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JP and Me

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  What does God want me to do today…exactly.   Well, I know what I should do: I should act upon the design.   I should practice the mechanisms of being—especially those mechanisms that can yield financial reward.   So, I should be good at something that is desired in the marketplace.   Well, what can I be good at given my intellect and natural abilities?   Not only that, what can I do better than the average person that will give me a leg up in the workplace competition?   Now that’s important, you see, because only the golden goose lays the golden egg.   And employers will pay handsomely for the one that can be the golden goose.   So you see, it’s not enough to just get better.   You have to get better at what you’re naturally better at, or capable of being better at, than the average person.   Okay, so you have refined your natural abilities and have been practicing skills that can be of use in the workplace; now what?   Well...

LinkedIn: Trading Places (Updated 8/7/24)

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  My Linkedin profile was removed without any prior warning.  This is the problem with Big Business--one patron or person complains and they fold without reasonable consideration.  My post, the one that I assumed caused the account deletion, was a Schindler's List scene of a person not meeting his OKR, and subsequently escorted out to the courtyard for a failed execution attempt.  This post was up for several days, but all of a sudden they deem it necessary to remove it.  So you're saying that I can't post a business-related, non-violent--though admittedly dramatic--scene on Linkedin, but MTV can depict slurs, boobies, and drag shows!  I'm confused: Who are the adults in this society again?  In a country where my nieces can peer male genitalia on the boob tube, but a full-grown man can't flash his adult Linkedin fam. (not that I would, I'm just saying), it's safe to say that the roles have been reversed.  Move over Rue Paul, and hello Benjamin But...