Matt Monge
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Matt Monge
@MattMonge
Executive, coach, creative, humorist. Believe in the power of people, ideas, words, design. #Mensa member.
Kansas City, MO Katılım Mayıs 2009
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"Elsewhere"
I feel it in the spaces-
the ones between sentences,
between breaths,
between bodies
that used to bend toward each other.
Bodies in orbit but hearts in suspension,
screens hold the gaze
that we once lent each other.
Fingers flicker like candles
in cathedrals of the distracted,
bodies side by side but miles apart.
It's not the glow that haunts me.
It's the way eyes don't meet anymore.
Rooms full of people,
all somewhere else.
The silence isn't empty.
It's heavy—
a weighted whisper
pressing against the ribs.
We don't look away anymore.
We don't look up to begin with.
I move through the quiet like a ghost who still remembers what laughter sounded like when it lived outside a phone speaker.
We scroll instead of speak,
trade touch for touchscreens
and call it connection,
but we're all buffering between breaths.
Ghosts with glowing thumbs,
souls synced but not seen, congregating in silence
under backlit blue beams.
We build card-constructed houses of glass and code,
kneel at the altar of "just one more scroll,"
baptized by pings,
redeemed by nothing.
Every glance,
averted.
Every mom ent,
divided.
Presence, a currency we've forgotten how to spend.
The revolution we feared didn't come with bombs.
It came with notifications.
Conversations grew shallow,
touch grew optional,
presence became a background process.
I'm not drowning in the noise.
I'm stranded in the quiet it left behind. Surrounded by faces turned away,
not from me,
but into something else entirely.
There's a strange kind of loneliness in a room full of people who aren't really here.
Not gone.
Just... elsewhere.
And I wonder,
since they're all,
always,
looking down,
does it mean that
what—or who—they'd see if they were looking up is somehow worth.. less?
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#poetry #spokenwordpoetry #socialcriticism #writing #tech
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"The entire World Cup tournament will have Kansas City fingerprints. Games in [multiple states] will all be played in stadiums designed by architects in Kansas City — the world capital of sports stadium design." shared a Washington Post writer in "What is America’s best sports city? Nine compete for the crown."
Kansas City rose among the ranks, recognized for “punching above its weight,” and being a place “where new sports find a warm welcome, and sports history has a place of honor.”
Read the full article here: bit.ly/47GpIRQ
#WeAreKansasCity #FIFAWorldCup


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I haven't posted on Twitter in a while, but @msmallmon mentioned @Entenmanns donuts with the crumbles on the top, and I nearly jumped out of my chair. FINALLY someone remembers these AMAZING breakfast treasures. Especially the devil's food ones. Haven't seen them in decades. @UnSportsESPN
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Really awesome story here. Congratulations to the students who've shown leadership over the past few years, as well as the teachers and school. @ADButlerOW @AnnaLynnMorris @olatheschools @MaBlackOW @OWNovacekOWLS #HispanicHeritageMonth #olathe #olatheschools #olathewest
Jay Novacek@OWNovacekOWLS
Congrats to our Owls who were honored for their community service last night at the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration of Excellence! Also, shout out to OW senior Teddy Garcia who won the Leadership Award! @olatheschools
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@grohs_n @acmilan @pumafootball Came from Hershey 😉
I'm having a bit of fun, of course. A tip o' the hat to the fine folks at Dortmund for their development work and giving him his first professional break.
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He set up our first, and now he's scored our second! Christian Pulisic. 😍
❤🖤 2-0 🔵 (31') @pumafootball

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@OpenAI CGPT search function appears to be down. I've cleared cache, force stopped, uninstalled & reinstalled, tried from WiFi and mobile, etc.

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@pulisic was turned and gone before they knew what had happened. Then that dime to @balogun ? 🔥
#usmnt #usvsjapan #USsoccer
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This is awesome news. Thanks @sama & rest of the @OpenAI team.
The number and variety of ways I've integrated ChatGPT into life is just fascinating, even as I look back and reflect. And those ways have evolved, of course.
The great part is how it's become a partner in my own growth, learning, development, productivity, self-awareness & discovery, and more.
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My son just referred to Dillon Brooks as "Temu Draymond" and I'll never not hear it when I see either of them the rest of my life.
Also, I've never been more proud.
#parentingwin #dadlife #nba #dubnation #GoWarriors #goldenstate @Money23Green #nbahumor
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Crazy. The number of DMs since my previous @Airbnb @AirbnbHelp post kinda surprised me. One attorney friend, handful of CX folks, a rival travel/vacation company, and a couple others.
#airbnb #airbnbarbitrage #airbnbhelp
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.@AirbnbHelp @Airbnb In the interest of trying one, more avenue, I'm reaching out here before I'm left with other choices I'd prefer not to pursue. A host willfully delayed responding to a refund request; and then they and Airbnb support passed me back and forth for a week and half.
Then they decided that (since the host delayed, of course) it was too late. You see the problem here, right?
So no trip, out thousands of dollars, and no recourse.
Pretty sweet deal for the host and Airbnb.
#airbnb #airbnbsuppot #cx #CustomerExperience #customersupportfail #customerexperiencefail #cxfail #servicefail #airbnbarbitrage #airbnbscam #scam #travelscam #customerservice
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