Rant While Driving To Work

Not paying for hosting anymore. My time as a podcaster is officially over. I will still X here

Would you rather spend $200 billion to bomb Iran or…? A: give every teacher in America a $62,500 bonus B: provide downpayment assistance for 20 million young families C: build 1,300 rural hospitals

How not to answer the question while answering.

@CelebrityPool @Variety Sad day

Chuck Norris, Action Icon and ‘Walker Texas Ranger’ Star, Dies at 86 No picks! RIP 🪦 variety.com/2026/film/news… via @variety

I'm looking for Highly talented, qualified music acts that have catalogs of content to be featured on my decentralised radio, drop links below, if you drop trash you're blocked!!!

@rubenhassid gave you tried skyworks? I liked it. But thinking of dropping it for Claude.

What a stupid AI slop article. apple.news/A9jgEOLPtQae6a… My state. I know zero people who go to this fast food place. Stupid in all regards. @Allrecipes you failed your purpose in life

@Mishi_2210 1050 I accept all forms of payment

Answer is not "300" Tell me the answer and win $1000

@gothburz Did you pay out old accrued PTO? Or did employees hold their old PTO. Use it up then unlimited

Last year I eliminated our PTO policy. I called it "unlimited." The board loved it. HR loved it. Finance really loved it. Let me explain why Finance loved it. Under the old policy, employees accrued 18 days per year. Unused days carried over. When employees quit, we owed them money. Cash. For days they earned but didn't take. That's a liability. On the books. $4.7 million in accrued PTO across 2,300 employees. I made it disappear. With one policy change. "Unlimited PTO." You can't accrue what's infinite. You can't owe what was never counted. The liability vanished. $4.7 million. Gone. The CFO sent me a bottle of wine. I told employees it was about "trust and flexibility." It was about the balance sheet. But "balance sheet optimization" doesn't fit on a careers page. "Unlimited PTO" does. We updated the job postings. Applications increased 23%. People love unlimited. Until they try to use it. Under the old policy, employees took an average of 17 days per year. Under unlimited, they take 11. That's not a bug. That's the design. When PTO is a number, people take the number. It's theirs. They earned it. Managers can't argue with a number. When PTO is "unlimited," people take nothing. Because unlimited comes with questions. "Is this a good time?" "Who's covering?" "What will people think?" The guilt does the enforcement. I don't have to say no. The culture says no. I just built the culture. We track time-off requests in Workday. I see everything. A senior engineer requested two weeks in July. His manager approved it. Officially. Then sent a Slack message. "Totally fine. Just wanted to flag that the Erikson deliverable overlaps. Probably fine. Just flagging." The engineer took four days. Unlimited means whatever your anxiety allows. For most people, that's less than before. Some employees don't take any PTO. We call them "high performers." They get promoted. Then they manage others. They don't approve much PTO either. The system self-replicates. A recruiter asked how we "stay competitive." I said, "Unlimited PTO." She asked how much people actually take. I said, "That's not tracked." It is tracked. I have a dashboard. I don't share the dashboard. We did an employee survey. 84% said they "appreciated the flexibility of unlimited PTO." 12% said they "wished they felt more comfortable taking time off." We published the 84%. The 12% went in a folder. The folder is called "Noted." I don't open that folder. Someone in engineering asked if we could go back to accrued PTO. I said, "That would limit your flexibility." He said he wanted limits. I said, "That's not aligned with our culture of trust." He stopped asking. Trust is a funny word. I trust employees to feel too guilty to use their benefits. They trust me to frame that guilt as freedom. That's the deal. I'm presenting at an HR conference next month. The session is called "Unlimited PTO: Building a Culture of Ownership." Ownership means employees own their guilt. I own the savings. The policy costs us nothing. Because employees take nothing. And call it a benefit. I'll be VP of People by Q2. Unlimited upside.

Idiot. It’s Arabic. Read a book or something

Most confusing money in the world 🇰🇼

@PaddyG96 Don’t get terminated

If you’re a creator with over 100k subscribers, don’t scroll by this, drop one piece of advice for those wanting to start a YouTube channel in 2026. Go 👇

@CelebrityPool Yeah I really should

@rantwhile Are you playing this year?

I always share my Death Pool picks for the new year in the spirit of full disclosure, so here they are… How do you think I did?

@CelebrityPool Van Der Beak and Jeremy picks seem good imo

@rantwhile I took a year off…he was my spite pick in ‘24. But he’s back on the list! Rehab won’t stick.

@NickDiFabio1 Yeah it’s just something that I can’t afford right now. Just posting and praying. Knowing that anything I get is bonus. It’s not a smart model. But you work with what you got

Publishing is a real business. And like any business, you need a way to get the word about your product. In this case, ads are a tool to do that. In fact, ads are a big reason why many people can stay anonymous and publish under pen names / brand pen names. Ads also drive organic sales. It's a beautiful flywheel once you solve for how to run ads profitably and sustainably.

@NomDGames Great game. I don’t know why I never finished it. In act 3 just roaming around

Just so we are clear I’m okay with giving Clair Obscur Expedition 33 every Grammy and Oscar as well as NFL MVP and the Nobel Peace Prize.

@NickDiFabio1 I think I pulled in $0.49 from my book last month. Zero ads

Anyone can publish a children’s book on Amazon & make $2000+/month from it. The best part? With AI, you can create the books without any artistic skills. Here's exactly how to do it (step-by-step):

@saimagnate @grundstromleo I think my down fall was poor editing

@grundstromleo this is all you need

the $10K/month youtube starter kit: 1. Claude – longer scripts 2. ChatGPT – ideation 3. ElevenLabs – cheap voice overs 4. Pixabay – free stock footage / images / SFX 5. CapCut – best free editing app 6. NexLev – niche research 7. kloudboard – efficient team management done

@LakeShowYo Dude needs to be assigned to Europe

Bronny James has been assigned to the South Bay Lakers

Come play with us in 2026!