🪖🙏🏽 Religious affairs & Chaplain corps ops at AF Materiel Command. Building resilience & spiritual readiness for warfighters. Rise. Build. Bless.
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🎧 “Obedience is better than that sacrifice
The fact of life is you were born to die
Our biggest calling is the afterlife
Yeah, our biggest calling is the afterlife” Uncomfortable by Jackie Hill Perry
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I encountered this gem from spiritual writer Jacques Philippe this morning:
"We have many questions in troubled times: 'How can I go on?' 'How long will this last?' 'Why is this happening to me?' 'Who's the blame?' 'Is it normal for this to happen?' These questions are fair enough, and sometimes answering them can even help us solve our problem.
But often there are no answers. One can spend a lifetime, for instance, trying to assign responsibility for a situation without succeeding. Instead of being bent on getting answers, one needs the courage to leave certain legitimate questions unanswered—a different perspective: 'At the end of the day, what does God want from me in all this?' It is good to remember a fundamental point: It is not knowledges that saves but faith."
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you have to shovel an absurd amount of total garbage out of your head just to clear the pipes. you must create a lot of bad art in order to create good art. if you sit there waiting for pure gold on the first swing, you’re going to die holding an empty shovel. you gotta make the ugly stuff - let the bad ink bleed out of your system until the stream runs clear.
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Every year Gallup measures how many people report to a single manager across the American workforce.
The number jumped from 11 to 12 in a single year, the fastest move in the decade they have been tracking it.
The driver can be heard on every restructuring call: companies are cutting middle management roles and distributing the remaining employees across fewer remaining managers.
Gallup's own data says engagement peaks when a manager has eight or nine direct reports. Because that is roughly the number where a person can still give real feedback and know what their people are actually working on. Past fifteen it falls off a cliff.
The question that matters most today is not how many names sit under a given title on an org chart but what percentage of each person's week goes to the work that requires their judgment vs the work that just keeps the operation running.
The companies that are pulling ahead are the ones that moved the routine work out of the human week entirely, so the people still in the room are spending their hours on customers, on the calls only a person can make and on the thinking the business actually competes on.
How we help: bit.ly/4q9XIis
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I love love when real people, authentically share their challenging journeys and how much hard work it took, committed to this hard work every week and to see where they are now. So inspiring…
Crazy inspiring self-development/ career journey panel-- all leaders from across level and industry that unlocked their own momentum in growth, what helped them change perspective on themselves and what was holding them back-- theme around identity, authenticity and accepting yourself as who you are-- but then working to get better.
#HumanAdvantageSummit
@charlieykim @shanaetch @gkunks
Justice prevailed! Beyond excited to see my friends be liberated from this ordeal. Praise God for his protection and wisdom through all of it. 🕊️ 🐍 @charlieykim @MeghanMess
After 32 months of a grueling nightmare defending ourselves against the U.S. Govt and DOJ, yesterday after an 11 day jury trial in DC Federal Court, we were acquitted on all counts. Not guilty on: conspiracy, bribery and gratuity.
When Judge McFadden said: “You’re free to go” everyone was sobbing. Still surreal, to finally get our freedom back. 🇺🇸❤️💪
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MOST PEOPLE SUCK AT LEISURE.
leisure doesn’t mean doing nothing. it doesn't mean switching off your brain, rotting on your sofa, or doomscrolling tiktok.
leisure means doing something for its own sake. something that demands your highest capacities and makes you a better human.
reading philosophy. learning a craft. playing sports. having important conversations. contemplating life. making music, poetry, art.
the deterioration of leisure might be the most underrated problem of our time, and society would be a much happier place if we fixed it.
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A pattern I've noticed in stuck people:
They're always busy. They never stop moving. They have 47 tabs open and a notebook-sized to-do list. But if you ask them what they accomplished this week that actually matters, their mind goes blank.
Busyness isn't a badge of honor.
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Saying "No," is a hard thing done once.
Being Overwhelmed, is hard way of living every day.
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"Speed wins."
"You have to be willing to commit to being fast. You can't have long bureaucratic processes. You can't have a risk-averse posture."
@pmarca explains the OODA loop — and why the fastest operator controls the narrative in business, media, and politics:
"There's a framework called the OODA loop, originally developed for fighter pilots and later for broader military strategy."
"It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. It's basically the decision-making cycle."
"If speed is the thing that matters, then the person who gets through that cycle the fastest is the one who's going to win."
"If you can have a sustainably faster OODA loop processing cycle than the next guy — think about what happens… You operate and make a decision within an hour. The other guy is still inside his own OODA loop when you make your decision. He's only halfway through his process and now has to start over. You've changed the parameters of what's going on."
"This is also a big explanation for what's happened in traditional media."
"The New York Times has its own OODA loop, and it's like 24 hours to go through its process."
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Optimus will be amazing for protecting and taking care of your elderly parents
This is a great discussion by @elonmusk at the WEF in Davos on how Optimus will help the elderly. Our population is aging rapidly. Just the other day my grandmother fell and broke her hip. She lives by herself about an hour drive from me, so it's difficult to be there all the time. She was found on the floor laying for 5 hours. The only way we knew something was wrong was because she wasn't answering the phone, we had to drive an hour to see what happened. She refuses a caregiver who lives in the neighborhood to come in and check in on her, she insists that she doesn't need help. Optimus would be a huge lifesaver for her. She can still maintain her independence and have Optimus there to help her when she needs it. Optimus can adjust its help based on her personality and observing what she needs help with so she can still feel independent and active without all the dangers that come with being nearly 90 years old.
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Thanks to my first exec coach @yarbroughcam for teaching me this