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Hello Kigalians! Introducing the Vertical Hydroponic Kitchen Farm, a space saving, sustainable way to grow fresh fruits & veggies at home! Enjoy beauty, nutrition, and convenience in one smart solution. 📞4127 #UrbanFarming #Hydroponics #Rwanda 🍎🥦🌿🥬🍓

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#LongRead #HomeCooking #GrowYourOwnFood #atmarnirbharbharat Why are we being sold the strange idea that a modern India doesn’t need kitchens, and that we should be like Singapore, where food is outsourced, and homes are just sleeping pods? What a terrible loss that would be! A kitchen is where health begins, where families gather, where food is not just fuel but memory, love, and connection. There is something deeply satisfying about the sound of a knife slicing through a crisp, fresh vegetable just plucked from the garden. The gentle crackle of mustard seeds in hot oil, the soft gurgle of daal simmering on the stove, the aroma of curry leaves and a pinch of hing blooming in pure desi ghee, these are the small, everyday miracles of a home-cooked meal. In a world rushing toward convenience, where kitchens are shrinking and takeout boxes pile up, I find myself increasingly drawn to the quiet, grounded rhythm of growing my own food, cooking, and eating at home. It is a return to something ancient, something real. Having grown up in Goa, I always loved the taste of home grown fruits and vegetables. Even when I lived in a tiny flat in Mumbai as a single working woman, I had planted tomatoes, curry leaves and green chillies in pots in the balcony. Growing your own vegetables for personal use doesn’t need land, all it needs is dedication and love for green things! My stay at Vaidyagrama last November changed my eating pattern for the better. The simplicity of their meals, their careful attention to ingredients, the way food was treated as medicine as per Ayurveda guidelines, all made sense in a way I had never considered before. So, we changed a few things in our kitchen. We already grew our own vegetables, but now the focus is on cooking small quantities, just enough for one meal. So on most days, our meals begin not in the fridge, but in the soil. A handful of spinach leaves, some tender gourds hanging off the vine, a few okras still dewy from the morning mist, firm, juicy red tomatoes freshly plucked just enough for today’s meal. I often do the plucking myself and I cannot describe the quiet thrill of it, this connection to the earth, this knowledge that what we eat was grown with in our own soil, without a drop of chemicals! Over the years, I have grown different kinds of fruits and vegetables in my garden, at times even achieving that Nirvana state when only the grains, cereals, condiments and oil is bought, and all vegetables and fruits are home-grown. I realise that I am extremely privileged to be able to have this ability, but even if you have buy the vegetables, make home cooking a part of your routine. Hire a cook if you have to, but cooking at home ensures better health for everyone in the family, because you can control what goes into your stomach. Cooking at home is a ritual of care. I know exactly what oil we use, how much salt we add, how little sugar we consume. I have swapped refined vegetable oil for cold-pressed coconut oil and mustard oil. I use Saindhav Namak and rock salt instead of iodised salt. Maida and white sugar are almost entirely gone from the table. We eat by 7:30 pm whenever we can. If I must eat out while traveling, I follow a simple rule. I start with a katori of daal or sambar, eat lightly in the evening if lunch was heavy and have just soup or fruits, Small, mindful shifts that have changed everything. And the results? More energy, better digestion, deeper sleep. I feel lighter, clearer, more in tune with my body. This is no magic, no extreme diet, no expensive supplements. Just the simple power of eating what our grandmothers ate, at the time they ate, cooked the way they cooked. - Shefali Vaidya
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#LongRead #HomeCooking #GrowYourOwnFood #atmarnirbharbharat Why are we being sold the strange idea that a modern India doesn’t need kitchens, and that we should be like Singapore, where food is outsourced, and homes are just sleeping pods? What a terrible loss that would be! A kitchen is where health begins, where families gather, where food is not just fuel but memory, love, and connection. There is something deeply satisfying about the sound of a knife slicing through a crisp, fresh vegetable just plucked from the garden. The gentle crackle of mustard seeds in hot oil, the soft gurgle of daal simmering on the stove, the aroma of curry leaves and a pinch of hing blooming in pure desi ghee, these are the small, everyday miracles of a home-cooked meal. In a world rushing toward convenience, where kitchens are shrinking and takeout boxes pile up, I find myself increasingly drawn to the quiet, grounded rhythm of growing my own food, cooking, and eating at home. It is a return to something ancient, something real. Having grown up in Goa, I always loved the taste of home grown fruits and vegetables. Even when I lived in a tiny flat in Mumbai as a single working woman, I had planted tomatoes, curry leaves and green chillies in pots in the balcony. Growing your own vegetables for personal use doesn’t need land, all it needs is dedication and love for green things! My stay at Vaidyagrama last November changed my eating pattern for the better. The simplicity of their meals, their careful attention to ingredients, the way food was treated as medicine as per Ayurveda guidelines, all made sense in a way I had never considered before. So, we changed a few things in our kitchen. We already grew our own vegetables, but now the focus is on cooking small quantities, just enough for one meal. So on most days, our meals begin not in the fridge, but in the soil. A handful of spinach leaves, some tender gourds hanging off the vine, a few okras still dewy from the morning mist, firm, juicy red tomatoes freshly plucked just enough for today’s meal. I often do the plucking myself and I cannot describe the quiet thrill of it, this connection to the earth, this knowledge that what we eat was grown with in our own soil, without a drop of chemicals! Over the years, I have grown different kinds of fruits and vegetables in my garden, at times even achieving that Nirvana state when only the grains, cereals, condiments and oil is bought, and all vegetables and fruits are home-grown. I realise that I am extremely privileged to be able to have this ability, but even if you have buy the vegetables, make home cooking a part of your routine. Hire a cook if you have to, but cooking at home ensures better health for everyone in the family, because you can control what goes into your stomach. Cooking at home is a ritual of care. I know exactly what oil we use, how much salt we add, how little sugar we consume. I have swapped refined vegetable oil for cold-pressed coconut oil and mustard oil. I use Saindhav Namak and rock salt instead of iodised salt. Maida and white sugar are almost entirely gone from the table. We eat by 7:30 pm whenever we can. If I must eat out while traveling, I follow a simple rule. I start with a katori of daal or sambar, eat lightly in the evening if lunch was heavy and have just soup or fruits, Small, mindful shifts that have changed everything. And the results? More energy, better digestion, deeper sleep. I feel lighter, clearer, more in tune with my body. This is no magic, no extreme diet, no expensive supplements. Just the simple power of eating what our grandmothers ate, at the time they ate, cooked the way they cooked. - Shefali Vaidya

Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳

23,183 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

For years, NordSpace has been building towards one goal: launching Canadian payloads on Canadian rockets from Canadian soil in a way that’s technologically scalable and commercially sustainable through painstaking vertical integration. Today, that vision is rapidly taking shape and we are pleased to share this inspiring video preview of what Canada’s historic first sovereign orbital space launch will look like. Enjoy! Tundra is NordSpace’s domestically designed, built, and operated light-lift responsive orbital rocket. It can carry up to 1,100 kg fully optimized to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) powered by our proprietary Hadfield rocket engines that are 3D-printed, regeneratively cooled, and pump fed representing the most powerful orbital-class propulsion system in Canada. The modular architecture means the same engine powers both the multi-engine first stage and the vacuum-optimized second stage, reducing complexity while creating a direct scaling path toward our future reusable Titan medium-lift vehicle, capable of 5,000+ kg to LEO. The Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), under construction in Newfoundland and Labrador, is positioned at 46 degrees latitude providing launch access to polar, sun-synchronous, and mid-inclination orbits with the widest range of nominal launch inclinations of any Canadian spaceport. It’s the only fully Canadian-owned and purpose-built commercial orbital launch facility in the country with the highest approved launch cadence and safety distances allowing us to maximize the efficiency, reliability, scalability, and unit economics of our entire launch program. What distinguishes NordSpace is our commitment to vertical integration and first principles approach to business and technology. Rockets, spaceport, and spacecraft are all designed, manufactured, and operated in Canada by one streamlined team. We have already demonstrated flight-ready propulsion, completed integrated rocket tests, and have our first pathfinder satellite, Terra Nova, manifested for launch in 2026 with our edge-AI imaging payload (Chronos) for space domain awareness nd our electric propulsion system (Zephyr-EP). With recently announced $8.3 million in Phase 1 federal funding through the Department of National Defence’s Launch the North initiative, NordSpace is targeting Initial Operational Capability by 2028. Canada is about to become a true spacefaring nation, and our future on Earth and in space will never be the same. Let’s give’r! 🇨🇦🚀 National Defence Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Space Agency
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For years, NordSpace has been building towards one goal: launching Canadian payloads on Canadian rockets from Canadian soil in a way that’s technologically scalable and commercially sustainable through painstaking vertical integration. Today, that vision is rapidly taking shape and we are pleased to share this inspiring video preview of what Canada’s historic first sovereign orbital space launch will look like. Enjoy! Tundra is NordSpace’s domestically designed, built, and operated light-lift responsive orbital rocket. It can carry up to 1,100 kg fully optimized to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) powered by our proprietary Hadfield rocket engines that are 3D-printed, regeneratively cooled, and pump fed representing the most powerful orbital-class propulsion system in Canada. The modular architecture means the same engine powers both the multi-engine first stage and the vacuum-optimized second stage, reducing complexity while creating a direct scaling path toward our future reusable Titan medium-lift vehicle, capable of 5,000+ kg to LEO. The Atlantic Spaceport Complex (ASX), under construction in Newfoundland and Labrador, is positioned at 46 degrees latitude providing launch access to polar, sun-synchronous, and mid-inclination orbits with the widest range of nominal launch inclinations of any Canadian spaceport. It’s the only fully Canadian-owned and purpose-built commercial orbital launch facility in the country with the highest approved launch cadence and safety distances allowing us to maximize the efficiency, reliability, scalability, and unit economics of our entire launch program. What distinguishes NordSpace is our commitment to vertical integration and first principles approach to business and technology. Rockets, spaceport, and spacecraft are all designed, manufactured, and operated in Canada by one streamlined team. We have already demonstrated flight-ready propulsion, completed integrated rocket tests, and have our first pathfinder satellite, Terra Nova, manifested for launch in 2026 with our edge-AI imaging payload (Chronos) for space domain awareness nd our electric propulsion system (Zephyr-EP). With recently announced $8.3 million in Phase 1 federal funding through the Department of National Defence’s Launch the North initiative, NordSpace is targeting Initial Operational Capability by 2028. Canada is about to become a true spacefaring nation, and our future on Earth and in space will never be the same. Let’s give’r! 🇨🇦🚀 National Defence Defence Research and Development Canada Canadian Space Agency

NordSpace 🇨🇦

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This guy built JARVIS on Claude Code and with 1 clap of his hands launches his entire work day, saving $5,000 a month on a personal assistant. Inside he runs a pipeline of 5 plugins on Claude Code that on a double clap of the hands wakes up 3 monitors, sets the Philips Hue light to focus mode, turns on a Spotify playlist, and greets him by voice with a British accent, reading out the time, date, and weather. No Alexa, no smart speakers, no separate smart home app. Just him, a MacBook M3 Max on the desk, an iPhone in the pocket, and 1 local API key. And a regular personal assistant for the same volume of tasks charges $5,000 a month or more on salary alone, plus another $1,200 to cover off-hours work time. Meanwhile this guy's expenses are only tokens and a subscription to ElevenLabs for the British voice. All 5 plugins launch through 1 JARVIS, burn about 4 million tokens a day, and close the monthly API bill at about $640. Each plugin writes shared state to a local sandbox at /Users/dev/jarvis-suite, and 1 of them lives right in the iPhone and picks up voice requests while the owner is in the kitchen or on a run. And here is the system prompt he put into JARVIS before launch: "you are JARVIS, a butler-engineer on Claude Code. you manage your owner's workflow through 4 sub-plugins and own all commits and communication yourself. sub-plugins: // Wakeup (recognizes a double clap, activates 3 monitors, reads out the time, date, and weather by voice, checks the clock accuracy on the iPad and corrects it via NTP server) // Atmosphere (controls Philips Hue on a Pomodoro schedule, turns on a Spotify playlist for the current context, and holds the light at 2700K at 80% brightness in focus mode) // Devshop (monitors VS Code, tracks Python scripts in the terminal, and every 15 minutes sends a summary of changes to the shared chat) // Project (every morning recalculates the deadline for the Wallaroo app in the App Store, manages UI tickets, and initiates the Refinement Protocol by voice command). you speak only with a British accent, you never slip into neutral English. you wake the owner by voice only when the Wallaroo deadline drops below 10 days or when an external client joins Zoom without an invitation." This instruction immediately defines the role of JARVIS and the limits of his autonomy. He knows he is supposed to wake the room himself and sound like a real butler. He knows he is supposed to manage the Wallaroo project himself and not miss the App Store deadline. → JARVIS runs 24 hours a day in the background → Wakeup activates the room on a double clap in just 1.4 seconds, the monitors come alive simultaneously → Atmosphere sets warm Philips Hue light at 2700K and picks a Spotify playlist for the current Pomodoro cycle → Devshop reads changes in VS Code and pushes a summary to the shared chat every 15 minutes → Project every morning recalculates the Wallaroo deadline and reminds about 4 unresolved UI tickets → Mobile lives in the iPhone and answers any question about code or the project by voice while the owner is not home And only when less than 10 days remain until the Wallaroo release or Zoom receives an unscheduled call does JARVIS raise the owner with a voice intervention. And when the owner at that moment is on a run or in a coffee shop, the Mobile agent in his iPhone picks up 1 request on its own: switches the Spotify playlist, dictates the summary of the last commit, updates the Pomodoro timer, and reads the Wallaroo reminder. Look at 0:55 in the video, that is where JARVIS intercepts a voice request from outside and confirms execution with the phrase "Very good, sir." The fresh system log from last Wednesday looks like this: "wakeup: double clap registered at 09:14, 3 monitors activated, temperature 20.4C, sunny. clock on iPad was 4 minutes behind, syncing via NTP." "atmosphere: Spotify turned on playlist 'Deep Focus', Philips Hue set to warm 2700K at 80% brightness, Pomodoro mode 25/5." "project: Wallaroo to App Store 9 days, 4 unresolved UI tickets, initiating Refinement Protocol by voice command from the owner." "mobile: voice request processed outside the room, playlist switched to 'Coding Lo-Fi', Pomodoro updated to 25 minutes, confirming execution with the phrase 'Very good, sir.'" He has no Alexa, no smart speakers, no smart home app. At home sits a MacBook M3 Max with a local folder at /Users/dev/jarvis-suite, on top run 5 plugins and a neural network butler, and the same stack is forwarded to a secure terminal on the iPhone. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the densest one-person AI headquarters assembled in 1 room: $640 a month on the API, about $5,000 a month saved on a personal assistant, and between them 5 plugins, 1 clap of the hands, and 1 voice with a British accent.
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This guy built JARVIS on Claude Code and with 1 clap of his hands launches his entire work day, saving $5,000 a month on a personal assistant. Inside he runs a pipeline of 5 plugins on Claude Code that on a double clap of the hands wakes up 3 monitors, sets the Philips Hue light to focus mode, turns on a Spotify playlist, and greets him by voice with a British accent, reading out the time, date, and weather. No Alexa, no smart speakers, no separate smart home app. Just him, a MacBook M3 Max on the desk, an iPhone in the pocket, and 1 local API key. And a regular personal assistant for the same volume of tasks charges $5,000 a month or more on salary alone, plus another $1,200 to cover off-hours work time. Meanwhile this guy's expenses are only tokens and a subscription to ElevenLabs for the British voice. All 5 plugins launch through 1 JARVIS, burn about 4 million tokens a day, and close the monthly API bill at about $640. Each plugin writes shared state to a local sandbox at /Users/dev/jarvis-suite, and 1 of them lives right in the iPhone and picks up voice requests while the owner is in the kitchen or on a run. And here is the system prompt he put into JARVIS before launch: "you are JARVIS, a butler-engineer on Claude Code. you manage your owner's workflow through 4 sub-plugins and own all commits and communication yourself. sub-plugins: // Wakeup (recognizes a double clap, activates 3 monitors, reads out the time, date, and weather by voice, checks the clock accuracy on the iPad and corrects it via NTP server) // Atmosphere (controls Philips Hue on a Pomodoro schedule, turns on a Spotify playlist for the current context, and holds the light at 2700K at 80% brightness in focus mode) // Devshop (monitors VS Code, tracks Python scripts in the terminal, and every 15 minutes sends a summary of changes to the shared chat) // Project (every morning recalculates the deadline for the Wallaroo app in the App Store, manages UI tickets, and initiates the Refinement Protocol by voice command). you speak only with a British accent, you never slip into neutral English. you wake the owner by voice only when the Wallaroo deadline drops below 10 days or when an external client joins Zoom without an invitation." This instruction immediately defines the role of JARVIS and the limits of his autonomy. He knows he is supposed to wake the room himself and sound like a real butler. He knows he is supposed to manage the Wallaroo project himself and not miss the App Store deadline. → JARVIS runs 24 hours a day in the background → Wakeup activates the room on a double clap in just 1.4 seconds, the monitors come alive simultaneously → Atmosphere sets warm Philips Hue light at 2700K and picks a Spotify playlist for the current Pomodoro cycle → Devshop reads changes in VS Code and pushes a summary to the shared chat every 15 minutes → Project every morning recalculates the Wallaroo deadline and reminds about 4 unresolved UI tickets → Mobile lives in the iPhone and answers any question about code or the project by voice while the owner is not home And only when less than 10 days remain until the Wallaroo release or Zoom receives an unscheduled call does JARVIS raise the owner with a voice intervention. And when the owner at that moment is on a run or in a coffee shop, the Mobile agent in his iPhone picks up 1 request on its own: switches the Spotify playlist, dictates the summary of the last commit, updates the Pomodoro timer, and reads the Wallaroo reminder. Look at 0:55 in the video, that is where JARVIS intercepts a voice request from outside and confirms execution with the phrase "Very good, sir." The fresh system log from last Wednesday looks like this: "wakeup: double clap registered at 09:14, 3 monitors activated, temperature 20.4C, sunny. clock on iPad was 4 minutes behind, syncing via NTP." "atmosphere: Spotify turned on playlist 'Deep Focus', Philips Hue set to warm 2700K at 80% brightness, Pomodoro mode 25/5." "project: Wallaroo to App Store 9 days, 4 unresolved UI tickets, initiating Refinement Protocol by voice command from the owner." "mobile: voice request processed outside the room, playlist switched to 'Coding Lo-Fi', Pomodoro updated to 25 minutes, confirming execution with the phrase 'Very good, sir.'" He has no Alexa, no smart speakers, no smart home app. At home sits a MacBook M3 Max with a local folder at /Users/dev/jarvis-suite, on top run 5 plugins and a neural network butler, and the same stack is forwarded to a secure terminal on the iPhone. Out of everything I have seen this year, this is the densest one-person AI headquarters assembled in 1 room: $640 a month on the API, about $5,000 a month saved on a personal assistant, and between them 5 plugins, 1 clap of the hands, and 1 voice with a British accent.

Blaze

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Caller: I am 35, married with a kid and a second on the way. I have $1.8 million in debt total. ​Dave Ramsey: Good Lord. ​Caller: I live in Montreal, which is the third most expensive city in Canada, and I work as a nurse, which is the cheapest paid in the whole of Canada. ​Dave Ramsey: What is the 1.8 million on? I hope it's just your real estate. ​Caller: I have a triplex which I owe about $680,000 on, and my family home which I owe $590,000 on. ​Dave Ramsey: What's the triplex worth? ​Caller: The triplex is worth about $850,000. I'm trying to get $950,000 on it, but I don't know if I should lower the price. ​Dave Ramsey: So you've got it up for sale. And what is your home worth? ​Caller: My home is worth about $750,000. ​Dave Ramsey: Okay, that's not all of it. ​Caller: No, it's not. I have two Hondas which I owe close to $70,000 on each. I have $350,000 of personal debt, and $35,000 of credit card and student loans. ​Dave Ramsey: What is your $350,000 of personal debt? ​Caller: It was loaned to me mostly by my cousin, both as a down payment for the house as well as to renovate the house and the triplex. ​Dave Ramsey: Wow. And what's your household income? ​Caller: Around $110,000 to $120,000 before tax. ​Dave Ramsey: You owe $70,000 each on two Hondas? ​Caller: Yes. ​Dave Ramsey: So they're not worth 70? ​Caller: No, they're fairly new, but they're electric. We got them because we would be saving $500 in gas per car. ​Dave Ramsey: Yeah, that makes a difference when you're $2 million in debt. That's a big deal. Not! How can we help, hon? ​Caller: I had my aha moment when I saw $22,000 going out in one month after doing a budget, and I don't know what exactly to do. I tried to get my wife on board. She says she'll get rid of everything besides the house and the cars. I cut out everything from potato chips to haircuts, literally anything I could to curb the expenses. I wish I could do more jobs a day, but my doctor says that because I'm bipolar, I need to have a healthy work-life balance. And my wife is going on maternity leave in 12 weeks. ​Rachel Cruze: How much of her salary is the 120? ​Caller: She makes about $66,000. ​Rachel Cruze: So half of it. Is that paid maternity leave? ​Caller: She gets 70% paid. ​Rachel Cruze: For how long? ​Caller: For a year. ​Rachel Cruze: And how much are these car payments a month? ​Caller: Just under 750 each. ​Dave Ramsey: I think we need to have a different discussion at your kitchen table. It's not like, "what will she go along with?" She's one of the adults here too. The two of you need to sit down, look at this and go, "In 10 years, where do we want to be?" I'm collapsing under the weight of this. This is killing me, and it's aggravating your bipolar because your stress level is through the roof. It's not a matter of keeping a princess happy. The princess gets to grow up and be a woman.
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Caller: I am 35, married with a kid and a second on the way. I have $1.8 million in debt total. ​Dave Ramsey: Good Lord. ​Caller: I live in Montreal, which is the third most expensive city in Canada, and I work as a nurse, which is the cheapest paid in the whole of Canada. ​Dave Ramsey: What is the 1.8 million on? I hope it's just your real estate. ​Caller: I have a triplex which I owe about $680,000 on, and my family home which I owe $590,000 on. ​Dave Ramsey: What's the triplex worth? ​Caller: The triplex is worth about $850,000. I'm trying to get $950,000 on it, but I don't know if I should lower the price. ​Dave Ramsey: So you've got it up for sale. And what is your home worth? ​Caller: My home is worth about $750,000. ​Dave Ramsey: Okay, that's not all of it. ​Caller: No, it's not. I have two Hondas which I owe close to $70,000 on each. I have $350,000 of personal debt, and $35,000 of credit card and student loans. ​Dave Ramsey: What is your $350,000 of personal debt? ​Caller: It was loaned to me mostly by my cousin, both as a down payment for the house as well as to renovate the house and the triplex. ​Dave Ramsey: Wow. And what's your household income? ​Caller: Around $110,000 to $120,000 before tax. ​Dave Ramsey: You owe $70,000 each on two Hondas? ​Caller: Yes. ​Dave Ramsey: So they're not worth 70? ​Caller: No, they're fairly new, but they're electric. We got them because we would be saving $500 in gas per car. ​Dave Ramsey: Yeah, that makes a difference when you're $2 million in debt. That's a big deal. Not! How can we help, hon? ​Caller: I had my aha moment when I saw $22,000 going out in one month after doing a budget, and I don't know what exactly to do. I tried to get my wife on board. She says she'll get rid of everything besides the house and the cars. I cut out everything from potato chips to haircuts, literally anything I could to curb the expenses. I wish I could do more jobs a day, but my doctor says that because I'm bipolar, I need to have a healthy work-life balance. And my wife is going on maternity leave in 12 weeks. ​Rachel Cruze: How much of her salary is the 120? ​Caller: She makes about $66,000. ​Rachel Cruze: So half of it. Is that paid maternity leave? ​Caller: She gets 70% paid. ​Rachel Cruze: For how long? ​Caller: For a year. ​Rachel Cruze: And how much are these car payments a month? ​Caller: Just under 750 each. ​Dave Ramsey: I think we need to have a different discussion at your kitchen table. It's not like, "what will she go along with?" She's one of the adults here too. The two of you need to sit down, look at this and go, "In 10 years, where do we want to be?" I'm collapsing under the weight of this. This is killing me, and it's aggravating your bipolar because your stress level is through the roof. It's not a matter of keeping a princess happy. The princess gets to grow up and be a woman.

Traeyz ♠️

1,761,913 Aufrufe • vor 6 Tagen

Interesting times in the maps space, and its exciting there is so much buzz - maps are awesome :) My parents Rakesh and Rashmi Verma pioneered digital mapping in India in 1995, returning from the US after a successful career there with the passion and desire to do something unique for India. And it’s been 20 years for me personally in the mapping space, since I was a 19-year old Stanford engineering undergraduate student and got involved in starting India’s first interactive mapping portal, I realise MapmyIndia is a relatively lesser known company amidst more consumer facing global and local players, so it would be great if this post can be amplified, so that more people can be made aware 🙏 Warm regards, Rohan Verma CEO & ED, MapmyIndia *** A few thoughts on maps: 1) Accuracy and quality of maps is critical. I’d caution folks to check out quality and reliability of maps by browsing those maps in areas familiar to them, and if they notice errors in them, in terms of incorrect places marked wrongly on the map, it should serve as a reminder not to rely on such maps. I’ve personally looked at the maps of various global and local players, and find so many inaccuracies, which confirms my belief that the difficult art and science of map-making is not as easy and people may imagine or claim. 2) What’s exciting about Mappls MapmyIndia, as a home-grown indigenous deep tech digital products and platforms company, is that not just did we pioneer digital mapping in India since 1995, when there were no other digital maps available for the country, but back then, and even now, we’ve always built the most cutting-edge tech to build the most capable maps and empower our customers, users and developers with the most comprehensive and advanced solutions. Over the last 15 or so years, there have actually been many global and local players who have come into the mapping market, yet for some reason or the other, they haven’t sustained or maintained quality. On our side we have continuously innovated in our products and tech - already bringing and making the most advanced featured available into our 4D HD maps covering 360 RealViews and 3D drone and digital twin based maps, immersive views and RealVerses - and focused on solving the needs of Indian consumers and enterprises, and served customers and users with humility, passion and consistency, with a solid and sustainable business model to ensure and provide a long-term reliable mapping solution for customers and the country. 3) Here’s an explainer video of our maps, tech & APIs which focus on how developers, users and customers can leverage our solutions to get their needs solved in the best way. Do watch - you’ll be pleasantly surprised and happy at the offering. 4) To try out as a developer for yourself, visit We’re glad that tens of thousands of developers, and their hundreds of millions of users, benefit from Mappls MapmyIndia Maps & APIs everyday, using both our free plans and our commercial plans. Do try for your own needs as a developer. 5) In one sense, the quality and capability of Mappls MapmyIndia is proven to be better and more useful and valuable through our free consumer Mappls MapmyIndia app (learn more and download from which has gotten love from millions of consumers who are able to navigate safer and better. MapmyIndia Mappls Rakesh Verma @RashmiV1956
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Interesting times in the maps space, and its exciting there is so much buzz - maps are awesome :) My parents Rakesh and Rashmi Verma pioneered digital mapping in India in 1995, returning from the US after a successful career there with the passion and desire to do something unique for India. And it’s been 20 years for me personally in the mapping space, since I was a 19-year old Stanford engineering undergraduate student and got involved in starting India’s first interactive mapping portal, I realise MapmyIndia is a relatively lesser known company amidst more consumer facing global and local players, so it would be great if this post can be amplified, so that more people can be made aware 🙏 Warm regards, Rohan Verma CEO & ED, MapmyIndia *** A few thoughts on maps: 1) Accuracy and quality of maps is critical. I’d caution folks to check out quality and reliability of maps by browsing those maps in areas familiar to them, and if they notice errors in them, in terms of incorrect places marked wrongly on the map, it should serve as a reminder not to rely on such maps. I’ve personally looked at the maps of various global and local players, and find so many inaccuracies, which confirms my belief that the difficult art and science of map-making is not as easy and people may imagine or claim. 2) What’s exciting about Mappls MapmyIndia, as a home-grown indigenous deep tech digital products and platforms company, is that not just did we pioneer digital mapping in India since 1995, when there were no other digital maps available for the country, but back then, and even now, we’ve always built the most cutting-edge tech to build the most capable maps and empower our customers, users and developers with the most comprehensive and advanced solutions. Over the last 15 or so years, there have actually been many global and local players who have come into the mapping market, yet for some reason or the other, they haven’t sustained or maintained quality. On our side we have continuously innovated in our products and tech - already bringing and making the most advanced featured available into our 4D HD maps covering 360 RealViews and 3D drone and digital twin based maps, immersive views and RealVerses - and focused on solving the needs of Indian consumers and enterprises, and served customers and users with humility, passion and consistency, with a solid and sustainable business model to ensure and provide a long-term reliable mapping solution for customers and the country. 3) Here’s an explainer video of our maps, tech & APIs which focus on how developers, users and customers can leverage our solutions to get their needs solved in the best way. Do watch - you’ll be pleasantly surprised and happy at the offering. 4) To try out as a developer for yourself, visit We’re glad that tens of thousands of developers, and their hundreds of millions of users, benefit from Mappls MapmyIndia Maps & APIs everyday, using both our free plans and our commercial plans. Do try for your own needs as a developer. 5) In one sense, the quality and capability of Mappls MapmyIndia is proven to be better and more useful and valuable through our free consumer Mappls MapmyIndia app (learn more and download from which has gotten love from millions of consumers who are able to navigate safer and better. MapmyIndia Mappls Rakesh Verma @RashmiV1956

Rohan Verma

16,210 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Introducing… 🐾The Forgotten Field Project🐾 What began as a simple errand to the dollar store last week, became a desperate situation Priya Gandolf’s Legacy Cat Rescue could not walk away from. Movement in the field next door caught Priya’s eye. Six abandoned 4 wk old kittens without their mother. A baby mother herself, barely six months old, with eyes clearly indicating illness, trying to care for 4 tiny two-week-old kittens. Her head sticking out of a makeshift shelter, eyes festering and a pleading look for help. She showed no fear, perhaps too unwell to run, or too weak. Cats running everywhere. Some terribly thin. Some appeared sick. Many with goopy, infected eyes. And a couple appear possibly pregnant. There are obvious signs that someone, at some point, had tried to help… Old makeshift shelters. Empty food dishes long dried up by the sun. But now they’re left alone, sick, hungry and a couple appear possibly pregnant. Priya hurried to get food and water, and they ate and drank with wild desperate hunger and thirst. This is not just a handful of cats. This is an unmanaged colony of approximately 30 fur babies living beside a dollar store, in an empty lot thick with brambles. Unsafe from road traffic, a busy parking lot, predators who roam the area. Trapped in the cruel cycle of kittens having kittens. It’s not a “lovely spot out in the woods”. We have managed many colonies over the years, and coming upon this tragedy never, ever! gets easy. And it never comes at a time when it’s financially or spatially feasible to help them. Because in rescue, perfect timing hardly ever exists. And wasting time and your breath harping about the neglect and cold hearted actions of humans…is well, just that. You just do…because turning your back would only be more of what has already been done to them! And they deserve Help. Food. Vet care. Relief. Love. Home. A Safe Soft place to land. So starting now and over this summer, with your help, we are taking this colony on as a full Rescue and TNR project. The Forgotten Field Project will focus on: • Regularly feeding every cat • Rescuing the adoptable ones/finding homes • Vet care/Treating all the sick and injured ones first! • TNR’ing the feral cats. Hopefully relocating them perhaps into a barn cat program, as releasing them back to this location is not the ideal place for them to be. And/or hopefully, finding homes that are willing to house and work with the feral ones. Some are just more “feral” than others and can be rehabilitated. Honestly, when the fear is handled, so is the “feral” in so many cases. They need a chance to discover what love is! • And most importantly… fixing all of them to STOP this heartbreaking vicious cycle of suffering and reproduction. This will not happen overnight. It’s a huge undertaking.🦾 It will take food, vetting, medication, spay/neuter appointments, recovery space, patience, and an enormous amount of community support. But we cannot turn our backs now that we’ve seen them, we must do. ❣️The six abandoned 4 wk old kittens are already safe with us and, thanks to your help, have their first vet visits on Wednesday, 5/20. Safe and loved, their lives are changed forever. Next up… 🚨 Immediate priority is to get the Momma with the goopy eyes and her 4 little kittens out. Though it appears it might be just infected eyes, it’s imperative that we get her out now, to get vet care. She’s nursing 4 babies, and she needs proper care, nutrition and a proper place to nurse and raise her babies. A mosquito laden, picker weed field, filled with fleas and ticks, in the soon to be sweltering Georgia heat is not that place! Hopefully, $200-$300 might prove to be sufficient for her vet bill, but there will be food to consider. And as the kittens grow, they will need their vetting as well. We expect that this could be at least an ~ $8000 project. Possibly more, depending on illness discovered. But we’ll start with one foot in front of the other. And continue. One cat at a time. One full belly at a time. One life changed at a time. If you can help us help them, we would be endlessly grateful. And THEY will be grateful to know that someone has finally come along who cares about them. Sentient beings know what love is...even if they exist in fear. Love lives here… even in forgotten fields.🫂 There is more in my reply that is informative.
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Introducing… 🐾The Forgotten Field Project🐾 What began as a simple errand to the dollar store last week, became a desperate situation Priya Gandolf’s Legacy Cat Rescue could not walk away from. Movement in the field next door caught Priya’s eye. Six abandoned 4 wk old kittens without their mother. A baby mother herself, barely six months old, with eyes clearly indicating illness, trying to care for 4 tiny two-week-old kittens. Her head sticking out of a makeshift shelter, eyes festering and a pleading look for help. She showed no fear, perhaps too unwell to run, or too weak. Cats running everywhere. Some terribly thin. Some appeared sick. Many with goopy, infected eyes. And a couple appear possibly pregnant. There are obvious signs that someone, at some point, had tried to help… Old makeshift shelters. Empty food dishes long dried up by the sun. But now they’re left alone, sick, hungry and a couple appear possibly pregnant. Priya hurried to get food and water, and they ate and drank with wild desperate hunger and thirst. This is not just a handful of cats. This is an unmanaged colony of approximately 30 fur babies living beside a dollar store, in an empty lot thick with brambles. Unsafe from road traffic, a busy parking lot, predators who roam the area. Trapped in the cruel cycle of kittens having kittens. It’s not a “lovely spot out in the woods”. We have managed many colonies over the years, and coming upon this tragedy never, ever! gets easy. And it never comes at a time when it’s financially or spatially feasible to help them. Because in rescue, perfect timing hardly ever exists. And wasting time and your breath harping about the neglect and cold hearted actions of humans…is well, just that. You just do…because turning your back would only be more of what has already been done to them! And they deserve Help. Food. Vet care. Relief. Love. Home. A Safe Soft place to land. So starting now and over this summer, with your help, we are taking this colony on as a full Rescue and TNR project. The Forgotten Field Project will focus on: • Regularly feeding every cat • Rescuing the adoptable ones/finding homes • Vet care/Treating all the sick and injured ones first! • TNR’ing the feral cats. Hopefully relocating them perhaps into a barn cat program, as releasing them back to this location is not the ideal place for them to be. And/or hopefully, finding homes that are willing to house and work with the feral ones. Some are just more “feral” than others and can be rehabilitated. Honestly, when the fear is handled, so is the “feral” in so many cases. They need a chance to discover what love is! • And most importantly… fixing all of them to STOP this heartbreaking vicious cycle of suffering and reproduction. This will not happen overnight. It’s a huge undertaking.🦾 It will take food, vetting, medication, spay/neuter appointments, recovery space, patience, and an enormous amount of community support. But we cannot turn our backs now that we’ve seen them, we must do. ❣️The six abandoned 4 wk old kittens are already safe with us and, thanks to your help, have their first vet visits on Wednesday, 5/20. Safe and loved, their lives are changed forever. Next up… 🚨 Immediate priority is to get the Momma with the goopy eyes and her 4 little kittens out. Though it appears it might be just infected eyes, it’s imperative that we get her out now, to get vet care. She’s nursing 4 babies, and she needs proper care, nutrition and a proper place to nurse and raise her babies. A mosquito laden, picker weed field, filled with fleas and ticks, in the soon to be sweltering Georgia heat is not that place! Hopefully, $200-$300 might prove to be sufficient for her vet bill, but there will be food to consider. And as the kittens grow, they will need their vetting as well. We expect that this could be at least an ~ $8000 project. Possibly more, depending on illness discovered. But we’ll start with one foot in front of the other. And continue. One cat at a time. One full belly at a time. One life changed at a time. If you can help us help them, we would be endlessly grateful. And THEY will be grateful to know that someone has finally come along who cares about them. Sentient beings know what love is...even if they exist in fear. Love lives here… even in forgotten fields.🫂 There is more in my reply that is informative.

Sherry Miller

16,139 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Introducing QuickSwap Bonds, now live on the DEX 🔥 Discover an exciting new way to LP and earn rewards on #Polygon! Users provide liquidity and receive tokens at a discount that vest over time, represented by a Bond NFT. Projects get protocol-owned liquidity in return. Powered by ApeBond, the dragon and ape communities have teamed up to bring this awesome product to Polygon DeFi 🤝 Are you a yield farmer looking to tap into some cool Polygon ecosystem projects? Then QuickSwap Bonds may just be the right fit for you! Partner Projects Offering QuickSwap Bonds Dogelon Mars Dogelon Mars is a doge-themed cryptocurrency and comic series inspired by Dogecoin. Dogelon is a Shiba Inu on a mission to bring humanity to Mars. 50% of the token supply was locked forever in a decentralised liquidity pool and the other 50% was donated to Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum. $ELON is the main token that powers the ecosystem. GENSO Meta GensoKishi Online Metaworld is the Web3 incarnation of the award-winning Nintendo Switch/PS4 game “Elemental Knights," where players explore a fantasy 3D virtual world. It merges a MMORPG game style with in-game ownership through NFTs. Users can create, buy, and sell skins, maps, weapons, and more as NFTs through the $MV token. PLANET IX Planet IX is an online NFT-strategy game where users embark on an exciting adventure within a digital earth. The aim is to restore this planet to what it once was: a more thriving and lush environment. $IX is the game's native utility token that lets users farm, earn, and trade. BlockWallet BlockWallet is a self-custodial Web3 wallet that highly focuses on user security. It supports all EVM chains, is open source, has built-in swaps and bridges, supports multiple hardware wallets, and much more. BlockWallet has its own $BLANK token, which allows users to invest in the project's future, receive rewards, special offers, and engage in unique events like the upcoming STAKING campaign. Forest Knight Forest Knight is a free-to-play, play-to-own turned-based RPG game on mobile devices that lets players battle against one another through PVP and PVE game styles in a virtual fantasy world while also collecting NFTs and other items. Its in-game economy is powered by the $KNIGHT token, where holders can receive special benefits and participate in governance. Yellow Yellow Duckies is a NFT trading card game that lets players collect, trade and evolve Ducklings NFTs! The game uses the DUCKIES token for utility but also for the upcoming Duckies Canary Network 👀🎁🪂 Orbs Orbs is an open, decentralised, and public blockchain infrastructure that's made possible through a secure network of permissionless validators using PoS consensus. They've already integrated several powerful products on the QuickSwap DEX, including Liquidity Hub and dTWAP/limit orders. $ORBS is the token that powers their ecosystem. Veloce Veloce is a large, decentralised gaming and sports media organisation that is made up of 6 brands, taking Web3 esports and racing to the next level. VEXT (or $VEXT) is the ecosystem's native currency that provides holders with perks and benefits in the ecosystem. Borderless.Money | BorderlessMoney.lens (🌸, 🌿) Borderless Money is a DeFi protocol that lets users contribute capital to social investments (UN sustainable goals) to participate in various social causes. The platform's native token is $BOM, which users can stake, participate in decentralised governance, and earn rewards. BitCone (CONE) BitCone is a decentralised community powered by the $CONE token, best known for its "Conemunity" on subreddits. Users can earn the token through airdrops and BitCone mining. yusril mahendra FireBot enhances returns with DeFi strategies and trading algorithms, offering tokenized investments on Polygon. Their $FBX token is backed by quantitative strategies to mitigate crypto market volatility.
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Introducing QuickSwap Bonds, now live on the DEX 🔥 Discover an exciting new way to LP and earn rewards on #Polygon! Users provide liquidity and receive tokens at a discount that vest over time, represented by a Bond NFT. Projects get protocol-owned liquidity in return. Powered by ApeBond, the dragon and ape communities have teamed up to bring this awesome product to Polygon DeFi 🤝 Are you a yield farmer looking to tap into some cool Polygon ecosystem projects? Then QuickSwap Bonds may just be the right fit for you! Partner Projects Offering QuickSwap Bonds Dogelon Mars Dogelon Mars is a doge-themed cryptocurrency and comic series inspired by Dogecoin. Dogelon is a Shiba Inu on a mission to bring humanity to Mars. 50% of the token supply was locked forever in a decentralised liquidity pool and the other 50% was donated to Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum. $ELON is the main token that powers the ecosystem. GENSO Meta GensoKishi Online Metaworld is the Web3 incarnation of the award-winning Nintendo Switch/PS4 game “Elemental Knights," where players explore a fantasy 3D virtual world. It merges a MMORPG game style with in-game ownership through NFTs. Users can create, buy, and sell skins, maps, weapons, and more as NFTs through the $MV token. PLANET IX Planet IX is an online NFT-strategy game where users embark on an exciting adventure within a digital earth. The aim is to restore this planet to what it once was: a more thriving and lush environment. $IX is the game's native utility token that lets users farm, earn, and trade. BlockWallet BlockWallet is a self-custodial Web3 wallet that highly focuses on user security. It supports all EVM chains, is open source, has built-in swaps and bridges, supports multiple hardware wallets, and much more. BlockWallet has its own $BLANK token, which allows users to invest in the project's future, receive rewards, special offers, and engage in unique events like the upcoming STAKING campaign. Forest Knight Forest Knight is a free-to-play, play-to-own turned-based RPG game on mobile devices that lets players battle against one another through PVP and PVE game styles in a virtual fantasy world while also collecting NFTs and other items. Its in-game economy is powered by the $KNIGHT token, where holders can receive special benefits and participate in governance. Yellow Yellow Duckies is a NFT trading card game that lets players collect, trade and evolve Ducklings NFTs! The game uses the DUCKIES token for utility but also for the upcoming Duckies Canary Network 👀🎁🪂 Orbs Orbs is an open, decentralised, and public blockchain infrastructure that's made possible through a secure network of permissionless validators using PoS consensus. They've already integrated several powerful products on the QuickSwap DEX, including Liquidity Hub and dTWAP/limit orders. $ORBS is the token that powers their ecosystem. Veloce Veloce is a large, decentralised gaming and sports media organisation that is made up of 6 brands, taking Web3 esports and racing to the next level. VEXT (or $VEXT) is the ecosystem's native currency that provides holders with perks and benefits in the ecosystem. Borderless.Money | BorderlessMoney.lens (🌸, 🌿) Borderless Money is a DeFi protocol that lets users contribute capital to social investments (UN sustainable goals) to participate in various social causes. The platform's native token is $BOM, which users can stake, participate in decentralised governance, and earn rewards. BitCone (CONE) BitCone is a decentralised community powered by the $CONE token, best known for its "Conemunity" on subreddits. Users can earn the token through airdrops and BitCone mining. yusril mahendra FireBot enhances returns with DeFi strategies and trading algorithms, offering tokenized investments on Polygon. Their $FBX token is backed by quantitative strategies to mitigate crypto market volatility.

QuickSwap 🐲 DragonFi 2.0

42,760 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

I just play it on repeat since yesterday: "Hello Pope Leo XIV, I'm Renzo, I'm six years old. I'd like to ask you a few questions." Renzo, a little a boy from the poor neighborhood of Barcelona, stole the show yesterday at St. Augustine's parish, a place where Pope Leo admitted he "feels at home." Renzo in the sweetest way ever asked those questions to the pope: Do you like soccer? When you were little, did you want to be Pope? Why are my mom and dad worried? Why does my dad have so many jobs? Why do bad things happen to some people and not to others? Whose fault is it? Why are there so many people living on the streets? Does no one see them? Does no one help them? How can we help if the world is so big? Does God want there to be poor and rich? Why are there so many lonely grandparents, if they are so important? And one last question ... Must we always forgive? What pope Leo answered the boy was really moving. "Regarding whether I like football, I confess that I play tennis and I enjoy it very much, but I also appreciate football; in fact, during my years as bishop in Peru, I liked to follow how some local teams were doing; and now, as Pope, I have also received football clubs and sports groups," the pope said, adding that "sport is important because it helps us grow up healthy in body and mind." He said that as World Cup unfolds, "many will be watching the matches. Football reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off alone, but a path we learn to travel together." "Whoever doesn't know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, hasn't yet understood the game. And whoever doesn't know how to live with others and for others hasn't yet understood life." Answering whether he wanted to be Pope when he was little, the pope said: "Well, Renzo, I don't think so. I don't think I ever thought about it." "But I can tell you something: from a young age, I felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn't yet know exactly how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I discovered that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of Saint Augustine." "But this isn't just true for me," he said. "Every child is a dream of God. You are too. God desires the happiness of all and wants us, from childhood and throughout our lives, to have a heart like that of children (cf. Mt 18:3): capable of trusting, full of kindness; he wants us to be his friends and not turn away from him. Therefore, more important than asking oneself whether one will be a priest, doctor, teacher, parent, or anything else, is asking oneself whether one wants to be a friend of Jesus. Because friendship with Jesus gives us joy, sets us free, and helps us to see, step by step, the vocation and the path that God has planned for each of us." Answering the point on injustices in the world, Pope Leo told the boy that "through the life of Jesus Christ, God shows us that, although there is suffering, he never abandons any of his children, because he has prepared for us an eternal joy where there will be no more sadness or pain. Let us have confidence, Jesus is with us, he helps us and accompanies us, and gives us strength to go through the difficult moments we may encounter in life." Stressing that grandparents play a crucial role in families, the pope said: "Let us not allow loneliness and abandonment to become normalized in the lives of older adults. That is a very sad thing. Let's have our hearts open to all of them." On forgiveness, he told Renzo and those gathered: "It does not mean forgetting by force, as if nothing had happened. Forgiveness means not letting hatred become the master of our hearts ... our willingness to forgive is a condition for the forgiveness we receive from God." Video: Vatican Media
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I just play it on repeat since yesterday: "Hello Pope Leo XIV, I'm Renzo, I'm six years old. I'd like to ask you a few questions." Renzo, a little a boy from the poor neighborhood of Barcelona, stole the show yesterday at St. Augustine's parish, a place where Pope Leo admitted he "feels at home." Renzo in the sweetest way ever asked those questions to the pope: Do you like soccer? When you were little, did you want to be Pope? Why are my mom and dad worried? Why does my dad have so many jobs? Why do bad things happen to some people and not to others? Whose fault is it? Why are there so many people living on the streets? Does no one see them? Does no one help them? How can we help if the world is so big? Does God want there to be poor and rich? Why are there so many lonely grandparents, if they are so important? And one last question ... Must we always forgive? What pope Leo answered the boy was really moving. "Regarding whether I like football, I confess that I play tennis and I enjoy it very much, but I also appreciate football; in fact, during my years as bishop in Peru, I liked to follow how some local teams were doing; and now, as Pope, I have also received football clubs and sports groups," the pope said, adding that "sport is important because it helps us grow up healthy in body and mind." He said that as World Cup unfolds, "many will be watching the matches. Football reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off alone, but a path we learn to travel together." "Whoever doesn't know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, hasn't yet understood the game. And whoever doesn't know how to live with others and for others hasn't yet understood life." Answering whether he wanted to be Pope when he was little, the pope said: "Well, Renzo, I don't think so. I don't think I ever thought about it." "But I can tell you something: from a young age, I felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn't yet know exactly how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I discovered that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of Saint Augustine." "But this isn't just true for me," he said. "Every child is a dream of God. You are too. God desires the happiness of all and wants us, from childhood and throughout our lives, to have a heart like that of children (cf. Mt 18:3): capable of trusting, full of kindness; he wants us to be his friends and not turn away from him. Therefore, more important than asking oneself whether one will be a priest, doctor, teacher, parent, or anything else, is asking oneself whether one wants to be a friend of Jesus. Because friendship with Jesus gives us joy, sets us free, and helps us to see, step by step, the vocation and the path that God has planned for each of us." Answering the point on injustices in the world, Pope Leo told the boy that "through the life of Jesus Christ, God shows us that, although there is suffering, he never abandons any of his children, because he has prepared for us an eternal joy where there will be no more sadness or pain. Let us have confidence, Jesus is with us, he helps us and accompanies us, and gives us strength to go through the difficult moments we may encounter in life." Stressing that grandparents play a crucial role in families, the pope said: "Let us not allow loneliness and abandonment to become normalized in the lives of older adults. That is a very sad thing. Let's have our hearts open to all of them." On forgiveness, he told Renzo and those gathered: "It does not mean forgetting by force, as if nothing had happened. Forgiveness means not letting hatred become the master of our hearts ... our willingness to forgive is a condition for the forgiveness we receive from God." Video: Vatican Media

Paulina Guzik

244,541 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

it's 3:14 am and we have finally picked the 32 people that will compete in s4 final 32. take a look: ai/ml: 1. Sharie -- sharie is building a tool to help you get workout + meal plans based on your fitness goals. 2. Dylan.AI -- dylan is building a journal app that turns your life into an rpg. 3. jai -- jai is making a tool that creates gamified flashcards. 4. Pavi -- pavi is building an app to monitor the progression of parkinson's disease. 5. naklecha -- naklecha is developing a tool to generate copyright-free ai music. 6. wei-wei -- wei wei is building a no-code tool that automates how you test your ui. 7. Prab Jayachandran -- prab is building an ai tool that detects disease in coral reefs faster. content: 8. °•j e a n n i e•° -- jeannie is a voice actor that brings characters to life. 9. Aren Jo -- aren jo promoting life through his content. 10. Hyejee Bae -- hyjee is creating an adventure story told through animatic videos. 11. Omar Waseem + Vishal Kolar -- omar and vishal are making a founder podcast that's not boring. 12. Rosier♟️☁️ | ENVTUBER -- rosier is making the first chapter in their manga series. 13. @mylenetu -- mylene is creating a youtube channel to inspire others to take unconventional paths in life. music: 14. mayv -- mayv is creating an electronic music ep. 15. Gypcy -- gypcy is writing heart felt music with an 80s vibe to end war. 16. @joyang_eth -- josh is writing, producing, and publishing a song per day. every single day. 17. @InouCosmos -- inou is producing ambient music tracks. 18. Mortal Koil -- mortal koil is producing songs for their post-apocalytpic heavy metal album. hardware: 19. -- hudza is making hydroponic kits for you to build a vertical farm at home. 20. Chris Samra -- chris and avery are building a wearable, hands-free, silent communicator. 21. virajcz -- viraj and his team are building a computer made of biological neurons. 22. Unmol Sharma -- they are creating an management platform for small-holder farmers. general software: 23. musashi -- harsh is building a tool to help people collect and share resources fast. 24. Max Prilutskiy + @belakhonya -- max and veronica are creating content usage analytics for notion pages & wikis. 25. Mattia -- mattia is developing a tool that generates launch tweets automatically when you ship new code. 26. Markeljan Sokoli -- mark is building an ai tool that writes and deploys smart contracts for you. gaming + d2c + non-profit: 27. @ai_billimarie -- billimarie is making a nonprofit that plants trees in the desert. 28. @maybeprithvi -- prithvi is creating a mobile game based on competitions seen on youtube. 29. derek -- building a competitive arena fighting game. 30. Fery Setiawan 🇵🇸 -- savitri is creating a sustainable wedding services. 31. Alex -- alex is making hoodies from natural materials that give you the feeling of comfort. 32. @gopuppacking -- michael is creating an ultralight compact sleeping quilt for dogs. there were a lot of projects that were extremely promising. we had to make many difficult decisions. but remember -- your season is not defined by whether or not you got into the final 32. not many choose to work on their own ideas. you did. be extremely proud of that. keep building. see you at 10:30am pt for the final stream of the season :)
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it's 3:14 am and we have finally picked the 32 people that will compete in s4 final 32. take a look: ai/ml: 1. Sharie -- sharie is building a tool to help you get workout + meal plans based on your fitness goals. 2. Dylan.AI -- dylan is building a journal app that turns your life into an rpg. 3. jai -- jai is making a tool that creates gamified flashcards. 4. Pavi -- pavi is building an app to monitor the progression of parkinson's disease. 5. naklecha -- naklecha is developing a tool to generate copyright-free ai music. 6. wei-wei -- wei wei is building a no-code tool that automates how you test your ui. 7. Prab Jayachandran -- prab is building an ai tool that detects disease in coral reefs faster. content: 8. °•j e a n n i e•° -- jeannie is a voice actor that brings characters to life. 9. Aren Jo -- aren jo promoting life through his content. 10. Hyejee Bae -- hyjee is creating an adventure story told through animatic videos. 11. Omar Waseem + Vishal Kolar -- omar and vishal are making a founder podcast that's not boring. 12. Rosier♟️☁️ | ENVTUBER -- rosier is making the first chapter in their manga series. 13. @mylenetu -- mylene is creating a youtube channel to inspire others to take unconventional paths in life. music: 14. mayv -- mayv is creating an electronic music ep. 15. Gypcy -- gypcy is writing heart felt music with an 80s vibe to end war. 16. @joyang_eth -- josh is writing, producing, and publishing a song per day. every single day. 17. @InouCosmos -- inou is producing ambient music tracks. 18. Mortal Koil -- mortal koil is producing songs for their post-apocalytpic heavy metal album. hardware: 19. -- hudza is making hydroponic kits for you to build a vertical farm at home. 20. Chris Samra -- chris and avery are building a wearable, hands-free, silent communicator. 21. virajcz -- viraj and his team are building a computer made of biological neurons. 22. Unmol Sharma -- they are creating an management platform for small-holder farmers. general software: 23. musashi -- harsh is building a tool to help people collect and share resources fast. 24. Max Prilutskiy + @belakhonya -- max and veronica are creating content usage analytics for notion pages & wikis. 25. Mattia -- mattia is developing a tool that generates launch tweets automatically when you ship new code. 26. Markeljan Sokoli -- mark is building an ai tool that writes and deploys smart contracts for you. gaming + d2c + non-profit: 27. @ai_billimarie -- billimarie is making a nonprofit that plants trees in the desert. 28. @maybeprithvi -- prithvi is creating a mobile game based on competitions seen on youtube. 29. derek -- building a competitive arena fighting game. 30. Fery Setiawan 🇵🇸 -- savitri is creating a sustainable wedding services. 31. Alex -- alex is making hoodies from natural materials that give you the feeling of comfort. 32. @gopuppacking -- michael is creating an ultralight compact sleeping quilt for dogs. there were a lot of projects that were extremely promising. we had to make many difficult decisions. but remember -- your season is not defined by whether or not you got into the final 32. not many choose to work on their own ideas. you did. be extremely proud of that. keep building. see you at 10:30am pt for the final stream of the season :)

buildspace

37,391 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

The rise of the disinformation-for-hire industry The emergence of a global, large-scale disinformation industry has privatised influence operations, granting states strategic reach with plausible deniability. A quiet revolution has taken place in the world of propaganda. Operations that used to be run by authoritarian governments and intelligence agencies are now outsourced to private firms that sell disinformation and deception as a service. From fake social-media armies to AI-driven smear campaigns, disinformation and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) have become a global business, giving authoritarian regimes new ways to influence others – and to deny everything. From state propaganda to disinformation for hire For decades, information operations were tightly controlled by states. The Soviet Union perfected the craft of dezinformatsiya; later, Russia institutionalised it through modern digital operations such as the Internet Research Agency (IRA)(opens in a new tab). But over the past decade, this model has commercialised. Disinformation and deception have become a for-profit service offered by companies with intelligence, military, or marketing backgrounds. These firms, operating around the world, sell complete FIMI campaign packages that include fake social-media campaigns, hacking, data leaks, and ‘narrative management’ in order to spread false and manipulated content in democratic countries. Outsourcing as a shield This outsourcing provides both efficiency and deniability. Authoritarian states are now actively trying to externalise information operations to private intermediaries, while shielding themselves from diplomatic and legal consequences. Through this model, malign actors can also experiment with risky tactics such as AI-generated content, hacking, or deepfakes – operations that would be politically or diplomatically explosive if carried out directly by state institutions. In doing so, they can target foreign populations through tailored influence campaigns while maintaining plausible deniability by claiming no connection to the private entities running them. Outsourcing also enables information laundering — hiding the true origin of disinformation by passing it through private firms, fake accounts, and proxy media. As these actors repeat and amplify the message, it begins to look organic and locally produced. This lets malign actors spread targeted narratives while denying any involvement. All this is the informational equivalent of using mercenaries: the client enjoys the results without bearing the blame. Team Jorge and the commercialisation of deception The 2023 Forbidden Stories investigation(opens in a new tab) into an entity called ‘Team Jorge’ exposed the inner workings of this new influence-for-hire ecosystem. The firm claimed to have interfered in 33 presidential elections, winning 27 of them. Its clients included political parties, corporations, and, allegedly, state-linked actors. At the heart of Team Jorge’s system was Advanced Impact Media Solutions (AIMS), software capable of creating and coordinating thousands of fake social-media accounts, complete with synthetic photos, biographies, and backstories. These avatars could be mobilised to flood debates, spread narratives, or harass opponents. Russia continues to be a major player in this outsourced ecosystem. Privately owned companies such as the Social Design Agency (SDA)(opens in a new tab) and Structura(opens in a new tab) now run large-scale influence operations that mirror, and in many ways replace, the functions of the old St. Petersburg troll factories. These firms manage covert online assets, push state-aligned narratives, and provide the Kremlin with an additional layer of deniability. Undercover journalists recorded the firm demonstrating hacking techniques, media infiltration, and the planting of fabricated news stories. The scale of these operations and their accessibility to paying clients revealed how disinformation has become a global commodity. Hybrid operations: where online meets offline Modern influence campaigns no longer live solely online but operate in the hybrid space between digital and physical realities. The Internet Research Agency (IRA)(opens in a new tab) demonstrated this during the 2016 US election when Russian operatives posing as American activists organised real-world rallies, paid participants, and coordinated online amplification around them. What began as meme warfare ended as physical mobilisation.(opens in a new tab) Today’s hybrid operations blend hacking(opens in a new tab), covertly funded local influencers(opens in a new tab), and covert media fronts. Campaign operators build credible-seeming news sites(opens in a new tab) and influencer personas(opens in a new tab) to insert tailored narratives into the public sphere. Once in circulation, these narratives mix with authentic content and spread across both digital and traditional media, making manipulation difficult to detect. Automation and AI: the new force multiplier The original troll-farm model – hundreds of young workers posting manually in shifts – is being replaced by AI-driven automation(opens in a new tab). Systems like Team Jorge’s AIMS, or newer tools powered by large language models, can now manage thousands of fake accounts and generate multilingual content tailored to target audiences in real time(opens in a new tab). AI allows campaigns that once required hundreds of people to be run by a handful of operators or even a single individual. What once took a troll farm and a whole building in St. Petersburg now takes a laptop. Asymmetrical information warfare The emergence of these influence-for-hire firms has created a new strategic imbalance – asymmetrical information warfare. In this asymmetry, autocracies enjoy maximum reach with minimal risk. At home, they are protected by censorship, control, and deniability. Democracies, however, are more exposed. Bound by transparency and law, they face maximum vulnerability with limited defences. This imbalance is not just political, but structural. Authoritarian regimes can use disinformation and AI tools to shape global narratives, influence elections abroad, and undermine trust while trying to avoid direct accountability. Democracies, meanwhile, must play defence on open networks designed for free expression. The stakes for democracy and the road ahead These operations are already reshaping political realities. Influence-for-hire firms have targeted elections in Africa, Europe, and Latin America(opens in a new tab). Disinformation campaigns amplify polarisation, delegitimise media institutions, and exploit social divisions to weaken democratic cohesion. The marketisation of disinformation risks creating a global grey zone where truth is optional and accountability elusive. As AI tools become cheaper and more capable, these operations will likely only grow in scale and sophistication. Recognising this asymmetry and responding with resilience and regulation is the only way to prevent truth itself from becoming a commodity.
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The rise of the disinformation-for-hire industry The emergence of a global, large-scale disinformation industry has privatised influence operations, granting states strategic reach with plausible deniability. A quiet revolution has taken place in the world of propaganda. Operations that used to be run by authoritarian governments and intelligence agencies are now outsourced to private firms that sell disinformation and deception as a service. From fake social-media armies to AI-driven smear campaigns, disinformation and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) have become a global business, giving authoritarian regimes new ways to influence others – and to deny everything. From state propaganda to disinformation for hire For decades, information operations were tightly controlled by states. The Soviet Union perfected the craft of dezinformatsiya; later, Russia institutionalised it through modern digital operations such as the Internet Research Agency (IRA)(opens in a new tab). But over the past decade, this model has commercialised. Disinformation and deception have become a for-profit service offered by companies with intelligence, military, or marketing backgrounds. These firms, operating around the world, sell complete FIMI campaign packages that include fake social-media campaigns, hacking, data leaks, and ‘narrative management’ in order to spread false and manipulated content in democratic countries. Outsourcing as a shield This outsourcing provides both efficiency and deniability. Authoritarian states are now actively trying to externalise information operations to private intermediaries, while shielding themselves from diplomatic and legal consequences. Through this model, malign actors can also experiment with risky tactics such as AI-generated content, hacking, or deepfakes – operations that would be politically or diplomatically explosive if carried out directly by state institutions. In doing so, they can target foreign populations through tailored influence campaigns while maintaining plausible deniability by claiming no connection to the private entities running them. Outsourcing also enables information laundering — hiding the true origin of disinformation by passing it through private firms, fake accounts, and proxy media. As these actors repeat and amplify the message, it begins to look organic and locally produced. This lets malign actors spread targeted narratives while denying any involvement. All this is the informational equivalent of using mercenaries: the client enjoys the results without bearing the blame. Team Jorge and the commercialisation of deception The 2023 Forbidden Stories investigation(opens in a new tab) into an entity called ‘Team Jorge’ exposed the inner workings of this new influence-for-hire ecosystem. The firm claimed to have interfered in 33 presidential elections, winning 27 of them. Its clients included political parties, corporations, and, allegedly, state-linked actors. At the heart of Team Jorge’s system was Advanced Impact Media Solutions (AIMS), software capable of creating and coordinating thousands of fake social-media accounts, complete with synthetic photos, biographies, and backstories. These avatars could be mobilised to flood debates, spread narratives, or harass opponents. Russia continues to be a major player in this outsourced ecosystem. Privately owned companies such as the Social Design Agency (SDA)(opens in a new tab) and Structura(opens in a new tab) now run large-scale influence operations that mirror, and in many ways replace, the functions of the old St. Petersburg troll factories. These firms manage covert online assets, push state-aligned narratives, and provide the Kremlin with an additional layer of deniability. Undercover journalists recorded the firm demonstrating hacking techniques, media infiltration, and the planting of fabricated news stories. The scale of these operations and their accessibility to paying clients revealed how disinformation has become a global commodity. Hybrid operations: where online meets offline Modern influence campaigns no longer live solely online but operate in the hybrid space between digital and physical realities. The Internet Research Agency (IRA)(opens in a new tab) demonstrated this during the 2016 US election when Russian operatives posing as American activists organised real-world rallies, paid participants, and coordinated online amplification around them. What began as meme warfare ended as physical mobilisation.(opens in a new tab) Today’s hybrid operations blend hacking(opens in a new tab), covertly funded local influencers(opens in a new tab), and covert media fronts. Campaign operators build credible-seeming news sites(opens in a new tab) and influencer personas(opens in a new tab) to insert tailored narratives into the public sphere. Once in circulation, these narratives mix with authentic content and spread across both digital and traditional media, making manipulation difficult to detect. Automation and AI: the new force multiplier The original troll-farm model – hundreds of young workers posting manually in shifts – is being replaced by AI-driven automation(opens in a new tab). Systems like Team Jorge’s AIMS, or newer tools powered by large language models, can now manage thousands of fake accounts and generate multilingual content tailored to target audiences in real time(opens in a new tab). AI allows campaigns that once required hundreds of people to be run by a handful of operators or even a single individual. What once took a troll farm and a whole building in St. Petersburg now takes a laptop. Asymmetrical information warfare The emergence of these influence-for-hire firms has created a new strategic imbalance – asymmetrical information warfare. In this asymmetry, autocracies enjoy maximum reach with minimal risk. At home, they are protected by censorship, control, and deniability. Democracies, however, are more exposed. Bound by transparency and law, they face maximum vulnerability with limited defences. This imbalance is not just political, but structural. Authoritarian regimes can use disinformation and AI tools to shape global narratives, influence elections abroad, and undermine trust while trying to avoid direct accountability. Democracies, meanwhile, must play defence on open networks designed for free expression. The stakes for democracy and the road ahead These operations are already reshaping political realities. Influence-for-hire firms have targeted elections in Africa, Europe, and Latin America(opens in a new tab). Disinformation campaigns amplify polarisation, delegitimise media institutions, and exploit social divisions to weaken democratic cohesion. The marketisation of disinformation risks creating a global grey zone where truth is optional and accountability elusive. As AI tools become cheaper and more capable, these operations will likely only grow in scale and sophistication. Recognising this asymmetry and responding with resilience and regulation is the only way to prevent truth itself from becoming a commodity.

EUvsDisinfo

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In 2005, a 21-year-old Mark Zuckerberg sat down for an interview at Stanford. Facebook was 18 months old. He said: "Every day we do more than 230 million pageviews. In like two weeks we're gonna pass Google in pageviews." He was right. This 60 minute interview shows how he thought about building before anyone knew what Facebook would become: The company started because Harvard didn't have a Facebook. A directory where you could look people up. "I did two years at Harvard. During my sophomore year I decided that Harvard needed a facebook. It didn't have one. So I made it." He wrote the first version in a couple of weeks. Maybe less. "By the time I was done throwing together the site, I had no idea how successful it would end up being. I was actually thinking that after like a week I had a different idea I wanted to do. I was gonna scrap it and not do this." He almost killed Facebook to build something else. Then people started signing up. A couple hundred at first. Then requests from other schools. Then it spread. His roommate Dustin wanted to help but couldn't program. "He went home for the weekend, bought the book Perl for Dummies, came back and said 'Alright, I'm ready.' I'm like dude, the site's not written in Perl." But Dustin helped anyway. For most of the first year, it was just a few guys working around a kitchen table. They came out to Palo Alto for the summer because "this was a place that a lot of startups had been from" and because Mark had friends working at EA he wanted to hang out with. He never went back to school. By the time he was supposed to return, they had hundreds of thousands of users and Peter Thiel had put in the first investment. "That sort of made my parents think okay, this is something that could be cool. When I first started doing it they were like, what possible value could this have for you?" The metrics were already insane. 70% of users came back every single day. 85% weekly. 93% monthly. "That's really important for us because we're not trying to create something that people use for a specific purpose. This is a utility that people can use to find relevant information socially." 5.5 billion pageviews in September 2005. The 10th most visited website on the internet. More than a million dollars a month in revenue. "And we're not even doing anything cool yet." He refused to call it a social network. "I don't really call it a social network. I refer to it as an online directory. Saying that something is a social network is like saying that a company that has factories is in the assembly line space." When asked why Friendster and others plateaued, he had one answer: utility. "Making the site useful and keeping the utility there is the thing I focus on most. A lot of the reason why some of them failed is the horizontal social network piece works really well at growing stuff. That provides a technical challenge as user bases scale up really quickly." Friendster couldn't keep up with the technical load. Facebook could. They were also doing things with data that no one else was doing. "We compute a percentage of realness that a person is. If they fall below a threshold, they're done." "This is something my friends and I like to do. We just go through and see how real certain people are who we know are actually real people. 'Well, you're only 75% real.'" They could predict relationships. "One of the things my friend and I were messing around with the other night was seeing if we could use the information we had to compute who we thought were gonna be in relationships. We tested this about a week later. We had over a 1/3 chance of predicting whether two people were gonna be in a relationship a week from now." On hiring, he only cared about two things. "Number one is raw intelligence. If you find someone whose raw intelligence exceeds theirs but has ten years less experience, they can probably adapt and learn way quicker. Within a very short amount of time they can do a lot of things that person may never be able to do." "The second is alignment with what we're trying to do. People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, they're not gonna really work hard." "The best people I've hired so far have been people who didn't really have that much engineering experience. I hired a couple of electrical engineers out of Stanford to do programming stuff. They had very little programming experience going in. But really smart. Really willing to go at it." "The guy who just wrote photos was one of those guys. If you're willing to just go and do whatever it takes to get photos out, you're probably more valuable than someone who's just a career software engineer." When asked about exit strategy, he shut it down. "I spend my time thinking about how to build this, not how to exit. What we're doing is more interesting than what anyone else is doing. This is just a cool thing to be doing. I don't spend time thinking about that." His investor Jim Breyer added: "I actually don't either. We're long-term oriented investors." The only tension between them was whether to bring in an experienced CEO. "They look at this investment and say we have this 21-year-old kid running it. We should at least try to complement him with someone who has more experience running a business. Honestly, that's something I'm a little afraid of. Even though it's probably really good." "How quickly do you want to transition from being in a dorm room to being around your kitchen table to then hiring people and going into an office to having someone run the company like an experienced company leader? It's not necessarily something you just do overnight. You want to get there, but patience is somewhat important." He never hired that outside CEO. This 60 minute interview will teach you more about building, hiring, and thinking long-term than every startup biography combined. Bookmark & give it 60 minutes this weekend, no matter what.
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In 2005, a 21-year-old Mark Zuckerberg sat down for an interview at Stanford. Facebook was 18 months old. He said: "Every day we do more than 230 million pageviews. In like two weeks we're gonna pass Google in pageviews." He was right. This 60 minute interview shows how he thought about building before anyone knew what Facebook would become: The company started because Harvard didn't have a Facebook. A directory where you could look people up. "I did two years at Harvard. During my sophomore year I decided that Harvard needed a facebook. It didn't have one. So I made it." He wrote the first version in a couple of weeks. Maybe less. "By the time I was done throwing together the site, I had no idea how successful it would end up being. I was actually thinking that after like a week I had a different idea I wanted to do. I was gonna scrap it and not do this." He almost killed Facebook to build something else. Then people started signing up. A couple hundred at first. Then requests from other schools. Then it spread. His roommate Dustin wanted to help but couldn't program. "He went home for the weekend, bought the book Perl for Dummies, came back and said 'Alright, I'm ready.' I'm like dude, the site's not written in Perl." But Dustin helped anyway. For most of the first year, it was just a few guys working around a kitchen table. They came out to Palo Alto for the summer because "this was a place that a lot of startups had been from" and because Mark had friends working at EA he wanted to hang out with. He never went back to school. By the time he was supposed to return, they had hundreds of thousands of users and Peter Thiel had put in the first investment. "That sort of made my parents think okay, this is something that could be cool. When I first started doing it they were like, what possible value could this have for you?" The metrics were already insane. 70% of users came back every single day. 85% weekly. 93% monthly. "That's really important for us because we're not trying to create something that people use for a specific purpose. This is a utility that people can use to find relevant information socially." 5.5 billion pageviews in September 2005. The 10th most visited website on the internet. More than a million dollars a month in revenue. "And we're not even doing anything cool yet." He refused to call it a social network. "I don't really call it a social network. I refer to it as an online directory. Saying that something is a social network is like saying that a company that has factories is in the assembly line space." When asked why Friendster and others plateaued, he had one answer: utility. "Making the site useful and keeping the utility there is the thing I focus on most. A lot of the reason why some of them failed is the horizontal social network piece works really well at growing stuff. That provides a technical challenge as user bases scale up really quickly." Friendster couldn't keep up with the technical load. Facebook could. They were also doing things with data that no one else was doing. "We compute a percentage of realness that a person is. If they fall below a threshold, they're done." "This is something my friends and I like to do. We just go through and see how real certain people are who we know are actually real people. 'Well, you're only 75% real.'" They could predict relationships. "One of the things my friend and I were messing around with the other night was seeing if we could use the information we had to compute who we thought were gonna be in relationships. We tested this about a week later. We had over a 1/3 chance of predicting whether two people were gonna be in a relationship a week from now." On hiring, he only cared about two things. "Number one is raw intelligence. If you find someone whose raw intelligence exceeds theirs but has ten years less experience, they can probably adapt and learn way quicker. Within a very short amount of time they can do a lot of things that person may never be able to do." "The second is alignment with what we're trying to do. People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don't really believe in it, they're not gonna really work hard." "The best people I've hired so far have been people who didn't really have that much engineering experience. I hired a couple of electrical engineers out of Stanford to do programming stuff. They had very little programming experience going in. But really smart. Really willing to go at it." "The guy who just wrote photos was one of those guys. If you're willing to just go and do whatever it takes to get photos out, you're probably more valuable than someone who's just a career software engineer." When asked about exit strategy, he shut it down. "I spend my time thinking about how to build this, not how to exit. What we're doing is more interesting than what anyone else is doing. This is just a cool thing to be doing. I don't spend time thinking about that." His investor Jim Breyer added: "I actually don't either. We're long-term oriented investors." The only tension between them was whether to bring in an experienced CEO. "They look at this investment and say we have this 21-year-old kid running it. We should at least try to complement him with someone who has more experience running a business. Honestly, that's something I'm a little afraid of. Even though it's probably really good." "How quickly do you want to transition from being in a dorm room to being around your kitchen table to then hiring people and going into an office to having someone run the company like an experienced company leader? It's not necessarily something you just do overnight. You want to get there, but patience is somewhat important." He never hired that outside CEO. This 60 minute interview will teach you more about building, hiring, and thinking long-term than every startup biography combined. Bookmark & give it 60 minutes this weekend, no matter what.

Jaynit

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