToddBurkh21222 @BiblicalBeauty Is it possible that what offends our biblical creation worldview is less what Darwin actually wrote in Origin of Species and more what later, anti‑Christian thinkers built on top of it?

@BiblicalBeauty In reality land, Lennox rejects the creation account & biblical timeline in favor of deep time Big Bang. He told Richard Dawkins on camera this: QUOTE: “I do believes in evolution as Darwin saw it”. Lennox is deeply compromised and has conformed to this fallen world. Rom.12:2

Oxford professor John Lennox in an interview with Jordan Peterson in 2023 explained his view that there is no conflict between science and Christianity: "I never saw the tension between Christianity and science because very early on as a teenager I was introduced to the writings of a scientist who was a Christian who drew my attention to something Alfred North Whitehead wrote, and it was really put in much simpler language by C.S. Lewis when he wrote 'Men became scientific because they expected law in nature, and they expected law in nature because they believed in a Lawgiver.' And so, very early on, and I was fascinated by the idea, that actually modern science is a legacy of the biblical worldview, and therefore, it's no accident that the pioneers—Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Maxwell, and so on—were believers in God. And as you pointed out, it underpins the tradition that lies behind the great universities of the world that the doctrine of Creation was actually the belief, the underlying presupposition, that allowed people to do science. So I've come over my life to the conclusion that science and the biblical worldview sit very comfortably together, but it's science and atheism that do not sit comfortably together."

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@GTP8878 😂

Fort Smith police department fighting crime in Fort Smith by hiding in neighborhoods and waiting for convicts to roll through stop signs in Fianna Hills. $250 tickets coming for your wallet you criminals!

.@POTUS, this is Mayorkas 2.0. I was the Dem lead on the Laken Riley bill. I want a secure border. You’re accomplishing that. Double down on deporting criminal migrants. It’s what any reasonable citizen wants and voted for.

🚨| Sir Lewis Hamilton: "I think (Africa) is the most beautiful part of the world and I don't like that the rest of the world owns so much of it and takes so much from it and no one speaks about it. And I'm really looking forward to and hoping that the people that are running those different countries all unite and come together and take Africa back." "That's what I want to see. Take it back from the French. Take it back from the Spanish. Take it back from Portuguese and the British." "It's so, so important for the future of that country and for that continent. I mean, they have all the resources to be the greatest and most powerful place in the world and that's probably why they are being controlled the way they are." [F1 2026 Australia Press Conference]

🚨 BREAKING: US CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper announces 50,000 TROOPS, 200 fighters, 2 aircraft carriers and bombers are currently participating in the military campaign against Iran He says Iran is NOTICEABLY becoming weaker! - Nearly 2,000 THOUSAND Iranian targets struck - Iranian air defense is being decimated - B-2 and B-1 bombers are executing uncontested surgical strikes against missile facilities DEEP inside Iran - Iranian Navy is being SUNK en masse, 17 ships sunk "And MORE capability is on the way." HUGE victory coming. 🇺🇸 "Having said this, we are seeing Iran's ability to hit us and our partners is declining, while our combat power, on the other hand, is building." "And my overall operational assessment is that we are ahead of our game plan. Along the way, every single branch of our military is achieving unprecedented success."

@shanaka86 @grok, how many toilets? Enough for 5,000 shipmates?

The USS Gerald R. Ford is not parked near Iran. It is parked off Israel. And nobody is asking the only question that matters: why. The $13.3 billion crown jewel of the US Navy, the largest warship ever constructed, just positioned itself off Haifa. Not in the Arabian Sea where the Lincoln sits 850 kilometers from Iranian shores loaded for offensive operations. Not in the Gulf where strike range is optimal. Off Israel. Defending Israel. This is not redundancy. This is architecture. Two carriers. Two missions. Two entirely different strategic functions. The Lincoln is the sword, positioned to launch strike packages into Iranian airspace within hours of an order. The Ford is the shield, its Aegis missile defense systems creating an umbrella over Israeli population centers against the retaliation that follows the first Tomahawk. America just split its carrier doctrine into offense and defense simultaneously. That has not happened since the Pacific theater in 1945. But the positioning reveals something deeper than tactics. When Iran retaliates, and every wargame says Iran retaliates, its missiles and drones fly toward Israel. They will fly through the same airspace where a US carrier strike group is now stationed. Every Iranian missile aimed at Tel Aviv or Haifa must traverse the Ford’s defensive envelope. Shooting at Israel means shooting at, around, and through an American carrier group. Iran cannot retaliate against Israel without engaging American naval assets. The Ford’s position makes that physically impossible. The carrier is not defending Israel as a favor. It is positioned so that any Iranian response to American strikes automatically becomes an attack on American forces, triggering the full unrestrained weight of US military response without a single additional political decision required. This is escalation insurance written in steel and seawater. If the campaign goes longer than planned, if munitions run thin in 7 to 10 days, if allies hesitate, the Ford’s position ensures that Iranian retaliation does the political work Washington cannot do alone: it transforms a limited American strike into an act of self-defense that no ally can refuse to support. You do not park a $13.3 billion carrier where the enemy’s return fire will hit it unless you want the enemy’s return fire to hit it. The Ford is not there to prevent escalation. The Ford is there to guarantee that if escalation comes, it comes on terms that make American restraint politically impossible and allied participation politically unavoidable.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@HuffPost Shut up.

You’re welcome.

@megbasham @DavidAFrench TDS. The answer you’re looking for is: TDS.

@DavidAFrench THEN WHY DID YOU TELL CHRISTIANS TO VOTE FOR THE PERSON PROMISING TO ENSHRINE THIS ABUSE INTO LAW????

This is absolutely expected. The facts in many of these cases are truly shocking, and juries were never going to be swayed by extreme and bespoke ideological justifications for drastic and permanently life-altering medical procedures.

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers. One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway. But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely. Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop. The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk. The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms. Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk. Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

COMMANDER: We’re fighting for freedom. And part of that freedom… is the freedom to retire with dignity. So we’re going to start accounts called 401(k)s. SOLDIER 1: What’s a 401(k)? COMMANDER: It’s a retirement account. You put money in, it grows tax-free, you take it out when you’re old. SOLDIER 2: So I don’t pay taxes on it? COMMANDER: Well, you pay taxes later. When you withdraw. SOLDIER 2: So it’s not tax-free. COMMANDER: It’s…tax-deferred. SOLDIER 2: What’s the difference? COMMANDER: You pay taxes later instead of now. SOLDIER 1: What if I want to pay taxes now? COMMANDER: Then you do a Roth 401(k). SOLDIER 3: What’s a Roth? COMMANDER: You pay taxes now, and it grows tax-free. SOLDIER 2: That’s what I thought the first one was. COMMANDER: No, the first one you pay taxes later. SOLDIER 1: Which one’s better? COMMANDER: Depends on your tax bracket in retirement. SOLDIER 1: …How would I…know that? COMMANDER: You don’t. You just guess. ⸻ SOLDIER 4: What if I don’t have a 401(k) through my employer? COMMANDER: Then you open an IRA. SOLDIER 4: What’s the difference? COMMANDER: One’s through your job, one’s on your own. SOLDIER 4: Can I have both? COMMANDER: Yes. SOLDIER 4: Should I? COMMANDER: Maybe. SOLDIER 3: Can I do a Roth IRA? COMMANDER: Only if you make under a certain amount. SOLDIER 3: What’s the limit? COMMANDER: Changes every year. SOLDIER 2: What if I make too much? COMMANDER: Then you do a backdoor Roth by putting it in a Traditonal first. SOLDIER 2: …Is that legal? COMMANDER: Surprisingly, yes. SOLDIER 1: What’s a backdoor Roth? COMMANDER: You contribute to a traditional IRA, then convert it to a Roth…but watch out for “pro rata”. SOLDIER 1: Why wouldn’t I just contribute to the Roth directly? COMMANDER: Because you make too much money. SOLDIER 1: But this way I can? COMMANDER: Yes. SOLDIER 1: That feels like a loophole. COMMANDER: It is. But the IRS is cool with it. ⸻ SOLDIER 5: I just changed battalions. What do I do with my old 401(k)? COMMANDER: You roll it over. SOLDIER 5: Into what? COMMANDER: An IRA. Or your new 401(k). Depends. SOLDIER 5: On what? COMMANDER: The funds. The fees. Whether your new plan accepts rollovers. SOLDIER 5: What if I just take the money out? COMMANDER: You’ll pay taxes plus a 10% penalty. SOLDIER 5: What if I’m 59? COMMANDER: Penalty. SOLDIER 5: 59 and a half? COMMANDER: No penalty. SOLDIER 5: …The half matters? COMMANDER: The half matters. ⸻ SOLDIER 3: What’s a mega backdoor Roth? COMMANDER: Okay. So. Your 401(k) has a limit of how much you can contribute. SOLDIER 3: Right. COMMANDER: But the total limit including employer contributions is higher. SOLDIER 3: Okay… COMMANDER: So if your plan allows ~after-tax~ contributions, you can put in more, then convert that to Roth. SOLDIER 3: Does my plan allow that? COMMANDER: I don’t know. You have to ask Betsy. SOLDIER 3: Will Betsy know? COMMANDER: Probably not. ⸻ SOLDIER 2: Can I deduct my IRA contribution on my taxes? COMMANDER: Are you covered by a retirement plan at work? SOLDIER 2: Yes. COMMANDER: Then only if you make under a certain amount per year. SOLDIER 2: What’s the amount? COMMANDER: Depends if you’re married. SOLDIER 2: What if my wife has a plan but I don’t? COMMANDER: Different limit. SOLDIER 2: What if neither of us has a plan? COMMANDER: Full deduction. SOLDIER 2: So it’s better to not have a 401(k)? COMMANDER: No… ⸻ SOLDIER 1: Can I just keep my money in a sock? COMMANDER: You could. But inflation will slowly destroy it. SOLDIER 1: What’s inflation? COMMANDER: (sighs)…

@RedDoubleJ @grok @KatrinaCadotte @Mealsandeals @0hour1 @jimmy_rustlin @elonmusk Yea, I don’t think I disagreed. I referenced the sources. We can already read those sources. One would assume a supercomputer AGI should be able audit more than the usual aggregates of information. Several responses made it about the topic at hand.

@dan_trantham @grok @KatrinaCadotte @Mealsandeals @0hour1 @jimmy_rustlin @elonmusk I agree with you. I have daily task for @grok to give me top ten news items every morning and headlines it makes seem left leaning most of the time. I'd prefer neutral if possible. Idk what rap sheet people are trying to get grok to post but I'd like an unbiased response too

Hey @jimmy_rustlin can you pull Renee Good's rap sheet. Multiple States Focus on Colorado and other states

@MM_schwartz @grok @KatrinaCadotte @Mealsandeals @0hour1 @jimmy_rustlin @elonmusk Amen!