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Vladimir Putin: "I want the ordinary citizens of Western countries to hear me.. The truth is that the problems you are facing now are the result of years of actions by the ruling elites of your own countries"

@_redfeels Goals, Hard work and progress

what substance do i have to abuse to enjoy living

@AsianDawn4 Did Kamala write here speech?

I thought this was fake. It's not 😂 "Being Somali is more than bananas & rice, it's a lot, it's uh.. it's kind of like bananas & rice"

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Last September I announced mandatory return-to-office. Five days a week. I called it a "culture-first initiative." Culture means presence. Presence means badge swipes. Badge swipes mean metrics. Metrics mean I can prove something to the board. I don't know what. But I can prove it. The announcement went out on a Tuesday. I sent it from my home office. In Aspen. I have an exemption. "Strategic leaders require location flexibility to maintain global perspective." I wrote that policy. HR approved it. HR approves everything I write. By Wednesday, 340 employees had updated their LinkedIn status to "Open to Work." I called it "natural attrition." Natural attrition means they quit before I had to pay severance. Very natural. We lost 47 engineers in the first month. I told the board it was "alignment correction." The people who left weren't aligned. With coming to an office. That I also don't come to. But that's different. I'm strategic. The office costs $4.2 million per year. Empty, it was a write-off. Now it's a "collaboration hub." I measured collaboration. Average daily Zoom calls from the office: 7.4 per employee. They commute 45 minutes. To take calls they could take from home. But now they're "present." Presence is culture. I've never been more certain of anything. A senior engineer asked why we couldn't stay remote. She had metrics. Productivity was up 23% during remote work. I said, "Productivity isn't everything." She asked what else mattered. I said, "Serendipitous collisions." She asked how we measure serendipitous collisions. I said, "You can't. That's what makes them serendipitous." She stopped asking questions. Then she stopped showing up. Then LinkedIn said she's at a company that's "remote-first." Good luck with that. They'll learn. We installed badge tracking software. It cost $380,000. It tells me exactly when people arrive. And when they leave. And how long they spend in each zone. I check it every morning. From home. The data is fascinating. Average arrival time: 9:47 AM. Average departure time: 4:12 PM. I sent a Slack message. "Core hours are 9 to 6." Arrival times shifted to 9:02 AM. Departure times shifted to 6:01 PM. Productivity did not change. But the metrics look better. Metrics are culture. We have a "hybrid" option now. Three days in office. Mandatory Monday. Mandatory Wednesday. Mandatory Friday. That's called "hybrid." Because Tuesday and Thursday are optional. But there are "anchor meetings" on Tuesday and Thursday. Attendance is "strongly encouraged." "Strongly encouraged" means mandatory without the liability. I learned that from legal. The head of product asked if he could work from home when his wife had surgery. I said, "Of course. Family comes first." Then I said, "But let's revisit your Q4 performance targets." He came to the office. His wife understood. I assume. I didn't ask. That's personal. The CFO asked about ROI on the RTO policy. I showed him the badge data. "Presence is up 340%." He asked if revenue was up. I said, "Revenue is a lagging indicator." He asked what the leading indicator was. I said, "Badge swipes." He nodded. The lease renews next year. Seven more years. $29 million committed. We needed bodies in the building. Now we have bodies. Fewer than before. But present. Morale is down. Glassdoor says we're "hostile to work-life balance." I told HR to respond. They wrote, "We're a high-performance culture that values in-person collaboration." That's corporate for "the review is accurate." But it sounds like a rebuttal. The CEO asked if RTO was working. I said, "Absolutely." He asked for evidence. I showed him a photo of the office. Full desks. Glowing monitors. Bodies in chairs. He smiled. "This is what culture looks like." It looked like a stock photo. Because I got it from a stock photo website. The real office has 40% occupancy on a good day. But he doesn't know that. He's also remote. We're both strategic. Next quarter I'm proposing a "collaboration bonus." $2,000 for anyone with 95% badge-in compliance. The bonus costs less than the turnover. And it shifts the narrative. We're not forcing people to come in. We're "incentivizing presence." Incentivizing means paying people to do something they don't want to do. It's different from mandating. Legally. The employees who stayed are "loyal." Loyalty means they have mortgages. And kids in school districts. And RSUs that haven't vested. They're not loyal. They're trapped. But on paper, it looks like loyalty. And paper is what the board sees. I've been doing this for 22 years. I know what culture looks like. It looks like butts in seats. Butts in seats mean control. Control means management. Management means me. RTO isn't about productivity. It never was. It's about seeing people. So I know they exist. So I know they're working. So I know I'm in charge. That's culture. As long as the badge swipes go up and to the right.

@Mrcryptoxwhale @NoLimitGains @grok @grok pick me for this

@Mrcryptoxwhale @NoLimitGains @grok Done

@theRealKiyosaki Broken clock is right twice a day

I PREDICT: Silver opens tomorrow at $100 and goes to all time highs. What do you think?

@DevotedDividend @kinginvestings Dumb

@kinginvestings $5M cash

You get ONE choice for life: 850 credit score $5,000,000 cash $5,000/week forever 50 acres of land $0.50 every second forever What you taking?

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@theRealKiyosaki This guy loves to brag

PRACTICING WHAT I TEACH: I sold $2.25 million in Bitcoin for approximately $90,000. I purchased the Bitcoin for $6,000 a coin years ago. With the cash from Bitcoin I am purchasing two surgery centers and investing in a Bill Board business. I estimate my $2.25 million Bitcoin investment into the surgery centers and Bill Board business will be positive cash flowing aproximately $27,500 a month income by next February….tax free. Adding $27,500 a month income to my years of previous Cashflow positive real estate based business makes my cash flow cushion a bit fluffier, into $100’s of thousands per month. I am still very bullish and optimistic on Bitcoin and will begin acquiring more with my positive cash flow. This has been my “get rich plan” since I began playing Monopoly with my Rich Dad for over 65 years. I am not saying my plan should be your plan. Warren Buffet would think my plan too slow and foolish. Warren has his plan….as does Donald Trump has his plan. What is your “get rich plan?” If you have read Rich Dad Poor Dad and played my Cash Flow boardgame, you will recognize my latest Bitcoin acquisition of income generating real estate with tax and debt advantages….being played out in real life. I was advised against posting my Bitcoin liquidation and acquisition of real estate. You may know why I was advised against being transparent. Too many sickos out there. Yet in a world of “Fake $” and Fake Teachers” I thought it best you know “I practice what I TEACH.” More important question: “What is your get rich plan?” Please take care. World economy is going on a wild ride.

@Mrcryptoxwhale Done. 😃

@Fortniteteeeej @MartinShkreli No

@MartinShkreli Can someone smarter than me tell me if I should yolo my life savings into this?

$QUBT

I’ve sat through over 50 hours of Charlie Kirk’s videos as an ethnically Black American. Not one racist word. Not 1. What Democrats do is cut snippets, strip context, and shove sound bites at the same gullible slob audience too lazy to fact-check. That isn’t exposing racism .. it’s manufacturing lies to spark division.

@manly_mentor Not exactly how that works

Akon explains why Rich people never go Broke 🎯🔥

@libsoftiktok Democratic party of the devil

Rep. Lauren Boebert requests a moment of prayer for Charlie Kirk. Democrats shout "no!" and have a meltdown Scumbags

@cessonmute “ aroused”

we need a better word for horny that sounds elegant and gorgeous

@amritwt Thays probably alex harmozi

i think about this dude all the time

@creepydotorg @grok how does he have a white child

Just a reminder, this is Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris.

@FearedBuck I wanted to see too. Wtf?

Oblivion tried calling out a man for looking at a woman’s a*s but got pressed instead 💀

@Shalomheavens22 Also, he’s not homeless his home is literally in the picture

A homeless man who has Jesus is richer than a billionaire who doesn't🌚