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Dr. Rhonda Patrick

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Make Something Wonderful is 250 pages of Steve Jobs in his own words, speaking directly to you. The book contains some of Steve's ideas that I've never found anywhere else. Notes from the book: 1. He didn't care about being right. He cared about being excellent. 2. His mind was never a captive of reality. 3. He said working with great people gives you access to wisdom that you can't buy for love or money. 4. He believed technology should be streamlined and practical, simple and sophisticated, and that it should be a tool for enhancing creativity as much as productivity. 5. He believed you should ambush your customers. Meet them where they are. 6. His ideas were not arguments, but intuitions. He had a true inner freedom and an epic sense of possibility. 7. He gave an extraordinary amount of thought to how best to use our fleeting time. 8. By the time he was thirty he was the public face of a Fortune 500 company. 9. At Appleโ€™s first board meeting he put his bare feet on a conference room table. 10. He said you should think of your life as a rainbow arching across the horizon of this world. You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear. 11. He possessed unbelievable rigor that he imposed first, and most strenuously, on himself. 12. He saw clearly (1) what was not there, (2) what could be there, (3) what had to be there. 13. He said early Apple employees were more like poets and painters than cold technologists. That the passion they put into their products were completely indistinguishable from other creative fields. He said their work was a form of love. 14. He had a verbal mastery that was obvious at a young age. He used simple, descriptive language, told stories, and repeated lines and ideas that were important. 15. He thought it was inevitable that computers would be the dominant medium of human communication. He said this in 1983. 16. He had a talent for spotting markets full of second-rate products. 17. He said you could tell how important a product was based on the amount of time people spent interacting with it. As a result he thought it was inevitable that more design talent would shift from the automobile (1 or 2 hours a day) to computers (6+ hours a day). He said this in the 80s. 18. He said that books kept him out of jail and that itโ€™s a shame there are so many mediocre teachers. 19. Like many great entrepreneurs before him, Steve knew what he wanted to do, but didn't know how to do it yet. He said he wanted to make an insanely great computer that was the size of a book. What he described sounded a lot like an iPad. He said this in the 80s. 20. He believed that you should use your unique set of talents to make things that make the lives of other people better. Most people just take. He said "the ability to put something back into the pool of human experience is extremely neat." 21. He would tell his team โ€œYou work for Apple first and your boss second.โ€ He felt strongly about that. 22. He was constantly placing the products he was making in a historical perspective, like comparing the Macintosh to the invention of the telephone. 23. He believed you needed to give yourself more time to make mistakes. He said his taste got more refined as he made mistakes. He said that making mistakes over a long period of time made his aesthetics better. 24. He said the key ingredient to making something great was time. 25. He said he wanted to spend his life building things. He could have retired to a beach in his 20s and thought that was disgusting. 26. He was interested in learning how to hone a company down to its essence. 27. You read this book and a thought jumps out at you: How many people are willing to go through a decade of failure without quitting? Steve had the capacity to take pain. 28. He believed it was better to focus on what you're actually passionate about, instead of what you think will make you the most money. He made the most money that way. 29. He listened to older, wiser entrepreneurs and let them shape and mold his thinking. 30. He wasn't afraid to fail, but had to coach himself to adopt that trait. He didn't want to fail, but he wasn't afraid of it. 31. He said don't let your differentiation evaporate. 32. He said if you let your differentiation evaporate the only solution is innovation. 33. He believed great ideas don't map onto corporate hierarchy. 34. He was incapable of thinking that his work and his life were different, separate things. 35. He said the most important things in life are not the goal-oriented, materialistic things. He said you should tap into the worldโ€™s magical, mystical, and artistic sides. 36. He paid attention to subtle insights. He was guided by intuition. 37. He didn't believe in the concept or a career, or think it was wise to follow well-worn paths laid out by others. 38. He said most people make the mistake of not thinking about death. He said: "For me itโ€™s the opposite: to know my arc will fall, makes me want to blaze while I am in the sky." 39. He thought Walt Disney had a great idea: Edit before you make it. 40. He said no amount of technology can turn a bad story into a good story. 41. He believed storytellers were the most powerful people in the world. 42. He believed if you didn't have great people you were doomed. 43. He found great people by looking at great results and finding out who was responsible for them. 44. This is how he interviewed people: "In an interview I will purposely upset someone: Iโ€™ll criticize their prior work. Iโ€™ll do my homework, find out what they worked on and say, โ€œGod, that really turned out to be a bomb. That really turned out to be a bozo product. Why did you work on that?โ€ The worst thing that someone can do in an interview is to agree with me and knuckle under. What I look for is for someone to come right back and say, โ€œYouโ€™re dead wrong and hereโ€™s why.โ€ 45. He believed the job of the leader was to make sure the work is as good as it should be, and to get people to stretch beyond their best. 46. He believed the job of the leader was to cajole, and beg, and plead, and threaten at timesโ€”to do whatever is necessary to get people to see things in a bigger and more profound way and to have them do better work than they thought they could do. 47. He believed the priorities of the leader were (1) recruit, (2) set an overall direction, and (3) inspire and cajole and persuade. 48. He believed a creative company should have a risk-taking, creative environment on the product side and a fiscally conservative environment on the business side. 49. He believed you have to choose what you put your love into really carefully. 50. He had a remarkably consistent set of values that he held dear: Life is short; donโ€™t waste it. Tell the truth. Technology should enhance human creativity. Process matters. Beauty matters. Details matter. The world we know is a human creationโ€”and we can push it forward. 51. He thought when deciding what to work on that you should ask yourself: "What do I give a shit about?" And then go do that. 52. He would never sell Apple. Not for all the money in the world. 53. He believed you should master the basics, simplify the product line, and focus on the gems. 54. He believed marketing was about values. That the world is noisy and you should focus on telling customers what you believe in and what you stand for. 55. He believed one way to invest in yourself is by exploring uncharted paths that are different from your past experiences. You know it's an uncharted path when you have no idea where it will lead. 56. He believed that people that think theyโ€™re following a safe path pay the highest price of all. They won't realize it for a decade or two โ€” and by then it's too late. 57. He didn't believe in resting on laurels or sleeping on wins. Make something great. Then do it again. 58. He imagined what reality lacked and set out to remedy it. 59. He believed in straight forward, clear communication. If the work isn't good enough you have to tell them straight: "This isn't good enough. I know you can do better. You need to do better. Now go do better." 60. He remained driven by a mission to "put something back into the pool of human experience." 61. He believed in the basics: great product, great marketing, great distribution. 62. He believed you must keep up with innovations in distribution. 63. He believed brands take decades to build. 64. He would capture the evolution of his own thinking by emailing himself. 65. He viewed Apple has the world's premier bridge builder between normal people and the exploding world of high technology. 66. He wanted to demystify technology. 67. He believed excellence was a habit and we are what we repeatedly do. 68. He believed you should be curious about what came before you and you should spend time to learn about it. 69. He believed you simply could not mix messages when selling something new. A customer can barely handle one great new idea, let alone several. 70. He said it's a circus world and you'll never know what's around the next corner. 71. He believed in management by values. Which means (1) find people that want the same things you want and (2) figure out the best way to get those things along the way. 72. He believed in the mantra: Finding the right people is half the battle. 73. He said you can't plan to meet the people who will change your life. 74. He believed everything is temporary โ€” there is no such thing as safety. 75. He believed that your life is a story and that you should remember that your life is a story and that you should always act like your life is a story. 76. He believed in rejecting dogma, which he defined as living with the results of other people's thinking. He said that dogma can be so loud that it can drown out your own inner voice and you should avoid this. 77. He believed a great place to start was by improving a product you hate. If you can make something you love, you can convince other people to love it too. 78. He said all glory is fleeting and you should just get back to making something wonderful. I'm really proud of the episode I made about this book. You'll learn a lot from Steve by listening to it. You can watch/listen to it in full here, or in your favorite podcast app.

David Senra

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Player Profile: Khanyisa Mayo[27]๐Ÿ“ Position: RW/RF/CF Foot: Left Club: Kaizer Chiefs FC Kaizer Chiefs has made another bold move in adding quality to the teams attack. Khanyisa Mayo provides immediate and long-term attacking solutions for the club on the right. 1. Technical Qualities Mayo is a skillful, left-footed attacker with a profile built for modern, high-intensity attacking football. โ–  A very direct winger, always looking to advance play instead of recycling possession. โ–  Excellent at carrying the ball through pressure, breaking lines, and forcing defenders into retreat. โ–  His dribbling and progressive runs add verticality to the teamโ€™s attacking structure. Shooting and Passing: โ–  Strong shooting range when cutting inside from the right. He provides that unpredictability to the attack with his quality to strike the ball from range. Consistently attempts to feed the box: goals, assists, and key passes. A finisher and creator between the lines. Positional Versatility: โ–  In a 4-3-3/4-2-3-1, his best role is as the right forward or right winger, cutting inside to shoot or combine. He can also be effective stretching play and still carry goal threat and creativity. โ–  As a No. 9: While not his best role, he is capable of leading the line. He uses his pace to run in behind. He can compete but lacks the physicality to hold off defenders, though his finishing is good. โ–  As a Second Striker[442]: A role that plays better to his strengths than as a 9. He is comfortable operating between the lines, combining with midfielders and a traditional box striker. His mobility, creativity, and shooting ability allow him to function as the link player, collecting the ball, supporting the primary striker, and creating or finishing opportunities. This ability to operate both wide and centrally makes him tactically flexible, giving Chiefs options in various attacking structures. 2. Physical Attributes โ–  Pace & Explosiveness: Quick acceleration makes him a constant outlet for balls in behind. โ–  Strength & Balance: He is strong enough to hold off fullbacks, sustaining attacking sequences under pressure โ–  High Intensity: Matches the tempo of Chiefsโ€™ pressing and counter-pressing game. We do most actions with a lot of intensity, and his explosive nature will be very much welcomed in our attack. 3. Tactical Fit at Chiefs Under Coach Nabi, Chiefs are shaping into a side that plays with directness, intensity, and aggression across all phases of play: โ–  Pressing & Counter-Pressing: The team applies immediate pressure after losing the ball. Mayoโ€™s speed, defensive work rate, and forward momentum align seamlessly with this system. โ–  High-Tempo Attacking: Chiefs donโ€™t rely on slow possession. Attacks are vertical, sharp, and quick. Mayoโ€™s instinct to drive forward, dribble at defenders, and attack space makes him an ideal fit. โ–  Attacking Personality: His ability to provide not just progression but also the final goal, final pass, and decisive action elevates Chiefsโ€™ attacking efficiency. Mayoโ€™s game is inherently aligned with protagonist football: high tempo, forward intent, and productivity. 4. Experiential Value โ–  Continental Experience: Spent a season in Algeria with CR Belouizdad, scoring 6 goals from wide positions. Notable not just for the numbers but for adapting to a challenging cultural and tactical environment. โ–  Tactical Growth: North African teams are disciplined and organized, with compact defenses and structured pressing. Mayo sharpened his decision-making, spatial awareness, and ability to operate against tight blocks, preparing him for high-level CAF competitions. โ–  Mentality: At 27, he blends maturity with hunger. His willingness to take risks reflects confidence and attacking intent. Yet to reach his peak, now is the perfect time to step up, showing the quality glimpsed at Cape Town City. Mayo joins Chiefs as both a system player and a game-changer. A top signing by the Glamour Boys! ๐Ÿ“

El Capitanoโšช

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๐Ÿšจ Undercover Video Shows Israeli Contractors Have Manipulated in more than 33 Presidential Elections Worldwide โ€” A Video Everyone Should Watch to Understand the Digital Battlefield โ€ข In 2023, a group of undercover journalists exposed a team of Israeli contractors, called Team Jorge. โ€”โ€” The undercover footage was filmed by three reporters, who approached Team Jorge posing as prospective clients who wanted to interfere in an election in Africa. โ€ข The unit is run by Tal Hanan, a 50-year-old former Israeli special forces operative who now works privately using the pseudonym โ€œJorgeโ€, and appears to have been working under the radar in elections in various countries for more than two decades. โ€”โ€” Their tactics include hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media. โ€ข In more than six hours of secretly recorded meetings, Hanan and his team spoke of how they could gather intelligence on rivals, including by using hacking techniques to gain complete access Gmail and Telegram accounts. โ€”โ€” they claim to be exploiting vulnerabilities in the โ€˜Global Sognaling Systemโ€™ (SS7) โ€”โ€” They boasted of planting material in legitimate news outlets, which are then amplified by the AIMS bot-management software. โ€”โ€” They proclaimed that theyโ€™ve been successful with interfering in 27-33 Presidential-level campaigns. โ€ข One of Team Jorgeโ€™s key services is a sophisticated software package, Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or โ€˜AIMSโ€™. โ€”โ€” โ€˜AIMSโ€™ controls a vast army of thousands of fake social media profiles on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Telegram, Gmail, Instagram and YouTube. โ€”โ€” Some avatars even have Amazon accounts with credit cards, bitcoin wallets and Airbnb accounts, multiple-platform associated accounts, multiple AI imagesโ€ฆ All done to create the illusion these bots are a real personโ€ฆ โ€ข Much of their strategy revolves around disrupting or sabotaging rival campaigns: the team even claimed to have sent a s*x toy delivered via Amazon to the home of a politician, with the aim of giving his wife the false impression he was having an affair. โ€ข Leaked emails show a fee between $400k - 600k per month is their fee. โ€”โ€” another email shows that this team also worked exclusively on the Nigerian Presidential Election in 2015. So Next time youโ€™re arguing with someone online on why they support pedophiles, funding wars, LGBTQ in kids classroomsโ€ฆ Think of this video. Clip Article (๐ŸงขChiefChris)

MJTruthUltra

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Michael Saylor just went on CNBC and said that if Bitcoin drops 90%, he'll simply "refinance the debt" and "roll it forward." This guy is a desperate fraud who has NO CLUE what he's talking about. Let's actually look at what "rolling it forward" means in reality: Strategy holds 714,644 Bitcoin purchased at an average cost of $76,056 per coin. Total acquisition cost: $54.35 billion. Bitcoin is trading around $68,000. Already below their cost basis. The company carries over $8 billion in debt. 100% of its convertible notes are now out of the money. Now imagine Saylor's own scenario. Bitcoin drops 90%. That takes it to roughly $6,800. Strategy's 714,644 Bitcoin would be worth approximately $4.9 billion. Against $8 billion in debt. The assets don't cover the liabilities. Period. And he thinks banks are going to refinance that? On what collateral? On what cash flow? Because Strategy's operating cash flow was negative $138 million in 2025. Down from negative $53 million the year before. The trajectory is going the wrong direction. When asked: "You think banks would lend to you at that point?" Saylor just laughed it off. But here's who's not laughing: 11 state pension funds that bought MSTR as a "regulated proxy" for Bitcoin exposure. CalPERS. New York State. Florida. Wisconsin. New Jersey. Teachers. Firefighters. Police officers. Together they hold 1.8 million shares. Their original investment: $577 million. Current value: $240 million. That's $337 million in paper losses. Most funds are down 60%. CalPERS, the largest public pension fund in the country, bought 448,000 shares for $144 million. That position has been cut nearly in half. These aren't hedge fund cowboys who can stomach a drawdown. These are retirement systems with fiduciary obligations to millions of public workers. Meanwhile $MSTR has fallen from $543 to roughly $123. Down 77% from its all-time high. Saylor says he'll buy Bitcoin "every quarter forever" and will never sell. But that's not how debt works. You don't get to choose when your creditors come calling. You don't get to "roll forward" $8 billion in debt when your only asset has collapsed and your operating business generates negative cash flow. The people who say "we'll just refinance" are always the ones who can't. The question isn't whether Saylor believes in Bitcoin. The question is whether pension funds managing trillions in retirement savings should be exposed to a leveraged single-asset bet run by a man who laughs off a 90% drawdown scenario on national tv. Teachers. Firefighters. State employees. Their retirement savings are sitting inside a company that just posted a $12.4 billion loss and whose chairman's contingency plan is "we'll figure it out." That's STUPID. And the people who'll pay the price aren't on CNBC. They're counting on those pensions to be there when they retire.

George Noble

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E119: - How Solana Mobile plans to disrupt Apple and Google! Anatoly didnโ€™t just want a faster blockchain. He wanted to rethink how users interact with the crypto stack - and realized that most of that friction lives at the device level - this is how the Solana Mobile phone was born. We talk about: - How Anatoly went from the Soviet Union to Silicon Valley - How the Seeker | Solana Mobile Seeker hopes to change the problems Crypto users face - How will this disrupt Apple & Google's duopoly - The Vitalik Buterin tweet that saved Solana - The inflection point with the Mad Lads launch and the Helium migration - How to deal with FUD - Fartcoin strategic reserve - Balancing work, family, and passion projects And much more... Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:06 Partnerships: Jupiter, KAST, Bitwise, SUI, Mantle 2:55 Talking to Startup Founders 4:37 Coming Up of Big Ideas 6:16 Thinking Clearer Without Caffeine 7:10 Childhood Trauma to Success 8:22 Comfortable Being Different 9:40 Self Custody with Trezor 10:33 Moving to America Changed Everything 11:05 First Eureka Moment in Coding 13:47 What Happened to Voiceover IP 15:42 Thinking Small vs. Thinking Big 16:57 Why Loving Your Work Matters 20:00 Having Fun as an Employee 21:08 Focus on Progress, Not Perfection 23:13 Crypto World Fascination 25:32 Jumping Into Crypto's Gold Rush 31:42 Choosing Family, Job, and Side Hustle 32:38 The Power of Silicon Valley's Network 36:07 What is Solana 36:43 Understanding Proof of History 39:14 The Challenge of New Ideas 42:57 Ethereum's Limitations 44:26 Building Beyond Token Price 50:06 Surviving the FTX Collapse 52:31 Dealing with FUD 53:28 Vitalikโ€™s Support for Solana 54:46 Ethereumโ€™s Challenges and Response 57:04 Near Death to Blockchain Success 1:00:33 Mad Lads 1:02:16 Why Every Founder Should Be a CSO 1:04:20 What Should a Founder NOT Do 1:05:35 Finding a Co-Founder 1:07:19 Rise of Meme Coins on Solana 1:10:16 Fartcoin๐Ÿ’จ 1:11:11 Launching Seeker | Solana Mobile 1:13:51 Why Buy Solana Seeker Mobile Phone 1:17:06 What is Seed Vault? 1:18:29 Role of Solflare - The Solana Wallet 1:18:49 End Goal for Solana Mobile 1:20:02 What is Acceleration? 1:21:33 Top Solana Projects to Watch: Helium๐ŸŽˆ XNET โ“ง Hivemapper 1:25:56 Meme Coins Fueling the Infrastructure 1:27:23 Solanaโ€™s Biggest Achievement 1:27:56 Solanaโ€™s Biggest Problem 1:30:37 Has Solana "Made It"? 1:31:00 Success and Happiness 1:33:26 Non-Consensus Ideas 1:36:51 Concluding Remarks

MR SHIFT ๐Ÿฆ

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Elon Musk in 2008: "NASA was going to pay Russia $70M per astronaut. SpaceX could do it for $15M" Musk is presenting SpaceX to a small audience. He shows a video of the Falcon 9 first stage firing: "This is almost a million pounds of thrust in vacuum, about four times the maximum thrust of a 747. It's pretty much Armageddon down there. You don't want to be standing at the base of that test stand." He explains the NASA contract: "The contract SpaceX has right now is to demonstrate cargo transfer to the space station and return of experiments to Earth. What we're hoping NASA will exercise is an option on that contract to also carry astronauts. I think they will exercise that option fairly soon." On the coming gap in American spaceflight: "The Space Shuttle is retiring in 2010. So unless our spacecraft is active, the US will not have the ability to send people to orbit. For about five or six years, unless SpaceX is successful, there will be no American manned space capability. There'll just be the Russians." He describes the situation bluntly: "The Russians are charging us over $70 million per seat after the shuttle retires. They got us over a barrel and they're doing us hard. We'll spend half a billion dollars per year on the Russians just buying tickets for six or seven astronauts to go to the space station." Musk shares SpaceX's cost: "Our cost per person, even assuming no reusability, assuming every bit of it is expended and no refurbishment, is about $15 million per person. And it's us. The jobs are here. So I think it's kind of a no-brainer. But no-brainers in Washington DC don't always happen." On Congress: "We've been given money for the cargo portion but not for the manned portion. The amount we're asking for to get this done is $300 million. For every year that we're dependent on the Russians, we have to send them half a billion dollars. It seems kind of ludicrous. But anyway, that's DC." Someone asks about the space elevator: "The idea is you have this really long cable, like 40 to 60,000 miles long, with the ends way out in space and the base on Earth. There are a lot of issues with the space elevator. It relies on super strong materials, carbon nanotubes. Until we build, say, a carbon nanotube footbridge, then I think we should not really be thinking too much about building a 60,000-mile elevator. Not this century." On space solar power: "If there's anyone in the world who should love space solar power, it's me. I'm chairman and the largest shareholder of a solar company called SolarCity, and I've got a rocket company. So it should be perfect. Unfortunately, I don't think space solar power makes sense. I wish it did because that'd be awesome. But even if you assume it costs zero to transport the solar panels to space, when you take into account the equipment to convert the energy to microwaves, then equipment on the ground to convert it back to electricity, just that capital cost blows you out of the water. It's not competitive with terrestrial solar power. So there's no point in even thinking about it." On fuel costs: "The fuel and oxidizer cost is really super low. For our big rocket, it's only a couple hundred thousand dollars. For our small rocket, it's about $30,000 or $40,000. If you just look at the propellant cost, it's very, very cheap." On the long-term goal: "One of the design goals for Falcon 9 is that it can go from in the hangar to in the air in under 60 minutes, which would be super fast for a rocket, particularly a big rocket. It's going to take several flights before we get there. But as long as we lay the foundation and make sure the design is capable of that, we can at least have the possibility of getting to a flight an hour in the future."

Grey

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US Education Department Contractor Overcharged Taxpayers While Spending Millions On Executive Salaries As student math and reading scores declined, the American Institute of Research charged 50% in indirect costs and paid its CEO over $2 million by alex gutentag and Michael Shellenberger Over the last few weeks, the media and Democrats have been lambasting President Donald Trump for cutting the Department of Educationโ€™s research budget. In particular, the media criticized the Trump administration for cutting a contractorโ€™s research into support services for students with disabilities who are nearing graduation. But itโ€™s not clear that the research was necessary or successful, and there is already both state and federal funding aimed at helping students with disabilities to develop life skills and plans for the future. And now Public has obtained invoices showing that the Departmentโ€™s contractor for the research in question, American Institute for Research (AIR), had significantly overcharged the Department in so-called indirect costs. The invoice is from November 18, 2024, and shows AIR billing the Department $411,961.35 for the month of October 2024. Of that money, $214,952.74 was in โ€œtotal indirects.โ€ AIR charged an additional $26,950.74 as a 7% fee. The invoice shows that the cumulative amount that AIR had billed the Department of Education was $10,957,275.73, of which $4,993,376.12 was total indirects and $716,831.18 was total additional fees. A second invoice is from January 15, 2025, and shows AIR billing the Department $60,913.72 for the month of December 2024. Of that money, $29,685.23 was in total indirects. AIR charged an additional $3,985.01 as a 7% fee. The invoice shows that the cumulative amount that AIR had billed the Department of Education was $11,076,493.79, of which $5,028,446.77 was total indirects and $724,630.48 was total additional fees. In response to questions from Public, an AIR spokesperson said, โ€œAIRโ€™s indirect rates are similar to those of other social and behavioral research organizations and we have always abided by our approved rates. For government contractors, indirect costs include such costs as information technology, data security, and compliance and reporting.โ€ However, 50% in indirect fees is widely considered excessive. The National Institutes of Health recently required that its contractors lower indirect costs to 15% to reduce widespread overcharging. Indeed, when asked about the invoice, a spokesperson for the Department of Education condemned the high fees. โ€œContracts with indirect rates over 50% take gross advantage of taxpayer dollars, perverting the reason the contracts exist โ€” our students,โ€ said Department spokesperson Madison Biedermann. โ€œIncoming leadership will no longer allow these unacceptable terms.โ€ According to AIRโ€™s IRS 990 form, the total compensation of AIRโ€™s chief executive, David Myers, in the most recent year available, 2023, was $2,241,374. โ€œAt the end of 2023, David Myers finished a 14-year tenure as AIRโ€™s President and Chief Executive Officer,โ€ said the AIR spokesperson. โ€œHis compensation for his final year included a retention payment. The salary for our current President and CEO is lower and in line with what other non-profit organizations of our size and type pay their chief executives.โ€ However, AIRโ€™s tax forms showed that Myers earned $2,294,637 in 2022 and $1,145,400 in 2021. Jessica Heppen is the current president and CEO. In 2023, she earned $685,060 as president. Neither Heppen nor Myers responded to Publicโ€™s request for comment. AIRโ€™s 990 form shows other high salaries for staff and fees for board members. AIRโ€™s Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, earned $931,610 in 2023, and its CFO earned $1,145,400 in 2022. A member of the AIR Board, Robert Boruch, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, received $80,250 in 2023 for just 2 hours of work per week, which is $772 per hour. While nonprofit board members typically donate their time, 14 of AIRโ€™s board members received hundreds of dollars per hour for their service. None responded to requests by Public for comment. AIRโ€™s fees should be considered in the broader context of declining student performance and AIRโ€™s role to provide research that improves student performance. Today, only 31% of fourth graders and only 30% of eighth graders are reading at or above proficiency levels, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In eighth grade reading, 33% of students scored โ€œbelow basic,โ€ the highest percentage recorded in the NAEPโ€™s history. Congress established the Education Department in 1979 โ€œto promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.โ€ Student performance has declined across the board over the last 10 years. While Covid school closures significantly worsened them, math and reading scores declined for fourth- and eighth-graders nationwide from 2014 to 2024. AIR appears to be partly responsible. It gave a favorable evaluation to Lucy Calkinsโ€™ Units of Study curriculum, which used elements of the now-debunked โ€œwhole languageโ€ approach to reading instead of systematic phonics instruction. Under the whole language approach, teachers taught children to memorize whole words and use guessing strategies instead of sounding out individual sounds in unfamiliar words. The failure of the whole language approach was precisely why the Department of Education hires groups like AIR. The goal of research is to discover which teaching methods work and which donโ€™t before schools adopt them. That didnโ€™t happen. In fact, the opposite did. The result was a whole generation of children robbed of fundamental literacy. โ€œIt is absolutely inaccurate to say we โ€˜gave a favorable evaluationโ€™ to Units of Study,โ€ said AIR. But the evaluation was clearly positive. Implementation of the curriculum, AIRโ€™s report stated, โ€œis associated with improvements in ELA [English Language Arts] achievement starting in the second year of implementation, and in schools that opt to continue with the approach long term, the magnitude of the effects grow larger over time.โ€ And even AIR noted, in its email to Public, โ€œWe found no positive effect in the first year of implementation, then saw positive effects in subsequent years for some schools.โ€ Other Department contractors had much lower indirect rates. Why was AIR able to charge so much? If you're not already a subscriber, please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning investigative reporting, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!

Michael Shellenberger

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