Mike Harris - Thought Leadership Writer, Creator

@elonmusk Yes...read Cormac McCarthy's book Blood Meridian for more on this.

Ancient cultures were extremely violent, not “peace-loving ecologists” at all!

@BurchetteMason not as long as you're washing it down with homemade cornbread...

I told someone that I drink a gallon and a half of sweet tea every week and they lost their minds. Is that too much? 😅

@uaustinorg @benshapiro @JTLonsdale @nfergus This is great. I am visiting friends in Austin and wondering if it's possible to visit the campus and see UATX in person?

.@benshapiro at UATX with @JTLonsdale and @nfergus. 00:00 — UATX President Carlos Carvalho 03:16 — Niall Ferguson introduces Ben Shapiro 07:26 — Why UATX is important 08:09 — Why Americans hate each other 10:12 — Emotivism 11:57 — The death of politics 12:30 — Hannibal Lecter skin suits 12:53 — Conspiracy theories 14:11 — Why people don't go to church anymore 15:04 — Vaccines 16:02 — Social engineering & weak professors 17:08 — The last time Harvard meant veritas 17:49 — Epistemic humility 18:30 — Read the Federalist Papers 19:56 — War of all against all 21:03 — Capitalism & soul sickness 22:42 — Tribalism 23:38 — JS Mill and debate culture 26:09 — How to restore our institutions 26:40 — Why UATX matters 27:52 — Joe Lonsdale interviews Ben Shapiro 28:10 — What is a college degree worth? 29:46 — What Jews should learn from Christians and vice versa 32:21 — Candace Owens 34:24 — Audience Q&A: Abraham Lincoln & the Declaration of Independence 36:10 — Q&A: Constitutional boundaries 38:31 — Q&A: Tucker Carlson 42:09 — Q&A: American ingratitude 45:02 — Q&A: How to unite our country 48:24 — Q&A: How to repair our institutions 51:41 — Q&A: The three most important words in the English language 54:25 — Q&A: The future of populism 57:08 — Q&A: Lizard brains 59:43 — Q&A: How Israeli politics work 01:04:03 — Q&A: How to strengthen America 01:07:29 — Q&A: Practical advice for students 01:09:07 — Standing ovation for Ben Shapiro 01:09:36 — President Carlos Carvalho's speech 01:11:08 — How to raise lions Recorded: Sunday, April 26.

@uaustinorg Great tagline!

UATX, the renegade academy.

@FAFOFarmsTX no worries...thanks for responding and best wishes

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@PatriciaHeaton It's weird. I'm a marketing exec and I quickly tire of most memes. But this one is always awesome...

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@JordanSchachtel As a CMO, it's been fascinating — and frankly concerning — to watch several once-dominant consumer brands loudly disintegrate in recent years. The common thread? Terrible leadership decisions that prioritized virtue signaling over loyal customers. Caveat emptor investors.

Black Rifle Coffee is fast going bankrupt. Instead of protecting shareholders, they continue to sponsor Tucker Carlson. Shares down 80% since Tucker deal began. They're seeking shareholder approval for a 1 to 50 reverse split bc theyre not in compliance with NYSE. What a mess.

@Forbes rock on...I know a young woman who graduated from an honors college at Big State U...she's crushing it in PE...no MBA...

The University of Texas at Austin joins the #ForbesNewIvies, blending a 27% acceptance rate with a reputation for producing elite talent. From the LBJ Library to a legacy of leaders like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Longhorn graduates remain highly sought after. Read more: forbes.com/sites/aliciapa…

@neilpatel as a CMO I would appreciate seeing the ROI along with top line results...good post though

I recently met a company that grew from a million a month in revenue to over 23 million a month in just a few months. How? Running 4,500 new ads every month to figure out what converts best. In essence, they doubled down on creative and used AI to scale. Look at the data below. When you test creatives more frequently, typically your CPA goes down. So start testing. And if you haven't, use AI to scale the process.

@JTLonsdale @growing_daniel I would add that 'orange man bad' marketing is getting really old... they need a new schtick...

@growing_daniel The “left elite” like him believes everyone else is this dumb, and that this is how he’ll get power.

This dude is not going to be governor of California. This is too dumb

@aakashgupta yes...my mother played tennis into her 80s and loved every day of it... many of us old-timers have now switched to pickleball...still a great workout...still fun

Tennis players live 9.7 years longer than sedentary people. Not 9.7 months. 9.7 years. Nearly a decade. The Copenhagen City Heart Study tracked 8,577 people for 25 years and ranked every sport by how much life it adds. Badminton: 6.2 years. Soccer: 4.7. Cycling: 3.7. Swimming: 3.4. Jogging: 3.2. Tennis almost triples jogging. A separate study of 80,000 adults found racket sports cut all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%. Swimming hit 41%. Aerobics hit 36%. The question is why racket sports destroy everything else. Three mechanisms stack on top of each other. First, the physical demands. A tennis rally requires explosive sprints, lateral cuts, and sustained aerobic output. You're training fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers simultaneously. Most cardio only trains one system. Second, the cognitive load. You're reading spin, predicting angles, adjusting position, and executing motor patterns in real-time. Your brain is solving spatial puzzles at 80+ mph. That hand-eye coordination and strategic processing builds neural connections that protect against cognitive decline. Third, and this is the one researchers keep coming back to: you literally cannot play alone. Every racket sport requires another person on the other side of the net. That forced social interaction triggers neurochemical benefits that solitary exercise cannot replicate. Strong social connection alone increases your chance of longevity by 50%. Jogging is you and your thoughts. Tennis is you, a strategic opponent, and a community. Dr. Daniel Amen is right. The data is overwhelming. If you want the single highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket.

@GRITCULT longtime CMO here...true dat

@adamstatonsmith C-suite guy here...many years of market analysis and battling competition. I've seen this in the corporate world over and over, when market demand ebbs for products and services. IMO academia is not likely to fix this. All the signs point to a downward facing hockey stick.

Holy shit, UO is bleeding students and about to cut deep, and the president just sent the campus a polite warning shot.

@r0ck3t23 Grok says higher education in the U.S. generates around $900 billion in annual revenue, while public schools K-12 generate around $1 trillion. That's almost two trillion dollars. My business intuition tells me this is an industry ripe for disintermediation.

Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial. Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise. Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal. Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.” That is the product. Not intelligence. Not creativity. Not vision. Compliance. You are paying $200,000 to prove you can tolerate bureaucracy on a schedule. Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.” The entire system is a sorting machine for corporate HR. It does not measure what you can build. It measures whether you can sit still, follow directions, and deliver on command. Four years of obedience dressed as education. Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.” The system optimizes for average. It rewards the compliant. It certifies the patient. It quietly filters out everyone who refuses to wait for permission. The ones who reshaped the modern world never finished the test. Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.” They did not drop out because it was too hard. They dropped out because the speed limit was too low. The most dangerous thing a university does is convince a generational talent that finishing the syllabus is the achievement. It is not. It is the floor. A degree is a receipt for compliance. The future has never belonged to people who finish their homework. It belongs to the ones who never needed the assignment.

@TS_Secrets longtime corporate CMO here... I love seeing this rebirth of the trades and to see the interest it's generating with the younger crowd... achieving income stability, let alone wealth, was much easier for my generation...today' it's very difficult best wishes to all...

One of my neighbors kid went to trade school for HVAC at 18. His parents were embarrassed because everyone around us, college is the only option promoted. He spent $6k and started at $65k while his friends were still in school. At 25 he got his contractor license. At 27 he opened his own shop. Last year his company did $2.1 million in revenue with 3 trucks. His friends just started to pay off their student loans. Now, my neighbors cant stop bragging about their son who also is our neighborhood HVAC tech. Day 96 tagging @mikeroweworks to let everyone know that we need more kids like this.

@elonmusk Facilitating trade for those living in underserved areas and peoples is a gift of enormous value... little else so sparks the mind, imagination and motivation as a vision for bettering one's self and family...

Starlink has done more than any NGO to lift people out of poverty by connecting them with a means of education and a market for their good & services via the Internet

@LozzaFox Can't imagine what we'd do without them...

When I am away from my Fox pack, Ranger (the hero) always looks out for me.

@jacknicklausII awesome...thank you for sharing this

Still dad’s caddie!!! #themasters

@astro_reid daughters rock!

Distance makes the heart grow fonder…it didn’t take 219,669 miles to remind me how much love I have for Ellie and Katey. They have been incredible supporters during this journey, and they now fully understand why it was important for me to go explore into the unknown.