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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.

@Kohlliers @TMZ It’s so clear that Nick wanted to respond, but felt eclipsed by Rob’s long monologue.

@TMZ There was a strange awkwardness between Rob Reiner and his son Nick that’s glaringly obvious from this interview they did together. Very sad. x.com/GenXPatriot196…

#EXCLUSIVE 🚨 Rob Reiner & son Nick got into a heated argument at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party over the weekend. Details: tmz.me/I5wcZnZ

@PatriotVerity @Pro__Trading This is only true if the interest rates are the same. But I suspect a 50 year will have a higher rate than a 30 year since there’s more risk.

@Pro__Trading Someone who cannot qualify for a 30-year mortgage due to their debt-to-income ratio, but is financially responsible enough to pay a home off in 30 years, can benefit from a 50-year mortgage. Also, freedom from arbitrary rules set by a landlord is priceless.

People invest with a different mindset today. In 1950 you bought a house you lived there till you died and you paid off your mortgage as fast as possible and you probably didn't have anything in the stock market. Today, people look at a home as an asset, not necessarily something to hold forever. I asked grok if somebody took the 50 year mortgage instead of the 30 year mortgage on a $300,000 mortgage at 6% interest and then invested the savings into the S&P 500 if they would come out ahead after 20 years and here's what he said.

@nz482648 @third_street @elonmusk My laparoscopic hysterectomy was done by a robotic mechanism that came down from the ceiling in the OR. The surgeon wasn’t even in the room.

@third_street @elonmusk Ask yourself this, would I want that operating on my brain?

@Sue132435 @TwinFlagsEagle @WallStreetApes Right. Because Japan is SUPER Christian. 🙄

@TwinFlagsEagle @WallStreetApes It's because we no longer have Judeo- Christian guardrails. A republic without this faith will not stand. The founders were overwhelmingly CHRISTIAN.

New shopping carts will eliminate cashier jobs in America With these shopping carts you scan all your items as you shop and put them into the cart. It even has a scale for fruits and vegetables Once done you complete payment on the cart, he shows it even accepts EBT Food Stamps

@chernjotr @jsnjarrell76 @gc22gc I don’t know how old you are, but women in the 50s, 60s, 70s drank and smoked through their pregnancies as a normal thing.

@jsnjarrell76 @gc22gc Pregnant were never told to take any pharmaceuticals during pregnancy until the 90's? My mother's generation was adamant about not taking any drug or alcohol, and my Dr's said no in the 80's. Now, 70% of pregnant women in US take Tylenol? That's insane!

BANNON: One of the most important sessions ever. In an hour Trump dropped bombshells, eviscerated Big Pharma, told people not to take Tylenol, and said there’s no ADHD. I can already see lawsuits coming. It’ll be studied for years. Incredible.

@chopperface69 @BobTheMutant @vrgldh No. The one who makes more money gives to the parent who makes less. It has nothing to do with effort. Minimum wage workers often work harder than cushy white collar office workers. The guy replacing a roof in 90 degrees F is working way harder than me analyzing a spreadsheet

@BobTheMutant @vrgldh The one who works harder gives money to the one who makes less.

Fascinating how divorce rates in KY plummeted after 50-50 shared custody was set as the standard.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

@JConabicycle @Real_Genios @tomroussey7news @AnnaBower Actually NIMBYS are one both sides, and to build more track the government would need to seize properties owned and occupied by others. Look up CA’s attempt…environmentalists and land owners alike.

@Real_Genios @tomroussey7news @AnnaBower It's not an "embarrassment" it is an indictment of Republicans--and it's mostly them--who do NOT WANT TO INVEST IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. We need better rails for trains and they cost money. GOP wants to keep us on the highway, in fossil fueled cars. That's how THEY stay rich.

For the first time ever, an Amtrak NextGen Acela train just pulled up to Union Station. It had left Boston at 6 AM this morning, taking roughly 7 hours to make the entire trip.

@Shannon02905950 @thefactsdude @thehoffather @ThnKMyMmsGnCrzy They were found “Not Guilty” of Second degree attempted murder. But the dad was found GUILTY second-degree assault, fourth-degree assault, and unlawful imprisonment. The mom was found GUILTY of violating a protective order. They are being sentenced for those guilty verdicts.

@thefactsdude @thehoffather @ThnKMyMmsGnCrzy I don’t understand. They are not guilty of the charges but they have sentencing in Aug?

BREAKING: Iraqi parents who were caught on video and charged for an attempted honor killing of their high-school age daughter found NOT GUILTY by jury in Washington state

@LyndaJane8 @leiacorgi @WallStreetApes If they were doing that, they’d get more money as infants. Why keeps them through toddlerhood?

@leiacorgi @WallStreetApes Sell them to couples who cant have kids ?

Couple who lives in a home that looks like a castle in California discovered to have 21 children, 17 children under the age of 3 The couple is Chinese and 6 kids had been placed into other homes by the couple Clearly running a child trafficking operation It’s always California

@_SaaSuke @Tw_tterSucks_ @WallStreetApes It’s because corporations are buying all the houses to force the peasants to rent at higher cost.

@Tw_tterSucks_ @WallStreetApes We can't afford the houses because previous generations let in 50 million immigrants, and printed 40 trillion dollars, and let China buy houses.

So many Americans have to be feeling this same way “Why is no one talking about how serious the cost of living actually is? — My husband is working three jobs right now. We buy absolutely nothing, nothing that we don't need, and we actually go without a lot of things that we actually do need. I feel like if you're able to do anything that's not just surviving, then you got it good. I feel so sad that I didn't appreciate the times where we were able to actually have fun at this point. So much has changed in the past few years. Like, what? I just really, really want to know. How's everyone surviving? Is everyone working, like, 24/7? Because that's what my husband does, and I'm just home with my little kids all the time. It's kind of, like, depressing that we're never together as a family. So I don't know. I hope one day we can be, but it sucks.”

@mos03c @GrouchoG @tilburgprogrock @atrupar If you have any left over, it can also power your flux capacitor .

@GrouchoG @tilburgprogrock @atrupar Just use plutonium.

Trump: "We're letting people build their own power plants. A lot of them are being built with the AI and beyond the AI. Chips. We're letting them build their own power. Never been done before ... they'll sort of be their own power company. They couldn't believe it when I told them that."

@pAggie1962 @krassenstein For me, I want the money circulating in the economy, not sitting in off-shore accounts hoarded by the wealthy. When you give the money to the bottom 90%, the money gets circulated keeping the economy healthy.

@krassenstein I fail to understand why anyone thinks it a BAD thing for people of any income level to keep more of the money they have earned rather than have it taken by an inefficient, bloated and somewhat corrupt government.

BREAKING: The 7,000 IRS agents fired by Trump and DOGE appear to have mainly been employees who worked in the Large Business and International (LB&I) division, which audits companies with more than $10 million in assets and high-income individuals. Weird, right? It’s almost as if they are trying to help Billionaires and cut the revenue of the US, meaning that the middle class will suffer.

@Meepmeepreap @TruthierT @angijones So does this mean puberty is not delayed if the child is adopted and is living with parents who are not blood related?

One of my daughters started going through puberty at age 7. I was devastated for her. We saw a specialist endocrinologist at Melbournes Royal Children’s hospital, home of the infamous gender clinic. I assumed she would be placed on puberty blockers but it was made clear to me that puberty blockers were far too dangerous to give to otherwise healthy children. They were only given to children with serious conditions where the hormonal surges of puberty could be life threatening. Children with life limiting congenital abnormalities (who weren’t expected to live to adulthood) and cancer (particularly bone cancer) patients. It is astonishing to me that the same hospital now routinely provides puberty blockers to healthy children despite the known risks. I’m sick of being told to “Do my research” on this topic by groomer parents when I was informed directly by RCH endocrinologists. #BanPubertyBlockers

@Dogsnkidnmeomy @JournalistJill Or there’s a genetic component, perhaps

@JournalistJill I have a friend from high school whose 2 daughters are now both her sons. She’s very proud of them. Talk about going hard for an ideology.

One of my kids’ 13yo friends came out to her mum as ‘trans’ last night and apparently mum’s reaction was: ‘Ok, that’s fine but you know you are never going to be a boy?’ The kid is fuming but that’s top parenting, right there. 🔥 🔥

@FeagleLegal @whstancil Then they’ll be bought up by private equity and rented to the peasant class.

@whstancil Housing markets about to be overwhelmed with thousands of folks losing their homes.

Americans do not understand the incredible crisis consuming all components of their government at once. Thousands of jobs lost, projects on hold, desks unmanned, services stopped, basic safety neglected. Total chaos. Stuff is going to start breaking down, maybe catastrophically.

@smasher5000 @Bitnik9k @kellyinvegas If it helps to stop the spread of HIV, then yes. The less communicable disease, the less we worry about it coming to our country causing more medical spending. And, if we don’t help, China will, thereby giving them more world influence. That spending helps US in the long run.

@Bitnik9k @kellyinvegas You’re okay with sending our $50 million to pay for condoms in another country?

I know this is political (even though it shouldn’t be) but why are people opposing auditing the federal government? I want to know where every dollar I send goes.

@1KarenLandreth @DavidJHarrisJr I thought you guys were against diversity.

@DavidJHarrisJr Also, no scantily clad women, they exposed Diddy, Epstein, and other pedofiles. All major WINS! However, there’s a huge lack of diversity here.

A black man performing at the Super Bowl halftime show… And no BLM messaging! No Rainbow Flags flying! His whole dance team is reppin RED WHITE and BLUE!!! I am pleasantly surprised… so far!

@stijnnoorman @Road_runner_Jim I hope some day the education system would find a new paradigm that would allow those kids to learn in a more dynamic way and learn meditation skills as a part of the curriculum. Drugging then and making them sit in a seat doesn’t feel like the ideal strategy.

@Road_runner_Jim yes you're right Jim, I could've done a better job making that clearer!

The biggest medical scam: ADHD. It’s not a mental disorder, it’s a superpower in disguise. Here’s how you turn ADHD into hyper-focus (backed by science):