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Marc Andreessen: Revolutionary technologies were often viewed as “trivialities” or “jokes” “If you read history, the great innovations of the past are now well understood as being very important. In almost every case, they were not widely understood as such at the time. In fact, I would assert that... they were often actually viewed as trivialities or jokes.” He gives three examples: 1. The telephone. “When Thomas Edison was first working on the telephone, the assumption of the use case motivating his early work was the idea that telegraph operators needed to be able to talk to each other. It was considered implausible that you would have a system that would let any ordinary person pick up the telephone and talk to another person - that was clearly impossible… Completely missing the larger opportunity.” 2. The Internet. “I have personal experience with this one. The Internet was laughed at. It was heaped with scorn from 1993 to 1997-98. In fact, those of you who were in the industry at the time will remember the New York Times had a reporter on staff named Peter Lewis… I’m convinced he was specifically hired by the editors to just write negative stories about the Internet. It was all he did, and it was always the Internet was never going to be a consumer medium. The Internet is not nearly as big as these people think. Nobody is ever going to trust the internet for e-commerce.” 3. The car. “The car was absolutely viewed as a triviality and a toy when it first emerged. In fact, J.P. Morgan himself refused to invest in Ford Motor Company with the response that it’s just a toy for rich people, which is in fact what it was at the time. If you had one of the first cars, you had to be a rich person. You had to have a driver. You often actually had to also have a stoker with your early cars to keep the engine going. And then you also had to travel with a full-time mechanic because the thing would break down every three miles.” Marc concludes: “The great innovations of the present, I believe, are virtually guaranteed to be viewed as trivial and to be viewed as jokes. I think history 50 to 100 years from now will enshroud them in legend. In our time, they won’t be recognized as such. Of course, in the future, when they become legends, our descendants will themselves have their own trivial innovations to laugh at.” Video source: Milken Institute (2013)show more

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From Dan Lorenc on the malware attack that almost took down the entire internet last year: “There’s a popular compression library that’s used in almost every piece of software. And it had been maintained by one person in his spare time for the last 20 years. And then a couple years ago, somebody just decided to start helping him. They jumped in, fixed a bunch of bugs, and did a lot of great work. And then that first person got tired of working on it. So he handed the whole project over to this other person. It turned out that other person was just a pseudonym and was not a real person. And within six months of getting control of the project, they had put in a carefully orchestrated set of malware that was really hard to detect and no one noticed. And because it was so widely used, the exploit would've basically given that person remote access to any computer running that piece of software, which was basically everything connected to the Internet. But because it was open source and the code was transparent, some random engineer just happened to be running some benchmarks on a weekend. And he noticed that program was a little bit slower than it used to be, and that it was making a weird cryptographic operation to check something. And right before this thing got widely deployed across every device, he dug in, and discovered that there was a backdoor put in. This was the closest thing to a full-blown internet crisis that we’ve ever had. And they still have no idea who did it. It was just an anonymous email account. No one ever traced it back to an individual. And that's the long game. This person spent years just doing good work and earning the communities trust.”

From Dan Lorenc on the malware attack that almost took down the entire internet last year: “There’s a popular compression library that’s used in almost every piece of software. And it had been maintained by one person in his spare time for the last 20 years. And then a couple years ago, somebody just decided to start helping him. They jumped in, fixed a bunch of bugs, and did a lot of great work. And then that first person got tired of working on it. So he handed the whole project over to this other person. It turned out that other person was just a pseudonym and was not a real person. And within six months of getting control of the project, they had put in a carefully orchestrated set of malware that was really hard to detect and no one noticed. And because it was so widely used, the exploit would've basically given that person remote access to any computer running that piece of software, which was basically everything connected to the Internet. But because it was open source and the code was transparent, some random engineer just happened to be running some benchmarks on a weekend. And he noticed that program was a little bit slower than it used to be, and that it was making a weird cryptographic operation to check something. And right before this thing got widely deployed across every device, he dug in, and discovered that there was a backdoor put in. This was the closest thing to a full-blown internet crisis that we’ve ever had. And they still have no idea who did it. It was just an anonymous email account. No one ever traced it back to an individual. And that's the long game. This person spent years just doing good work and earning the communities trust.”

The Peel

47,683 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

ollie was asked who of the veterans on the grid would be a good mentor to rookies and the host suggested carlos ollie: “i rate him very, very highly. i mean, when i was a reserve driver with ferrari and i was listening in on all the debriefs and the detail and the way he's able to describe what he feels in the car is incredible. because it's one thing feeling it and often i was finding, okay, i'm feeling the same thing as this guy or esteban, for example, but carlos was able to describe it to the engineers in a way that they could improve the car. i think that's such an important quality to have.”

ollie was asked who of the veterans on the grid would be a good mentor to rookies and the host suggested carlos ollie: “i rate him very, very highly. i mean, when i was a reserve driver with ferrari and i was listening in on all the debriefs and the detail and the way he's able to describe what he feels in the car is incredible. because it's one thing feeling it and often i was finding, okay, i'm feeling the same thing as this guy or esteban, for example, but carlos was able to describe it to the engineers in a way that they could improve the car. i think that's such an important quality to have.”

yoyo 🦄

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.Bari Weiss in her CBS Mornings debut, promoting her town hall tomorrow with Erika Kirk and taking aim at those who celebrated Charlie’s assassination and the conspiracy theorists claiming she had something to do it... “I think Erika Kirk is a victim of what could be a very, very disturbing version of America. In other words, her husband was speaking on a college campus. Whether you agreed with him or not, he was practicing the most fundamental of American rights, he was trying to persuade people with words and then he got a bullet to his neck as he was speaking to someone that disagreed with him. Someone, by the way, who was in the audience that night. In the days and weeks that followed, the number of people in this country and not just lunatics on the internet hiding behind anonymous accounts, but prominent people justified his death with the idea that words are violence rather than violence being violence signifies something quite alarming. The idea that he somehow had it coming because people disagreed with him.” “The second thing is that in — he was murdered three months ago. If you go on the internet and frankly it is leapt beyond the internet into real life and you talk to many seemingly sane people, they do not believe that the 22-year-old named Tyler Robinson that has been arrested and charged with his murder is the actual murderer. “They believe any number of theories. They believe Erika Kirk was his Mossad handler and he was killed by a foreign government. They believe she was tracked by Egyptian planes. They believe that the rings on her hand are signs of illuminati. The theories themselves are absurd. What matters is that because — she speaks about this in the interview, the brain rot that social media is allowing to spread, the way that it is detaching us from humanity, from our ability to talk to one another and our ability to discern the truth from just out and out lies is something that is incredibly important as a theme, I think. So, she was able to speak to both of those things in a way that’s incredibly compelling.”

.Bari Weiss in her CBS Mornings debut, promoting her town hall tomorrow with Erika Kirk and taking aim at those who celebrated Charlie’s assassination and the conspiracy theorists claiming she had something to do it... “I think Erika Kirk is a victim of what could be a very, very disturbing version of America. In other words, her husband was speaking on a college campus. Whether you agreed with him or not, he was practicing the most fundamental of American rights, he was trying to persuade people with words and then he got a bullet to his neck as he was speaking to someone that disagreed with him. Someone, by the way, who was in the audience that night. In the days and weeks that followed, the number of people in this country and not just lunatics on the internet hiding behind anonymous accounts, but prominent people justified his death with the idea that words are violence rather than violence being violence signifies something quite alarming. The idea that he somehow had it coming because people disagreed with him.” “The second thing is that in — he was murdered three months ago. If you go on the internet and frankly it is leapt beyond the internet into real life and you talk to many seemingly sane people, they do not believe that the 22-year-old named Tyler Robinson that has been arrested and charged with his murder is the actual murderer. “They believe any number of theories. They believe Erika Kirk was his Mossad handler and he was killed by a foreign government. They believe she was tracked by Egyptian planes. They believe that the rings on her hand are signs of illuminati. The theories themselves are absurd. What matters is that because — she speaks about this in the interview, the brain rot that social media is allowing to spread, the way that it is detaching us from humanity, from our ability to talk to one another and our ability to discern the truth from just out and out lies is something that is incredibly important as a theme, I think. So, she was able to speak to both of those things in a way that’s incredibly compelling.”

Curtis Houck

78,679 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

NEW: Trump says he wants to be remembered as the man who saved America. Lara Trump: “When history looks back on this time in our country, when history looks back on you, how would you like to be remembered?” Trump: “A good person but a person that saved our country.” “I really believed our country was going down for the fall. I don't know if it ever could have come back.” “It was very close to the edge.” “I really would like to be known as the man that saved our country.”

NEW: Trump says he wants to be remembered as the man who saved America. Lara Trump: “When history looks back on this time in our country, when history looks back on you, how would you like to be remembered?” Trump: “A good person but a person that saved our country.” “I really believed our country was going down for the fall. I don't know if it ever could have come back.” “It was very close to the edge.” “I really would like to be known as the man that saved our country.”

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

115,465 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Elon Musk on raising capital: “You have to show investors that you’re all in” “Tesla almost died in 2008,” Elon explains. “The recession was particularly difficult for car companies, and in the summer of 2008 we had to raise a big funding round. But because of the collapse in the financial system, that funding round didn’t happen and we had to piece together money to keep the company going from myself and existing investors. We were able to complete a financing round that was just barely enough to keep the company going, and we closed it on the last hour of the last day that it was possible to do so. It was Christmas Eve 2008 at 6pm . . . and we would have run out of money a few days after Christmas.” Elon continues: “So while things are going really well these days, I think it’s always important to remember that when you’re creating a company, there are very dark times and it’s about getting through those dark times. That’s the difference between success and failure.” He offers the following advice to aspiring founders: “A company is a group of people gathered together to create a product or service. That’s really all a company is. So you have to really believe in what you’re creating and know in your heart and mind that this is something that matters and that the world ought to have.” Believing whole-heartedly in what your building is especially important for raising capital, Elon argues: “I think it’s important to show investors that you’re all in. For example with Tesla, the fact that I invested all the money I had and was all in — I literally had to borrow money from friends to pay rent in 2008 — made a huge difference to investors and convinced them to invest in Tesla at the same time that GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt. I think you have to show them that you really care, that you’ve got skin in the game, and that you’ve given it everything you’ve got. Then the other people at the company will follow suit, as will investors. I did that at both SpaceX and Tesla and think that’s really fundamental.” Elon also urges founders to only hire people who are passionate about what you’re building: “When you hire people, what you’re really trying to do is convince people to join you in the endeavor. You should hire people who are also passionate about what you’re doing . . . they need to really care about what they’re doing. Then they will stay during the dark times.” Source: Montana Jobs Summit (Nov 2013)

Elon Musk on raising capital: “You have to show investors that you’re all in” “Tesla almost died in 2008,” Elon explains. “The recession was particularly difficult for car companies, and in the summer of 2008 we had to raise a big funding round. But because of the collapse in the financial system, that funding round didn’t happen and we had to piece together money to keep the company going from myself and existing investors. We were able to complete a financing round that was just barely enough to keep the company going, and we closed it on the last hour of the last day that it was possible to do so. It was Christmas Eve 2008 at 6pm . . . and we would have run out of money a few days after Christmas.” Elon continues: “So while things are going really well these days, I think it’s always important to remember that when you’re creating a company, there are very dark times and it’s about getting through those dark times. That’s the difference between success and failure.” He offers the following advice to aspiring founders: “A company is a group of people gathered together to create a product or service. That’s really all a company is. So you have to really believe in what you’re creating and know in your heart and mind that this is something that matters and that the world ought to have.” Believing whole-heartedly in what your building is especially important for raising capital, Elon argues: “I think it’s important to show investors that you’re all in. For example with Tesla, the fact that I invested all the money I had and was all in — I literally had to borrow money from friends to pay rent in 2008 — made a huge difference to investors and convinced them to invest in Tesla at the same time that GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt. I think you have to show them that you really care, that you’ve got skin in the game, and that you’ve given it everything you’ve got. Then the other people at the company will follow suit, as will investors. I did that at both SpaceX and Tesla and think that’s really fundamental.” Elon also urges founders to only hire people who are passionate about what you’re building: “When you hire people, what you’re really trying to do is convince people to join you in the endeavor. You should hire people who are also passionate about what you’re doing . . . they need to really care about what they’re doing. Then they will stay during the dark times.” Source: Montana Jobs Summit (Nov 2013)

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Prince Andrew is “in torment” this Christmas because his name will likely be released in the new year in the list of 170 Epstein associates. Here is Prince Andrew failing miserably while trying to defend himself. “There's a slight problem with, with, with, with, with the sweating. Um, because, uh, I, I, I have a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don't sweat,” he said in 2019. “I didn't sweat at the time, and that was, oh, actually, yes, I didn't sweat at the time because I, um, had, had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands war when I was shot at. Uh, and I simply, it, it was, it was, it was almost impossible for me to, to, to sweat.” This is what a guilty person looks and sounds like.

Prince Andrew is “in torment” this Christmas because his name will likely be released in the new year in the list of 170 Epstein associates. Here is Prince Andrew failing miserably while trying to defend himself. “There's a slight problem with, with, with, with, with the sweating. Um, because, uh, I, I, I have a peculiar medical condition, which is that I don't sweat,” he said in 2019. “I didn't sweat at the time, and that was, oh, actually, yes, I didn't sweat at the time because I, um, had, had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands war when I was shot at. Uh, and I simply, it, it was, it was, it was almost impossible for me to, to, to sweat.” This is what a guilty person looks and sounds like.

Collin Rugg

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Marissa Mayer on scaling Google and the internal black market CEO Eric Schmidt created for new hires “One of the things that [former Google CEO Eric Schmidt] talked about a lot was that at every order of magnitude, you should expect every process to break—and you should expect to have to completely reinvent it. It’s very different to deal with tens of people versus hundreds of people versus thousands of people” Marissa shares a story of how one time Eric reinvented Google’s hiring process in a way that initially frustrated everyone: “We had closed the year at about 200 people, and we had a plan to double the size of the company over the coming year. Eric showed up in March, looked at the plan, and said: ‘there’s just no way you guys are going to be able to double the number of employees and keep the quality and culture the way you want it to be.’” Eric then told the company that he would let them collectively hire 50 people that year—versus the 200 they were planning on hiring. And to enforce this, he created 50 laminated dollar bills with Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s faces on them and distributed them to Google’s VPs. Every new hire that year would require one “Larry & Sergey” bill. Naturally, a black market for these “Larrys & Sergeys” developed, and as Marissa describes, it became surprisingly efficient: “What would happen is the Head of Sales would have one and he would really need a new feature to make a sale. So he would [say to the engineer]: ‘look, I’m going to give you this Larry & Sergey but you have to promise you’re going to use it to hire someone who is going to build this feature to secure this revenue.’” She continues: “As painful as it was because there was way too much work to slow down our hiring like this, [the new process] was actually a really good moment for the company because it made us be really thoughtful about how we were scaling and where we were putting our resources. We had to be that much more thoughtful about what to prioritize and where the opportunities were. Yes, hypergrowth is really fun, but you also need to realize that you want that hypergrowth to happen in terms of users and revenue—and not necessarily in terms of the size of the company.”

Marissa Mayer on scaling Google and the internal black market CEO Eric Schmidt created for new hires “One of the things that [former Google CEO Eric Schmidt] talked about a lot was that at every order of magnitude, you should expect every process to break—and you should expect to have to completely reinvent it. It’s very different to deal with tens of people versus hundreds of people versus thousands of people” Marissa shares a story of how one time Eric reinvented Google’s hiring process in a way that initially frustrated everyone: “We had closed the year at about 200 people, and we had a plan to double the size of the company over the coming year. Eric showed up in March, looked at the plan, and said: ‘there’s just no way you guys are going to be able to double the number of employees and keep the quality and culture the way you want it to be.’” Eric then told the company that he would let them collectively hire 50 people that year—versus the 200 they were planning on hiring. And to enforce this, he created 50 laminated dollar bills with Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s faces on them and distributed them to Google’s VPs. Every new hire that year would require one “Larry & Sergey” bill. Naturally, a black market for these “Larrys & Sergeys” developed, and as Marissa describes, it became surprisingly efficient: “What would happen is the Head of Sales would have one and he would really need a new feature to make a sale. So he would [say to the engineer]: ‘look, I’m going to give you this Larry & Sergey but you have to promise you’re going to use it to hire someone who is going to build this feature to secure this revenue.’” She continues: “As painful as it was because there was way too much work to slow down our hiring like this, [the new process] was actually a really good moment for the company because it made us be really thoughtful about how we were scaling and where we were putting our resources. We had to be that much more thoughtful about what to prioritize and where the opportunities were. Yes, hypergrowth is really fun, but you also need to realize that you want that hypergrowth to happen in terms of users and revenue—and not necessarily in terms of the size of the company.”

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162,101 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Marc Andreessen on what made Steve Jobs great “There’s basically two stories about Steve you hear. One is that he was a saint and perfect in all regards, which was somewhat true. The other story that you hear is he was a screaming lunatic and would just run around, yell at people in elevators, fire people in meetings, and all these awful, horrible things… I think the reality was somewhere in the middle.” Marc continues: “At least what I saw — and what I’ve heard from people who worked with him for a very long time — was he was absolutely intolerant of anything less than first class work. If you brought him first class work, and you were top in your field, super diligent, on top of everything, had all the details figured out, and knew what you were doing, he was the best manager you were ever going to work with and the best CEO you were ever going to work with. And the thing that comes up from people who worked with him closely was, ‘I did the best work of my life working for him.’ Part of that is because he really appreciated and understood the quality of great work. And the other part was he didn’t tolerate anything less than that, which meant that everybody around you also hit that bar.” People forget though that Steve matured a lot along the way too. He had failures like the Lisa, which came before the Macintosh, and of course, he was fired before coming back to Apple 12 years later. “He learned a lot from the failures,” Marc explains. “And now everyone has forgotten about the failures, but you can read about them on Wikipedia.” Marc believes it was the 12 years he spent building NeXT and Pixar where Steve learned to be a great CEO before coming back to Apple: “People who knew him better than I did said he learned how to be a great CEO, not at Apple, but at NeXT, because he spent 12 years doing it the hard way where he wasn’t being showered with praise. He didn’t have the magic touch. The product fundamentally didn’t take. He had to pivot.” Marc tells a great story of Steve insisting on the NeXT computer being a perfect cube even though it would double the cost. He got his cube, but it was slow, expensive, and completely flopped: “Nobody wanted it. He pivoted the company to software. Nobody wanted the software… Anyway, the point is that was really hard… He had to try to figure out how to optimize it the hard way and retain a team through basically 12 years of failure.” Marc concludes: “People say he had this incredible growth and innovation skillset from Apple phase one. And then he had an incredible management skillset from the sort of wilderness years. And so by the time he came back to Apple in 1997 he at that point a great CEO, but maybe he wouldn’t have ever become the Steve Jobs that we know had he not gone through the hard period.” Video source: a16z speedrun 🧊 (2025)

Marc Andreessen on what made Steve Jobs great “There’s basically two stories about Steve you hear. One is that he was a saint and perfect in all regards, which was somewhat true. The other story that you hear is he was a screaming lunatic and would just run around, yell at people in elevators, fire people in meetings, and all these awful, horrible things… I think the reality was somewhere in the middle.” Marc continues: “At least what I saw — and what I’ve heard from people who worked with him for a very long time — was he was absolutely intolerant of anything less than first class work. If you brought him first class work, and you were top in your field, super diligent, on top of everything, had all the details figured out, and knew what you were doing, he was the best manager you were ever going to work with and the best CEO you were ever going to work with. And the thing that comes up from people who worked with him closely was, ‘I did the best work of my life working for him.’ Part of that is because he really appreciated and understood the quality of great work. And the other part was he didn’t tolerate anything less than that, which meant that everybody around you also hit that bar.” People forget though that Steve matured a lot along the way too. He had failures like the Lisa, which came before the Macintosh, and of course, he was fired before coming back to Apple 12 years later. “He learned a lot from the failures,” Marc explains. “And now everyone has forgotten about the failures, but you can read about them on Wikipedia.” Marc believes it was the 12 years he spent building NeXT and Pixar where Steve learned to be a great CEO before coming back to Apple: “People who knew him better than I did said he learned how to be a great CEO, not at Apple, but at NeXT, because he spent 12 years doing it the hard way where he wasn’t being showered with praise. He didn’t have the magic touch. The product fundamentally didn’t take. He had to pivot.” Marc tells a great story of Steve insisting on the NeXT computer being a perfect cube even though it would double the cost. He got his cube, but it was slow, expensive, and completely flopped: “Nobody wanted it. He pivoted the company to software. Nobody wanted the software… Anyway, the point is that was really hard… He had to try to figure out how to optimize it the hard way and retain a team through basically 12 years of failure.” Marc concludes: “People say he had this incredible growth and innovation skillset from Apple phase one. And then he had an incredible management skillset from the sort of wilderness years. And so by the time he came back to Apple in 1997 he at that point a great CEO, but maybe he wouldn’t have ever become the Steve Jobs that we know had he not gone through the hard period.” Video source: a16z speedrun 🧊 (2025)

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Why Elon didn't want to be CEO: "[Elon] is at core, an engineer and a product guy. He has this great line where he said: "I realized you couldn't be fully in control of the product unless you were also in control of the company." He says he made a moral error, early in Tesla, where he was trying to have his cake and eat it too. He wanted to control the company without running the company. And that was the 2002 to 2008 era, where Tesla was just off to a really messy start. He was providing the funding. He was chairman of the board. But Martin Eberhard was CEO. Eventually, when Tesla was on the verge of death in 2008....Elon was pushed into the position of: "I have to be CEO. I don't want to be. It comes with a lot of chores. It comes with a lot of responsibilities. But if I want this company to be successful, I have to fully internalize and take responsibility for it." And that's what he did, even though he was also in the same position at SpaceX. The fact that these companies are improbable, iconic, and that he funded and led them both in parallel...it's like running a two minute mile twice at the same time. It is such a higher degree of difficulty than most people can conceive of, and the fact that it worked is still unbelievable."

Why Elon didn't want to be CEO: "[Elon] is at core, an engineer and a product guy. He has this great line where he said: "I realized you couldn't be fully in control of the product unless you were also in control of the company." He says he made a moral error, early in Tesla, where he was trying to have his cake and eat it too. He wanted to control the company without running the company. And that was the 2002 to 2008 era, where Tesla was just off to a really messy start. He was providing the funding. He was chairman of the board. But Martin Eberhard was CEO. Eventually, when Tesla was on the verge of death in 2008....Elon was pushed into the position of: "I have to be CEO. I don't want to be. It comes with a lot of chores. It comes with a lot of responsibilities. But if I want this company to be successful, I have to fully internalize and take responsibility for it." And that's what he did, even though he was also in the same position at SpaceX. The fact that these companies are improbable, iconic, and that he funded and led them both in parallel...it's like running a two minute mile twice at the same time. It is such a higher degree of difficulty than most people can conceive of, and the fact that it worked is still unbelievable."

Ti Morse

47,497 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

Mr. Tino goes on to say “All of my relationships have been consensual with people of a similar age to me at the time.” Implying that 3 year olds are able to consent. This is not the first time we have seen him give 3 year olds more power than they actually have. He once claim that he had to leave the bathroom because a three year-old girl was a threat to him as a trans person. That he would be accused of something being seen with her. He was the victim. The 3 year old was the danger. I believe both his Reddit comment and this video our fantasy. I don’t think they happened.

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Mr. Tino goes on to say “All of my relationships have been consensual with people of a similar age to me at the time.” Implying that 3 year olds are able to consent. This is not the first time we have seen him give 3 year olds more power than they actually have. He once claim that he had to leave the bathroom because a three year-old girl was a threat to him as a trans person. That he would be accused of something being seen with her. He was the victim. The 3 year old was the danger. I believe both his Reddit comment and this video our fantasy. I don’t think they happened.

Mattie Watkins

482,244 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

I remember taking a trip to Florida in my teens. We were sightseeing , new to the area. I was just enjoying the sun and the warm weather for once, I didn’t expect to see anything out of the ordinary. It finally hit me as we were enjoying a drink on the water, we see what looks like a floating log. Our friend who owned the boat said to keep our eyes open and don’t freak out, as long as we were in the boat we were fine. Just hearing that alone was almost panic inducing because he didn’t tell us what we were supposed to be careful of. When the “log drifted under the water, I finally understood what it was that we were looking at. Our friend had us piled in a boat on water infested with these gators. Being from up north, we didn’t see much of this. It made me believe I was in my own movie but I was going to be okay, I thought to myself if it was truly dangerous, our friend wouldn’t have brought us out there right? I stayed calm though, I never knew you could fish in areas that had gators, I assumed they would always go after your bait. All in all I would do it again, but I would never have taken anyone in the water and not tell them about the inhabitants, just in case they have a real phobia. Like I would never take my kids in there in case one panics and falls in. But looking back I’m thinking he may have been in the wrong for taking us there, would you take your friends in an area infested with these creatures not knowing? It’s a little messed up in my opinion but I’m over it.

I remember taking a trip to Florida in my teens. We were sightseeing , new to the area. I was just enjoying the sun and the warm weather for once, I didn’t expect to see anything out of the ordinary. It finally hit me as we were enjoying a drink on the water, we see what looks like a floating log. Our friend who owned the boat said to keep our eyes open and don’t freak out, as long as we were in the boat we were fine. Just hearing that alone was almost panic inducing because he didn’t tell us what we were supposed to be careful of. When the “log drifted under the water, I finally understood what it was that we were looking at. Our friend had us piled in a boat on water infested with these gators. Being from up north, we didn’t see much of this. It made me believe I was in my own movie but I was going to be okay, I thought to myself if it was truly dangerous, our friend wouldn’t have brought us out there right? I stayed calm though, I never knew you could fish in areas that had gators, I assumed they would always go after your bait. All in all I would do it again, but I would never have taken anyone in the water and not tell them about the inhabitants, just in case they have a real phobia. Like I would never take my kids in there in case one panics and falls in. But looking back I’m thinking he may have been in the wrong for taking us there, would you take your friends in an area infested with these creatures not knowing? It’s a little messed up in my opinion but I’m over it.

SonnyBoy🇺🇸

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