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If you’re looking for a new rabbit hole to explore…theres an entire crowd of people who firmly believe that the government creates a corporate version of you when you’re born, and that your name in CAPS on the birth certificate is evidence of this.

My dude, it’s much MUCH higher than that

Picture it… Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk starts playing. You walk in. Double finger-guns. Wry smile. A wink for every person in the room.

My best guess…

From “skeletons in the closet”. Colloquially, meaning to have secrets.

“Say what you mean, mean what you say.”

You would definitely enjoy Preacher. Graphic novels are great, show is better than ok.

Guy ends up gaining “the word of God” as an ability

There’s definitely an inherent paw clause to this power…unintended consequences galore!

Probability has more than one side, bend it one way and its also being bent away from another.

Bend probability to my will.

Example: Jump out of a plane (see a bowl of petunias and a sperm whale on the way down), bend probability so that against all odds; I start to fly.

Cologne, worn moderately.

Smelling good is a huge part of being attractive. You can legit make heads turn by wearing a scent that doesn’t reek, doesn’t smell like everyone else, and compliments your own body oils and smells.

The Fediverse demographic skews very heavily away from anything that smells even remotely like promotion or sales (and especially AI).

Your best bet, and possibly the only meaningful way, to leverage the Fediverse as a business is to use it for thought leadership. Write, post, comment about specific meaningful things your business is centered around. Do not promote, do not use contextual links, do not direct people to your website for more info.

This isn’t a place for direct lead gen at scale. It’s a place to accumulate like minded people, and work towards those people talking about you inside their own networks.

It’s the long game, recognition and association; not engagement and monetization.

This movie was ahead of its time. I could watch this and Spaceballs on repeat as a kid

Just my own opinion, developed through my own lived experiences. I, consciously, chose to not specialize too deep into one field and instead developed a more broad set of skills. The recent research is starting to validate my decisions back then. As it turns out, college grads with multiple minors, rather than graduates with a traditional major trajectory, tend to be better suited to the work environments.

Where knowledge of a range of disciplines helps inform a more holistic approach to creative problem solving. “Wicked problems” are often tackled and solved by systems thinking generalists because they draw on a wide range of experiences across multiple disciplines, departments, and sets of knowledge.

Dive into T-Shaped Skill Sets

Saw Robocop when I was six. Murphy getting his arm blown to bits haunted me for years… Until I saw Red Foreman years later, then I was ok

Tahini! Sesame paste goodness!

Ok, blue-skying a bit here…

There’s this YouTube channel I check out occasionally. The YouTuber built a “wireless desk” where everything from the lamp to the mouse, keyboard, and even a coffee warmer were wirelessly powered.

Wireless Powered Desk

The core of it was a large induction loop built into the desk’s perimeter, paired with some surprisingly compact receiver dongles. Some parts required deeper DIY, like opening up the mouse and inserting a small receiver, but overall it was cool

Scaling that concept up for an entire house is a wild thought… but kind of exciting!

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?

• Robert Browning

You’re describing retirement. And, boy have I spent a LOT of time thinking about what that looks like.

A lot of people have lists of things they’d do, see, learn, or be. I had one too, but it kept fucking changing depending on where I was in life and what my interests were.

Any list I had always felt restrictive. Here’s where I ended up instead…

I would put my energy and attention only on the things that I want to put them on at any given time.

I guess some call that living in the moment, but I call it retirement.

This brand of positivity you’re embodying is the most infectious one, and if I can feel it in your writing I imagine hearing it spoken from you would be some next level inspiration.

I’ve lost some people close to me over the years and what saddens me most is how I’ve forgotten so much about them beyond what they looked like. All of them except one…Gordon left behind audio recordings as his last messages to each of us in the group of friends.

Every time I hear his voice, it brings back so much about him that just can’t be said. His cadence, intonation, and overall manner of speaking have helped keep an entire person in my memory.

I wonder if that’s an option for you. I can say from experience that the lasting impact of audio is…powerful. Being able to actually hear my friend…i can imagine him speaking to me, and it’s in his voice because his voice is not forgotten.

Your family hearing your thoughts, in your voice…and being able to hear you speak long after your time…man, I can’t think of a better way to highlight your true personality and make it a lasting one.