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In 1910, body odor was considered "healthy". Then a teenager found her father's liquid used for surgeries... And launched a DEVASTATING marketing campaign that turned nature into shame. Society has never recovered. Here's the sinister secret behind deodorant🧵

The health industry's biggest fraud: Ozempic. 2.4 BILLION views on TikTok has caused a medical emergency that's hurting the poorest. The sinister truth they're not telling you about America's most viral drug:

This man just dropped an instant classic JRE episode. He exposed a SINISTER Epstein theory that spans: • Victoria's Secret • US, UK, Israel intelligence • Coordinated politician blackmail Let me save you 3 hours. Ian Carroll's Epstein conspiracy will leave you speechless🧵

When I returned to @Nextdoor as CEO, I wanted to learn from founders who'd made successful comebacks. Steve Jobs departed Apple in 1985, then returned in 1997 to transform it. Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, and Larry Page did the same. I was seeking inspiration for my first shareholder letter as a public CEO (Nextdoor had IPO'd in my time away), and found a few powerful references to a book I'd never seen— "The Founder's Mentality". So I checked it out—and suddenly, all the thoughts in my head about coming back to Nextdoor had a clear, powerful framework. It has since become our company's north star. The book poses a simple and straightforward business question: Why do returning founders often succeed where others (e.g. external CEOs) stumble? The answer lies in this paradox: The scrappy, obsessive hustle that launches startups slowly gets buried under layers of process. And this is where most companies go wrong––they think scale means sacrificing that founding spirit. But that couldn't be further from the truth. The bigger you get, the more you need that obsession with details, that missionary zeal, that drive to make things work. At Nextdoor we’re infusing this mindset across the entire organization through the three timeless principles from the book: 1. An Insurgent Mission Define your reason for existing, the higher purpose, the WHY. Every great company starts with a mission to change something in the world. At Nextdoor, we’re enabling the real-life connections that unlock the full promise of the neighborhood. 2. Frontline Obsession Stay close to your customers. This is where the most powerful insights emerge. Obsession with user experience is always what separates good companies from great ones. Your competitive advantage is listening closely to those you serve. 3. Owner's Mindset Work harder, save more, and treat every decision as if the company is your own. This isn’t about job titles. It’s about treating the company’s success as your personal responsibility. When we all act like owners, we win together. These principles are obvious in startups, enabling growth—but they often fade as companies grow. They slowly get eaten away by complexity, bureaucracy, and scale. When founders return to companies many years after that creation phase, the company isn’t the same, and neither are they. So they can’t simply revert to the old way of doing things. But they can—and must—remember and reincorporate the aspects that made the company special on Day 1. At Nextdoor, we’re not trying to simply recreate those early days around our founding in 2010. We’re taking what worked then (a singular focus on real-life community building) and evolving it for 2025. In every decision we make, we keep one eye on our Insurgent Mission: to build a platform that unlocks the full promise of the neighborhood. That’s where the Founder’s Mentality comes in—it’s the difference between a quick win and building something that lasts. The Founder's Mentality isn't just for CEOs or founders. Anyone can adopt it to make an impact, no matter your title. It's as simple as taking ownership, staying connected to the people you serve, and working towards a mission bigger than yourself. If you'd like to hear more about how we're embracing the Founder's Mentality at Nextdoor, please check out my latest article: tinyurl.com/fmnxtdr

From bathroom TikToks to building an empire: This 16-year-old went viral, got hate, then got rich. But her next move shocked everyone. Here's how she's creating the next generation of female founders:

In 1994, Jeff Bezos saw the internet growing 2,300% per year. He had an idea—sell books online. But it meant walking away from millions in guaranteed bonuses. He spent months pondering the impossible decision... Here's the framework he used to to make it painfully simple: 🧵

"I went to traditional school and I turned out fine" might be the most dangerous phrase in education today. Let me tell you why. "Fine" is the soggy sandwich you regret ordering. "Fine" is the lukewarm compliment that sends you racing back to your closet to change. "Fine" is mediocre pasta you'll never order again. In every other area of life, "fine" is a letdown. So why have we made it our benchmark for education? You spent over 15,000 hours in classrooms. Years of your life. Should the result of all that time really just be... fine? Shouldn't it be exceptional? Transformative? Extraordinary? We defend flawed systems because we grew up inside them. Cognitive scientist Dan Lortie calls this the "apprenticeship of observation." Those thousands of hours spent in classrooms taught us more than algebra or grammar—they taught us what education itself is supposed to look like. Desks in rows. Homework every night. Pop quizzes. It's familiar. And familiar feels safe. But familiar doesn't mean effective. School isn't just a system; it's a cultural mythology reinforced by movies and nostalgia. I can still smell my childhood hallways—lemon-scented cleaner mixed with sweaty gym shoes. I can feel the carved initials under my desk: TYLER WAS HERE. These powerful memories aren't proof of successful education. They're emotional anchors that keep us tethered to the past. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman calls this "status quo bias"—the tendency to believe what's familiar is safer, even when it's not. This creates a dangerous cycle: • Traditional schools are assumed better because they're widely used • They're widely used because they're assumed better • Alternative methods are labeled "experimental" despite proven results The irony? The system that feels safest may actually be the most dangerous. Factory-style education doesn't adapt. It doesn't innovate. It simply persists—and stagnates. While the world around us transforms rapidly, our educational approach remains largely unchanged. This guarantees our kids will fall behind. At schools using alternative models like the two-hour learning approach, we're proving there are countless mechanisms to educational success beyond homework, standardized testing, and rigid schedules. The results? • Students learn twice as fast • Higher engagement and genuine love of learning • Focus on both academics AND life skills • No homework—they apply concepts in real-time, making knowledge stick better than any worksheet ever could This isn't a call to despair. It's a call to action. It's time to get curious about what education looks like from the mountaintop rather than the valley we've settled for. Let's challenge assumptions. Let's climb the mountain instead of settling for the plateau. Because our kids deserve more than to say, "I turned out fine." Let's help them say: "I turned out extraordinary."

These teachers are saving 20 hours of work EVERY week. They're also giving each student personal tutoring. And it just takes $15. With 266 school districts acting as the guinea pigs, This technology is giving teachers superpowers to save the education system:

After 10 years in crypto, starting as a Bitcoin maxi, I've ended up loving the use case, technology and the mass adoption of stablecoins. An 80/20 mix of stables earning yields of 10%+ with Bitcoin creates the next generation of wealth management. Super excited to announce the launch of Brava into production. We've created an easier way for people to manage their stabelcoins and wealth in general. We're rolling out to our waiting list in waves, for more info check out Brava.

Companies are failing at AI adoption... It's not the models. It's not the tools. It's not even the upskilling. The problem? Most people are focused on quick fixes, treating AI as just a new productivity tool, when they should be reimagining how their entire team works together. Despite 92% of Fortune 500 companies using AI... there's a less than 1% improvement in holistic company productivity. Something has to change. I'm Jonathan, founder of @DeepFlowAI: • I'm obsessed with how people learn and apply skills. Having done much of school 5 years early, I dropped out of uni to scale my first proper business. I struggled, persisted, and enjoyed it... a lot. • My number 1 realisation? Doing is the only thing that matters. External badges (degrees) mean nothing. Action is truth. Real skills come from hardship, from experience. • I started an EdTech company focused on this problem - upskilling graduates through real-world simulations and practical learning that mirrored the realities of work, not lectures. • Then March 2023 happened. Everything changed. OpenAI launched GPT-4. My business was under threat. It could have continued... for a while. But it was obvious what came next. Machines will only get better. Models will be doing parts of our jobs. • The $1-trillion-dollar problem? Defining when, why, and how to delegate slices of work to someone skilled in your team... or to an emerging array of leading models, agents, and multi-agent flows. • I'm now building DeepFlow to solve this problem with my Co-Founder @latticecut (who sold his previous AI company for $100M). We're taking proprietary rostering systems that manage 25,000 staff across the world... and applying them to humans x agents. Gifting fast-growing teams superpowers. • We're here to solve the proper systems problem - making AI really work for teams and companies. Our goal? To enable any team to multiply their abilities beyond their current headcount. It's game time. What's the big secret OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic don't want you to know? AI is broken. It's stuck at the individual task level. One person using ChatGPT. Another using Claude. Someone else juggling 17 different AI tools. The only winners? Those selling models. But real transformation happens when teams work together seamlessly with AI. Real change centres people as part of the solution, not something to be replaced. DeepFlow acts on behalf of teams, not the model providers. DeepFlow makes you twice as fast by connecting human and AI workflow. I've decided it's time to share more publicly. Here's what you can expect from my posts: • How to build truly AI-native teams (not just AI-powered individuals) • Future predictions about how AI will reshape work and society • Frameworks for scaling AI across entire organizations • Clear cut insights about what's working (and what isn't) in AI adoption Follow along to help define what this new world will look like, the future of human x ai teams.

What do you do when your hardest work isn’t reflected in the numbers? Over the past year, our team at Nextdoor has poured tremendous energy into reinventing our product while simultaneously raising our level of execution. In Q4, we achieved some of our strongest results since becoming a public company—yet our stock dropped nearly 30% right after earnings. Understandably, many have asked: “Why the disconnect?” A company's stock price on any given day is not always a great indicator of future promise. Shareholders sometimes focus on short-term optimizations, but at Nextdoor, we’re taking a longer view—building for the neighborhood needs of 2025 and beyond. When you’re rebuilding a platform from the ground up, you sometimes need to slow down to speed up. It’s the difference between the voting machine dynamics we see today and the weighing machine that ultimately determines long-term success, as Warren Buffett famously noted. These past days have been humbling, but we’re reminded that today’s stock price seldom mirrors the future we’re building. As @JeffBezos once said, “Innovation requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.” Often, the most transformative ideas only get recognized in hindsight. Jeff underscored this in Amazon’s 1997 letter to shareholders. He explained how, despite an over 80% drop in share price in a single year, Amazon was serving 1.5 million customers and growing revenue by 838%. Before Nextdoor was public, our valuation was measured periodically during fundraising rounds. Now, it’s visible in real time—every single day—which can overshadow the actual progress underway. On the outside, stock prices can seem like a pure numbers game; but under the hood, events like these can unsettle even the most dedicated team. We’re returning to the foundational mission that made Nextdoor special from the start—connecting neighbors and unlocking the full promise of every neighborhood. If there’s one thing Silicon Valley has taught us, it’s that you have to get the inputs right first, and the outputs will follow. Keep building. The scoreboard will catch up. Have you ever worked on something that wasn’t immediately recognized, but later proved its worth?

We're watching a healthcare disaster unfold before our eyes. It will cost more than China's economy. More than America's economy. Actually, more than both combined...$47 TRILLION by 2030. Here's why the aging crisis will push healthcare to its breaking point:

It's the most overlooked skill in the modern job market. It outperforms resumes, years of experience, and even MBAs—yet it’s 100% free. Master this and landing a job becomes 10x easier. Here's everything you need to know:

In 2010, Old Spice was losing to Axe. Their sales were plummeting & everyone considered them an 'old person' brand. Until they broke every marketing rule in existence with ONE insane move... Here's why it doubled their sales in 12 months:

Google is dying. Companies are seeing an 800% increase in traffic from AI search tools... Which means your next customer will come from ChatGPT — not Google. Forget SEO. Here's why "LLM Engine Optimization" will blow up your business instead🧵

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

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There is truth in wine and children.