Andrew Escalante

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Some people are motivated by making a difference, industry disruption, or purely by money. My main motivation from day one has always been this: Pure spite. I was a loser in high school and got bad grades, I wanted to prove that I could become something. In college I gained some muscle, finally had a social life and partied a lot. Everyone thought I was a dumb meathead and would amount to nothing. After I graduated, my Mom passed after a 4 year battle with cancer. She was the last person in the world who should have gone through that. When I first started in the business, everyone looked down on me because my starting salary was just $35k. As I was becoming more successful in the business, two senior colleagues and my direct manager actively tried to drag me down since I was outshining them at such a young age. All this led me to become one of the best in my industry, billing ~$25M in PROFIT in just 10 years. And now, after getting laid off in the fall a month after my dad unexpectedly passed away, despite being the best recruiter statistically in company history, that same company tried recruiting me back. I said no. Since then, YTD I'm the #2 recruiter at my new company despite starting during the slowest period of the year and dealing with the passing of my dad and aunt. The money is great. The recognition is cool. But what motivates me is the fact that all these things absolutely pissed me off.

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To see the graciousness, the persistence even when absolutely exhausted is incredible. Mothers are our greatest treasures and I’ve been blessed to be loved by so many of them. Thank you for everything you do and I hope you all feel loved this weekend.

Wishing a very happy Mother’s Day to you all. Seeing Amanda become a mom has made me so appreciative of what women go through to bring life into this world which is just the beginning of a never ending and immensely difficult journey.

He got Seth Rollins paycut on his wrist fam

@TheMagaHulk @ValVenisEnt The more fucked up stuff I remember is when they grabbed him in the locker room and cut to black

"I choppy choppy your pee pee" is permanently burned into the memory of every guy who grew up during the Attitude Era. One of the funniest quotes in wrestling history. @ValVenisEnt is a legend!

@MikeBales 😂

Wearing Crocs is like getting a BJ from a man. It feels good until you look down and realize you are gay.

@WrestleOps @POSTwrestling It shows

TKO President Mark Shapiro stated that Nick Khan and Triple H are using AI for storylines during a Town Hall meeting this week. (via @POSTwrestling)

Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas impersonating Bray Wyatt and “Woken” Matt Hardy was pure gold. The look in Bray Wyatt’s eyes—he was so proud ❤️

Everyone talks about maxing out your salary, which isn't bad advice. But the most underrated part of your? Working for a great boss. Your direct manager can make or break you. They either help you reach your potential or cap it. I've worked for both. The best ones helped me grow and put my goals ahead of their own. The worst one I had came after our company was acquired and only cared about politics and optics, at the expense of performance. Good managers change your quality of life. I work for a couple of great ones now and my stress is a fraction of what it used to be. After I was laid off last year, I didn't take this job because it was the highest offer (it was actually the 3rd highest). I took it because my biggest mentor was here, and because I could tell the managers were just good people. In a market where everyone's trying to save their own ass, that matters more than ever.

Judgment Day is back yall! WITHOUT the trouble makers: Big head @jd_mcdonagh psycho @RaquelWWE crazy @YaOnlyLivvOnce freaky @FinnBalor ( dude has a demon livin inside of him) last but not least Tom&Nick Mysterio @DomMysterio35 is related to them both. We good ova her love😎 @ArcherOfInfamy @RheaRipley_WWE

Meta is now capturing mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes from US employees to train their AI. They named the program "Agent Transformation Accelerator." They're not even hiding the endgame anymore. Tech is a copycat league. Most companies already use some sort of monitoring software. Now the biggest name in the space just made keystroke capture acceptable cover for "AI training", something I expect more companies to adopt moving forward. Here's the part nobody wants to say out loud: you're training the thing that replaces you. Imagine logging in every day knowing the tool tracking your clicks is being built to do your job without you. But the job market is brutal and the golden handcuffs are heavy, so most people won't quit. They'll comply and hope they're not in the first wave. Short term, this exposes the slackers. The fake email jobs, the quiet quitters, the people pulling $250K to move three Slack messages a day. All about to get very visible. Long term, it exposes everyone else. Meta says the data won't be used for performance reviews. Believe that at your own risk.

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“For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life… for me, it was Tuesday.” M. Bison’s speech in Street Fighter (1994) is absurdly iconic, it somehow becomes the most memorable thing in the whole film.

A bank we work with uses an AI tool to screen every resume that comes in. Here's how it works. We send them a candidate. Their internal recruiter runs the resume through the tool. If it scores an 8/10 or higher, the candidate gets an interview. Anything below that, auto rejected. We sent them a candidate a few weeks ago for a Python Developer role. She just ended a project for us at a competing bank with excellent references. The skills they actually needed for the role? Python, FastAPI, SQL. She had all three, used daily in her last job. The tool scored her a 7.5. Rejected. We pushed back and asked why. Turns out the job description had everything and the kitchen sink listed. Fifteen skills, half of them "nice to haves" that had nothing to do with the actual work. The AI weighted all of them equally and her score got dragged down by gaps that didn't matter. We pushed back on the internal recruiter citing she had the main skills + excellent references. We got her the interview and she got the offer. This is where internal recruiting teams are headed. AI tools layered on top of ATS systems, scoring candidates before a human ever reads the resume. In theory it saves time. In practice, it rejects qualified people because nobody bothered to write a clean job description. The tool isn't the problem, the inputs are. If your JD is a wish list instead of a job description, your AI is going to reject the exact people you're trying to hire. We're early in this. The tech will get better. But right now, a lot of great candidates are getting filtered out for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they can do the job.

Raul Julia was dying of stomach cancer when he flew to Australia to play M. Bison in the 1994 Street Fighter movie. He accepted the role for one reason: his kids loved the video game and he wanted to make a film they could watch him in. He was 54. The cancer had been quietly eating him for three years. He had just wrapped The Burning Season, a performance that would posthumously win him a Golden Globe, an Emmy, and a SAG Award. Four Tony nominations on his resume. One of the great stage actors of his generation. And the man took a role as a cartoon dictator in a video game adaptation because it was the last thing he could give his children. He did his own stunts during chemotherapy. Lost visible weight on camera. Studied real-world dictators to build Bison the way he'd built Iago at the Public Theater. Never once condescended to the material. "Pax Bisonica" became a meme because a dying Puerto Rican stage actor decided to mean every syllable. October 20, 1994: stroke. October 24: gone. The film opened that Christmas, dedicated to his memory. Thirty-two years later, David Dastmalchian steps into the Bison role. Jason Momoa plays Blanka. Roman Reigns plays Akuma. Cody Rhodes plays Guile. Paramount and Legendary built this reboot on top of an IP whose only theatrical equity was established by one man who refused to phone in his final performance. The 1994 Street Fighter movie made money. Critics mauled it. What survived for 32 years is Julia's Bison. A father wanted to be in a movie his kids could watch. The whole franchise staring back at you from this trailer sits on that decision.

If you're consistently making the final round interview, chances are you are capable of doing the jobs you're applying to. At the same time, you're probably tipping off some sort of red flag or hesitation to the hiring team. Here are some of the most common pieces of feedback I get from hiring managers when rejecting a candidate: • “They Didn’t Really Answer the Question” • “They Were Fine, Just Nothing Stood Out” • “I Don’t Think They Actually Want This Job” • “Their Experience Doesn’t Match What They Told the Recruiter” • “They Talked Too Much About Their Old Company” • “They Didn’t Seem Technical Enough” (Or Strategic Enough, Or Senior Enough) Chances are you fall under one of these categories. The sooner you figure it out, the better, and you'll be on your way to land your next offer. substack.com/home/post/p-19…