Michael Ivan Skye

A culture without the Strong God of Honor... Has no Elders. And a culture without Elders... Will surely die.

Those who pushed this evil will pay dearly

The side with the best sense of humor are the good guys. Grok ftw.

For any adult, especially anyone with a creative or entrepreneurial disposition, I want you to genuinely imagine sitting through an entire typical school day. Go put yourself in a seventh grade classroom. Follow the schedule. Change classes when the bell rings. Ask permission to use the bathroom. Sit still and face forward. I promise you will suffer. It will be genuinely painful. The boredom will feel like physical constraint. That's what we're doing to children who have the same kind of minds you have. We're systematically destroying the people whose ways of thinking the world needs most.

When I see kids in juvenile court or hanging out on street corners getting into trouble, I think about what their lives would have looked like in a traditional tribe. The strong, aggressive young man would have been celebrated. He would have been the pride of his community. The elders would have channeled his energy into hunting or defense or exploration. We took those same boys and told them to sit still and be quiet for thirteen years. No outlet for their energy. No meaningful challenges. No way to earn status. Then we act shocked when they find other outlets. They're doing exactly what evolution designed them to do in a context that makes no sense.

Many of the entrepreneurial tech elite are no longer putting their children in traditional schools. In Austin, it is a full-on movement. These parents are not doing this because they are reckless. They are doing it because they understand something that most people miss. In each case where I have seen a young person develop real-world success by their mid-teens, ninety to ninety-nine percent of it is attributable to immersion in the parent's business life rather than to anything learned in school. Here is what this looks like in practice. Emilio Tucker's dad buys and sells real estate. As a twelve-year-old, Emilio was given the task of vetting tax-delinquent properties based on a set of criteria. Once he mastered the criteria, he hired and managed a team of virtual assistants to find more properties. As AI agents improved, by the time he was thirteen he had let go of the virtual assistants and was vetting properties using an AI bot that he had developed. He is racing through high school geometry in three months through Math Academy. But mostly he works with his dad and receives performance-based compensation already in the six figures. He is legitimately leading his branch of the family business at fourteen. My brother Danny buys, remodels, and sells real estate. His children were homeschooled, but their "academics" were trivial exercises done to placate the state. Meanwhile his children were involved in all aspects of the family business from a young age. For high school graduation, he gave each of them the capital to buy an initial house to flip. My niece Emma, now in her early twenties, has remodeled and flipped three houses already, making money on each one. This way of making a living has become second nature to her. This is not a new idea. This is the oldest form of education that exists. Human beings evolved in small communities where children were fully integrated into daily adult life. They could see firsthand most adult activities. They heard about the rest through gossip, conversations, and stories. By the time they were young teenagers, they were taking on real responsibilities. The practical recommendations are straightforward. Beyond developing core academic skills outside of school, immerse your children in your business activities from a young age. The overall vibe should always tend towards "I get to observe the cool adult thing" and not "I'm a burden" or "I shouldn't be here." Consider gathering around the campfire in the evening to read books together, watch documentaries, or talk about meaningful events in the history of your family or your business. Your children are more likely to care about and remember sacred family traditions, including meaningful conversations with their parents, than anything taught in school.

@Man_s_Bible Those are quests???

You’re bored because you don’t do side quests, bro. Life is more than just work and bed rotting. Here are 50 side quests to complete:

You'll miss the American, who deals sharply but cheats no one, who is tougher than the thugs and cleverer than the tricksters, who says "I can do it" when others shrug, and who respects learning but is suspicious of those claiming to be learned, when the last one dies.

Israel is a small, vulnerable nation with one foot in the West, and one foot in the ancient world, where lineages destroy each other with the blessing of their gods. Netanyahu is dragging Israel and the West back into the Old Testament, and jeopardizing the world in the process. He is also creating the exact conditions in which antisemitism overwhelms the better angles of our nature and genocidal outrage against Jews spreads like wildfire.

Dad didn’t move 🥺😔 Many of you will have to be the fathers you never had.

Ladies, this is why you need a toxically masculine man…to rescue you when your vegan, beta boy, runs away.

I left Harvard for St. John's because I was bored being lectured at. At St. John's, all classes are taught Socratically. Tutors ask questions. The math Ph.D. teaches Greek, the music Ph.D. teaches physics. I found myself helping a French Ph.D. figure out the math in physics class. Classes became learning clubs: "Hey, let's figure this thing out together!" We put our minds together without an expert present. I can read ten times faster than I can listen, so why listen to a professor when you can read and discuss instead? I left feeling empowered as a learner. I entered graduate school with no background in economics and persuaded a future Nobel laureate to be my dissertation advisor. I led a graduate biochemistry seminar with no background in biochemistry. We can just learn things. The critical factor is social norms around respectful dialogue. It fails when people sneer, dominate, or talk past each other. That's why I use a Socratic Seminar rubric to build these norms. Edtech and AI have made content transmission free. My focus is and has always been facilitating learning communities with the right norms.

“Babe, please keep it light at Thanksgiving.” “Of course. Just gonna chill.” Me after 3 drinks:

@mil60170 @MZHemingway Niger is a diff country from Nigeria

@MZHemingway Guys, I’m starting to think Nigeria isn’t our ally.

Ok so what are the most surprising accounts that turn out to be foreign?

Paramedic info: I was working a hospital contract during the heart of COVID. The rules were brutal, just one visitor per patient in the ER, no exceptions. One night a dad showed up, begging to get in to see his dying son. The nurse at the front told him to wait. He pleaded. She got firm. She told him to sit down. His son was literally breathing his last breath just yards away. He lost it. His grief turned to rage, and security dragged him out before he ever got to say goodbye. That moment has never left me. Him screaming. Seeing his son dying. The system said it was about safety. But safety without compassion isn’t safety at all, it’s cruelty pretending to be policy. I still wonder how many parents never got to say goodbye, how many souls died without the touch of those who loved them most. That Dads tears. The security “doing their job.” The nurse pretending she was righteous… it is a tough memory. God bless

Sounds true...

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The courage to stand and speak the truth in the face of anything and everything... this is a way of honor.

The Way of Honor... Is Deep In Christianity.

"I forgive him." Erika Kirk says she forgives the man suspected of killing her husband: "I forgive him because it was what Christ did. And is what Charlie would do."