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A 33-year-old cardiologist named Robert Atkins was overweight and couldn't lose the weight. Nothing was working. Then he found a 1958 paper by Alfred Pennington — a DuPont company doctor who'd put the company's executives on unlimited meat and fat, zero carbs, and watched them lose weight without ever...

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James Lucas

54,237 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

In 1987 Nike had $600 million in revenue. Phil Knight was stuck. The company was losing ground to Reebok, burning cash, and nobody inside could agree on what to do next. He brought in Les Brown to speak to his executive team. Brown was found abandoned in Miami at 6 weeks old. Labeled mentally retarded at age 9. Failed fifth grade twice. Had no degree, no connections, no money. By 1987 he was the highest-paid motivational speaker in America. Marriott paid him. McDonald's paid him. General Electric paid him. Fortune 500 companies flew him in because one session with Les Brown changed how their people think. Nike's revenue crossed $1 billion two years later. Brown built all of it on one thing he learned by losing everything. He made a promise to his adopted mother to buy her a house. Worked years to get the down payment. Found a home on the water in Miami. Signed without a title search. A registered letter arrived weeks later. A $12,000 lien against the property. The previous owner's debt. 30 days to pay or lose the house. He lost the house. Lost 23 pounds in the process. Packed his mother back into the old neighborhood while the same neighbors who watched them leave watched them return. He stood in the driveway unloading furniture with his head down crying. His mother said hold your head up. You have nothing to be ashamed of. For weeks he couldn't move. Couldn't think. Couldn't plan. He said the mind works like a gas pump. You cannot start pumping until the previous bill clears. Anger doesn't clear. Humiliation doesn't clear. They sit on the lever and nothing moves. He told the story of a man everyone in Columbus called Chicken Man. Woke up at 3am to a house on fire. Got out the window. Heard his wife and children screaming. Ran back. The flames were too hot. He could not get in. The screaming stopped. His brother-in-law arrived and started hitting him. Calling him a coward over and over. When people pulled him off they asked if he was all right. Chicken Man looked at them and started making the sounds of a chicken. He never spoke again. Drove around the city for the rest of his life with a toy chicken on his car and a photo of his wife in a baby carriage. Brown said most people walking around are carrying something exactly like that. An event from years ago still running their entire life. 80% of the people you tell your story to don't care. The other 20% are glad it happened to you and not them. The question is never what happened. The question is what are you going to do about it. The lecture is free on YouTube. Just over an hour. Almost nobody has watched it as a precise diagnosis of why capable people stay exactly where they are.
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In 1987 Nike had $600 million in revenue. Phil Knight was stuck. The company was losing ground to Reebok, burning cash, and nobody inside could agree on what to do next. He brought in Les Brown to speak to his executive team. Brown was found abandoned in Miami at 6 weeks old. Labeled mentally retarded at age 9. Failed fifth grade twice. Had no degree, no connections, no money. By 1987 he was the highest-paid motivational speaker in America. Marriott paid him. McDonald's paid him. General Electric paid him. Fortune 500 companies flew him in because one session with Les Brown changed how their people think. Nike's revenue crossed $1 billion two years later. Brown built all of it on one thing he learned by losing everything. He made a promise to his adopted mother to buy her a house. Worked years to get the down payment. Found a home on the water in Miami. Signed without a title search. A registered letter arrived weeks later. A $12,000 lien against the property. The previous owner's debt. 30 days to pay or lose the house. He lost the house. Lost 23 pounds in the process. Packed his mother back into the old neighborhood while the same neighbors who watched them leave watched them return. He stood in the driveway unloading furniture with his head down crying. His mother said hold your head up. You have nothing to be ashamed of. For weeks he couldn't move. Couldn't think. Couldn't plan. He said the mind works like a gas pump. You cannot start pumping until the previous bill clears. Anger doesn't clear. Humiliation doesn't clear. They sit on the lever and nothing moves. He told the story of a man everyone in Columbus called Chicken Man. Woke up at 3am to a house on fire. Got out the window. Heard his wife and children screaming. Ran back. The flames were too hot. He could not get in. The screaming stopped. His brother-in-law arrived and started hitting him. Calling him a coward over and over. When people pulled him off they asked if he was all right. Chicken Man looked at them and started making the sounds of a chicken. He never spoke again. Drove around the city for the rest of his life with a toy chicken on his car and a photo of his wife in a baby carriage. Brown said most people walking around are carrying something exactly like that. An event from years ago still running their entire life. 80% of the people you tell your story to don't care. The other 20% are glad it happened to you and not them. The question is never what happened. The question is what are you going to do about it. The lecture is free on YouTube. Just over an hour. Almost nobody has watched it as a precise diagnosis of why capable people stay exactly where they are.

Potato

469,715 просмотров • 25 дней назад

Nick Jones enlisted in the Marine Corps at 18 out of Olathe, Kansas. Mortarman, then scout sniper platoon, then selection and 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, where he came up through element member to element leader. Twelve years, five deployments. On March 8, 2020, his team went into the Qarachogh Mountains in northern Iraq to clear a cave complex and lost their team leader and their team chief. He was shot going back for them and kept fighting until he was pulled off the mountain. Six surgeries and eighteen months later he medically retired as a staff sergeant with a Navy Cross and a Purple Heart. He now runs the Talons Reach Foundation. In 2019 he built a mountain warfare training package for his team in Montana. It got denied. The reason given was that they wouldn't be fighting in the mountains. Ten months later they were. He proposed on top of Lone Peak and told his wife they'd build a family in Montana in ten years. They got there in one. Five years later she broke down on the drive back from Jackson and told him she had no life there. That conversation moved everybody to Wyoming. Talons Reach Foundation:
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Nick Jones enlisted in the Marine Corps at 18 out of Olathe, Kansas. Mortarman, then scout sniper platoon, then selection and 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, where he came up through element member to element leader. Twelve years, five deployments. On March 8, 2020, his team went into the Qarachogh Mountains in northern Iraq to clear a cave complex and lost their team leader and their team chief. He was shot going back for them and kept fighting until he was pulled off the mountain. Six surgeries and eighteen months later he medically retired as a staff sergeant with a Navy Cross and a Purple Heart. He now runs the Talons Reach Foundation. In 2019 he built a mountain warfare training package for his team in Montana. It got denied. The reason given was that they wouldn't be fighting in the mountains. Ten months later they were. He proposed on top of Lone Peak and told his wife they'd build a family in Montana in ten years. They got there in one. Five years later she broke down on the drive back from Jackson and told him she had no life there. That conversation moved everybody to Wyoming. Talons Reach Foundation:

Andy Stumpf

11,843 просмотров • 15 дней назад

A man kept his seed phrase off the internet to stay safe. The police put it on the internet for him. > His name was never released. > He wrote his seed phrase by hand and kept it in his car. > Nevada police pulled him over and searched the vehicle. > An officer unfolded the paper and held it directly in front of the bodycam. > Every word clearly visible and fully recorded. > The footage was released publicly as part of standard bodycam disclosure. > Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp found it and posted it online. > It went viral within hours. > Anyone who watched the video had full access to his wallet. > The wallet was reportedly drained shortly after the footage spread. > The amount claimed to have been lost was $1.1 million. > No official report was ever filed. No name was ever released. He did everything right. Kept it offline. Kept it physical. The one thing he never planned for was a police officer pointing a camera at it.
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A man kept his seed phrase off the internet to stay safe. The police put it on the internet for him. > His name was never released. > He wrote his seed phrase by hand and kept it in his car. > Nevada police pulled him over and searched the vehicle. > An officer unfolded the paper and held it directly in front of the bodycam. > Every word clearly visible and fully recorded. > The footage was released publicly as part of standard bodycam disclosure. > Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp found it and posted it online. > It went viral within hours. > Anyone who watched the video had full access to his wallet. > The wallet was reportedly drained shortly after the footage spread. > The amount claimed to have been lost was $1.1 million. > No official report was ever filed. No name was ever released. He did everything right. Kept it offline. Kept it physical. The one thing he never planned for was a police officer pointing a camera at it.

Jeremy

301,528 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

BULLY BOYS IN BLACK SUITS Chris Dawson ran a thriving Post Office branch in Pitlochry, Perthshire, plus a smaller one in Kinloch Rannoch and an attached toy and gift shop. Then in 2010 an auditor turned up, the Horizon system flagged a £17,500 shortfall, and his life ended that day even though nobody told him yet. Two men in black suits interrogated him in his own home while his wife and kids sat upstairs. He called them bully boys. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry heard how there was an automatic presumption of guilt before a single fact was checked. He was offered a deal. Plead guilty to theft and they would drop the fraud charge. He said no, because he had not stolen anything, because nobody had. He was suspended for six months on no pay. Within months the mortgage was gone. Within months the marriage was gone too. He said he does not believe any marriage could survive that kind of pressure, and he is right, because marriages are not built to survive being audited by a computer glitch. He was never prosecuted. That is meant to sound like good news. It is not. He still lost the business, the home, the car, and was declared bankrupt. Pitlochry is a small cash handling town and everyone knew he was under suspicion. He said it made him unemployable. Nobody hires the guy the town thinks robbed the Post Office, even when the Post Office quietly knew the £17,500 was never actually missing. He ended up washing dishes to survive. He battled depression through what he calls 14 years of hell on earth. He rebuilt his life from nothing, working as a carer for vulnerable elderly people, the very people who never got the memo that dignity is optional once an algorithm decides you are a thief. In 2022 he gave evidence in Glasgow and wept in front of the inquiry. He asked to see former chief executive Paula Vennells and other senior officials face the full weight of the law, the same weight that was so eagerly dropped on him for a crime that never happened. He was 48 years old when he said it. He should never have had to. Another subpostmaster, another stolen decade, another institution that never once said sorry until a TV drama forced the country to look. SOURCES BBC Scotland News STV News The Courier Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry
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BULLY BOYS IN BLACK SUITS Chris Dawson ran a thriving Post Office branch in Pitlochry, Perthshire, plus a smaller one in Kinloch Rannoch and an attached toy and gift shop. Then in 2010 an auditor turned up, the Horizon system flagged a £17,500 shortfall, and his life ended that day even though nobody told him yet. Two men in black suits interrogated him in his own home while his wife and kids sat upstairs. He called them bully boys. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry heard how there was an automatic presumption of guilt before a single fact was checked. He was offered a deal. Plead guilty to theft and they would drop the fraud charge. He said no, because he had not stolen anything, because nobody had. He was suspended for six months on no pay. Within months the mortgage was gone. Within months the marriage was gone too. He said he does not believe any marriage could survive that kind of pressure, and he is right, because marriages are not built to survive being audited by a computer glitch. He was never prosecuted. That is meant to sound like good news. It is not. He still lost the business, the home, the car, and was declared bankrupt. Pitlochry is a small cash handling town and everyone knew he was under suspicion. He said it made him unemployable. Nobody hires the guy the town thinks robbed the Post Office, even when the Post Office quietly knew the £17,500 was never actually missing. He ended up washing dishes to survive. He battled depression through what he calls 14 years of hell on earth. He rebuilt his life from nothing, working as a carer for vulnerable elderly people, the very people who never got the memo that dignity is optional once an algorithm decides you are a thief. In 2022 he gave evidence in Glasgow and wept in front of the inquiry. He asked to see former chief executive Paula Vennells and other senior officials face the full weight of the law, the same weight that was so eagerly dropped on him for a crime that never happened. He was 48 years old when he said it. He should never have had to. Another subpostmaster, another stolen decade, another institution that never once said sorry until a TV drama forced the country to look. SOURCES BBC Scotland News STV News The Courier Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry

Artur Nadolny

30,635 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

💔 In 2003, Stan Beaton tragically lost his wife, Ruby, to cancer. In the following years he found comfort in listening to her recorded voicemail, just so he could hear her voice. He listened to it for over 11 years to perk himself up. Then, one day, the message was suddenly deleted after a system update. Stan was distraught. Desperate, he contacted the phone company, Virgin Media, who swiftly responded and put 10 engineers on the case. After 3 days, the engineers successfully recovered the voicemail. Here’s the moment the recovered voicemail was played back to Stan.
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💔 In 2003, Stan Beaton tragically lost his wife, Ruby, to cancer. In the following years he found comfort in listening to her recorded voicemail, just so he could hear her voice. He listened to it for over 11 years to perk himself up. Then, one day, the message was suddenly deleted after a system update. Stan was distraught. Desperate, he contacted the phone company, Virgin Media, who swiftly responded and put 10 engineers on the case. After 3 days, the engineers successfully recovered the voicemail. Here’s the moment the recovered voicemail was played back to Stan.

WTF

599,120 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

The best hire I ever made was a 12 year old kid from LA. His name is Eric Pham. He was making Fortnite montages in his bedroom. There was something special about him… the way he commanded the room and talked to a to camera was, different. He was funny. He was charismatic. He wasn't afraid to be himself. He just had “it”. Most people would've scrolled right past him. In 2019 I met Pham, quickly saw the potential he had and wanted to help. I then picked him up to my gaming startup Devour. A two years later he was at 100K subs. Now, he has hundreds of millions of views to his name. He's gone on to build massive channels outside of gaming, and is now the CMO of one of the fastest growing companies in creator tech (Viewmax with NotLuc). Everyone waits for the numbers to tell them someone's talented. By then it's too late. The best talent doesn't look like talent yet. It looks like a chubby kid in his bedroom with a ring light and 926 subscribers.
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The best hire I ever made was a 12 year old kid from LA. His name is Eric Pham. He was making Fortnite montages in his bedroom. There was something special about him… the way he commanded the room and talked to a to camera was, different. He was funny. He was charismatic. He wasn't afraid to be himself. He just had “it”. Most people would've scrolled right past him. In 2019 I met Pham, quickly saw the potential he had and wanted to help. I then picked him up to my gaming startup Devour. A two years later he was at 100K subs. Now, he has hundreds of millions of views to his name. He's gone on to build massive channels outside of gaming, and is now the CMO of one of the fastest growing companies in creator tech (Viewmax with NotLuc). Everyone waits for the numbers to tell them someone's talented. By then it's too late. The best talent doesn't look like talent yet. It looks like a chubby kid in his bedroom with a ring light and 926 subscribers.

Mitchell

24,226 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад