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Let's read The Bible together this year Day 1 Genesis 1-2; Psalm 19 God created us for labour, leisure and love Bible In a Year

@NASA Meet the only four people on Earth who can genuinely say, "I love you to the moon and back" because they actually went and came back.🌙

@Simonloveth9 I am following you for a December update 😭😭😅😅🤩

Update: his mum’s birthday is next month… and he just sent me an invite with my Ankara 😂😂😂😂 At this point, it’s looking like this wedding might actually hold ooo 😭🤣

NASA is going to offer him a job.😅

@BiancoDavinci How do people discover they can just do things so talented!

This is a painting by the Spanish painter Sergi Cadenas. It ages from the angle you look at it.

A little silver-haired lady calls her neighbor and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started." Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?" The little silver-haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster." Her neighbor decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table. He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster." He takes her hand and says, "Secondly, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then," he said with a deep breath, "put the Corn Flakes back in the box."

The math on this heist should embarrass every ad agency on the planet. 413,793 KitKat bars. 12 tons. Stolen somewhere between an Italian factory and Poland on March 26. The truck and cargo are still missing. Nestlé's response: deploy a fake presidential motorcade through Canadian cities during Easter weekend. Black SUVs. Red flags. Security guards stationed at retail displays. A job posting requiring "experience guarding high-value assets" and "a passion for preventing break-ins." The retail value of the stolen chocolate is roughly $620K. This Dexerto post alone has 4.7M views. The TikTok of the convoy cleared 600K. CBS, Fox, and every local affiliate in North America ran the story. A candy company is getting a better ROI on a cargo theft than most brands get on their entire annual ad budget. The thieves wrote the creative brief, the logistics were a delivery truck and four rented SUVs, and the audience did the distribution for free. The stolen truck hasn't been found. It doesn't need to be. It already paid for itself 15 times over.

@helloparalegal Where you part of the meeting?

A friend of mine from Harvard Law set up his own firm last year. Solo practice. No associates. No paralegals. Working out of a co-working space with a laptop and a coffee habit. Last month a mid-size business owner reached out looking for outside counsel. Three firms were being considered. Two of them were 15-attorney shops. The kind with pitch decks, associate teams, and glass-walled conference rooms that smell like fresh carpet and overbilling. My friend was a one-person firm with a WeWork membership. He almost canceled. He thought there was no way he could compete with that. I told him to try one thing before he walked away. Open Claude Code. Give it the owner's name, the company name, and 45 minutes. Ask it to build a complete intelligence report using only publicly available data. He did not think it would work. He tried it anyway. Claude came back with a 13-page report. He read it over coffee. Took 28 minutes. By the time the Zoom started, this solo attorney knew things about the prospect's company that the owner's own in-house team probably had not assembled in one place. The company was incorporated in Delaware but registered as a foreign entity in Texas 14 months later. That is expansion. A second member was added to the LLC in 2024. Claude pulled the operating agreement implications from the state filing and flagged what a new member meant for governance, profit distribution, and decision-making authority. Three active trademark applications filed in the last six months. Two were in a product category the company had never publicly announced. Nobody on the website knew about it. The trademark filings did. PACER hit. The company had been named as a defendant in a vendor dispute 18 months ago. It settled. But the complaint was public and Claude read every page of it. The core issue was a supply agreement with no termination clause. My friend now knew this company had been burned by a bad contract. They would care deeply about airtight vendor agreements going forward. He did not have to guess. It was in the filing. State court records. The owner had a dissolved LLC from 2019 with a different partner. A business divorce. Which meant this owner would value clear partnership terms and buy-sell provisions this time around. People who have been through a bad breakup want a prenup for the next one. Same principle. Hiring activity. Four job listings posted in 60 days. Head of compliance. Operations manager. Two warehouse roles. They were scaling fast and hiring operational infrastructure. That is exactly when companies need outside counsel the most and know it the least. They think they need a lawyer when they get sued. They actually need a lawyer when they start hiring a Head of Compliance. Glassdoor. 11 reviews. Every positive one mentioned culture. Every negative one mentioned the same thing. "No HR. No handbook. No process." A company growing faster than its internal policies. An employment claim waiting to happen. And a business owner who probably had no idea what his own employees were writing about him. Google reviews. 4.3 stars. But Claude flagged a pattern in the 1-stars. Three different customers mentioned the same issue. Product delivered late with no communication. The biggest operational liability was not product quality. It was fulfillment. That is a breach of warranty problem, a customer retention problem, and a potential class issue if the pattern scales with the company. Then there was a section Claude titled "Founder Mindset." It pulled a transcript from a podcast the owner appeared on and analyzed his communication patterns. One quote stood out. He said "I have spent more on lawyers fixing problems than I ever spent on lawyers preventing them." That one sentence told my friend exactly how to position his entire practice. Not as a litigator. Not as a fixer. As the lawyer who prevents the problems in the first place. The pitch wrote itself. Claude also analyzed the owner's communication style across LinkedIn posts, podcast answers, and X replies. Based on patterns it flagged what mattered for the meeting: this person values substance over rapport. He distrusts anything that feels like a pitch. Lead with what you know. Skip the small talk. Show your work before you ask for the engagement. My friend adjusted his entire approach based on that analysis. The Zoom started. No pleasantries. No "let me tell you about my firm" warmup. The owner gave his overview. What the company does. Where they are heading. What they need. Then my friend said "I noticed you filed two trademarks in a new product category last quarter. Is that the line you are launching in Q3?" Silence. "How do you know about that?" A solo lawyer working from a coworking space just earned more credibility in one sentence than the 15-attorney firm earned in their entire pitch deck. He walked the owner through everything. The vendor dispute and what it meant for future contracts. The hiring pattern and the compliance risk it signaled. The Glassdoor reviews pointing to an HR exposure. The fulfillment complaints that were one bad quarter away from becoming a warranty liability. He did not pitch his services. He showed the owner his own blind spots using the owner's own public data. Then he said which ones he would fix first and why. The owner said "the other firms sent me a brochure. You just showed me you already understand my business better than they do." He hired my friend that week. A solo practitioner over two 15-attorney firms. No associate team. No paralegal pulling research. No marketing department. One Harvard Law grad with Claude Code, a 13-page report, and 28 minutes of preparation that the other firms did not think to do. This is what I keep telling solo lawyers and most of them do not believe me until they see it. The advantage is not firm size. It is not headcount. It is not a fancy office or a partner track or a receptionist who offers sparkling water. The advantage is showing up knowing things the prospect did not expect you to know. That is what wins the engagement. Every time. And right now it is easier than it has ever been. Because almost everything about a business is public. It is just scattered across 15 different sources that no lawyer checks before a pitch meeting. Claude checks all of them in one run and hands you a report you can read before your coffee gets cold. Secretary of State filings. Incorporation, officers, registered agents, foreign qualifications. PACER and state court dockets. Every lawsuit, motion, and settlement. USPTO. Trademark filings tell you where a company is going before they announce it. LinkedIn job postings. What a company is hiring for reveals what is broken inside. Glassdoor. What employees say when nobody from management is reading. Google reviews. The 1-star reviews are where the legal risks hide. Podcast transcripts. The founder's own words analyzed for how they think and decide. UCC filings. Who they owe money to. What assets are pledged. Property records. Leases, liens, ownership structures. Communication pattern analysis. How this specific person talks, processes information, and makes decisions. So you know exactly how to show up. All public. All free. One report. Under 30 minutes to read. The solo lawyer who builds this into their pre-meeting workflow will win clients over firms 10 times their size. Not once. Every time. Because nobody expects a solo to show up that prepared. And that gap between what they expect and what you deliver is the most valuable asset in your practice. My friend is a Harvard Law grad. He has no team. He works from a coworking space. He is winning over 15-attorney firms because he spends 45 minutes doing what they never bother to do. The playing field was never about resources. It was about preparation. And preparation just got automated.

Finally decided to try this patewo hairstyle ☺️ How did I do?

The camel drinks both fresh and salt water. It can even drink water from the Dead Sea and nothing will happen to it. This is because the camel's kidneys filter the water: they separate it from the salt and turn it into fresh water suitable for drinking. The camel also eats thorns and they do not harm its stomach or intestines because its saliva dissolves the thorns like acid. The camel has two eyelids: one is thin and transparent, the other thick and fleshy. When a sandstorm starts in the desert, it closes its transparent eyelid to prevent sand from getting into its eyes. A camel can also change its body temperature: if it is cold its temperature increases, if it is hot in the hot desert its body temperature decreases. The qualities that this beautiful little animal possesses are impressive.

Mas o que essa criança comeu pra ser tão criativa assim? 😂

I remember when my Mumsi go buy live chicken few days before Christmas, kon dey feed am make e fat well-well, gather enough flesh before dem kpai am 😭 The chicken go Dey feel at home sef🥹 With well laid bed, I even give the chicken name 😭 You Dey remind me of that chicken Aswr

@maicasyaa Almost all vegetable sellers in Nigerian markets!

Is there anyone who can beat this man's abilities?

I 3D printed my own suitcase to try and make traveling a little more tolerable.

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

@Sisi_Yemmie Only peppersoup

What soup bangs with fresh chicken ?

Shooters shoot. Don’t let anyone convince you Twitter isn’t a dating site

It’s Easter Monday and I want to speak some deeper truths. Moses went up the Mount Sinai and saw God (Exodus 33 vs 18) Thousands of years later, Elijah went up Mount Sinai and saw God. (1 Kings 19) Another Thousand years later, during the Transfiguration, Jesus went on the Mountain and saw both Moses and Elijah and discussed with them. The disciples described Jesus face as like the Sun. He looked like a God to them. (Mark 9) This means that Jesus existed outside the concept of Time and Space and was communicating with Moses and Elijah in their respective time. To Moses and Elijah, they were on the mountain speaking to God in their respective time. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Keynote from this: Moses represented the Law, Elijah represented the Prophets. Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.

The father determines the sex of the offspring because he can contribute either a X or Y chromosome (mothers always contribute X). Studies have found that men who work in high-stress environments tend to produce more X-chromosome-carrying sperm. It's believed this is an evolutionary adaptation. During prehistoric times, when a tribe was faced with hardship or disaster, it was beneficial to have more daughters since they would grow up to become mothers and ensure a stable population in the future. When it comes to reproduction, a single male could do the job of a hundred, at least in principle. So it makes the most sense to have more daughters than sons. This property carried over to modern times. High stress (as one might experience in combat or while working a physically demanding or dangerous job) triggers the hormonal changes in a man that favor daughter-producing sperm.

I was in a park and a lady loudly called out "Anyone who wants an ice cream come over here". I headed over with several others. She handed out ices to them all then asked me "Who are you?". I realised the rest were all her family. 30 years later I still cringe.