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I hate America A and America B discourse but we will go over America A through G and try to think of universities each go to.
Lets start with each America;
Lets start with each America;
America A-The Instititutional Elite
America B-Productive Heartland Core
America C-Managerial Middle
America D-The Economically Dependent
America E-Entrepneurial America
America F-The Meta Elite(The Governing Class)
America G-Exurban Professional Class(The Goats)
America B-Productive Heartland Core
America C-Managerial Middle
America D-The Economically Dependent
America E-Entrepneurial America
America F-The Meta Elite(The Governing Class)
America G-Exurban Professional Class(The Goats)
A-Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
B-North Dakota State, Texas Tech, University of Nebraska
C-University of Maryland, ASU, Michigan State
D-Local Urban Community Colleges, HCBU
E-BYU, University of Utah, Indiana University
F-UChicago, Oxford, Cambridge
G-Penn State, UW Madison, UGA, University of Florida, Virginia Tech
B-North Dakota State, Texas Tech, University of Nebraska
C-University of Maryland, ASU, Michigan State
D-Local Urban Community Colleges, HCBU
E-BYU, University of Utah, Indiana University
F-UChicago, Oxford, Cambridge
G-Penn State, UW Madison, UGA, University of Florida, Virginia Tech
🚨 In 1219, Genghis Khan's army swept through Central Asia. A boy and his family fled, crossing 2,500 miles to survive.
He became one of the most respected scholars in the Islamic world. Thousands attended his lectures.
Then a wandering stranger walked into his life and turned his world inside out. He abandoned his career. His students turned on him.
They murdered the stranger.
The scholar stopped searching. And began to write.
What poured out was 40,000 verses. When he died, Muslims, Christians, and Jews all wept at his funeral.
His name was Rumi. He is the best-selling poet in America, outselling every English-language poet in history.
I turned his philosophy into 12 prompts.
Here are all 12:
He became one of the most respected scholars in the Islamic world. Thousands attended his lectures.
Then a wandering stranger walked into his life and turned his world inside out. He abandoned his career. His students turned on him.
They murdered the stranger.
The scholar stopped searching. And began to write.
What poured out was 40,000 verses. When he died, Muslims, Christians, and Jews all wept at his funeral.
His name was Rumi. He is the best-selling poet in America, outselling every English-language poet in history.
I turned his philosophy into 12 prompts.
Here are all 12:
Prompt 1: The Guest House
Rumi's most famous poem: "This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness - welcome and entertain them all."
Most people fight negative emotions. Rumi says INVITE them in - they're messengers carrying information you need.
"I'm struggling with a difficult emotion or situation: [describe - anxiety, anger, failure, rejection, confusion, grief, self-doubt, frustration]."
Using Rumi's 'Guest House' framework: (1) What 'guest' has arrived? Name the emotion precisely — not vaguely. Not 'I feel bad.' WHAT exactly do I feel? (2) What message is this guest carrying? If this emotion is a messenger, what is it trying to tell me about my life, my decisions, or my direction? (3) What happens if I fight this guest and try to force it out? What have I already lost by resisting? (4) What happens if I 'welcome and entertain' it instead — sit with it, listen to it, let it speak? (5) Rumi says 'each has been sent as a guide from beyond.' What is this emotion guiding me TOWARD that I've been refusing to see?"
Rumi's most famous poem: "This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness - welcome and entertain them all."
Most people fight negative emotions. Rumi says INVITE them in - they're messengers carrying information you need.
"I'm struggling with a difficult emotion or situation: [describe - anxiety, anger, failure, rejection, confusion, grief, self-doubt, frustration]."
Using Rumi's 'Guest House' framework: (1) What 'guest' has arrived? Name the emotion precisely — not vaguely. Not 'I feel bad.' WHAT exactly do I feel? (2) What message is this guest carrying? If this emotion is a messenger, what is it trying to tell me about my life, my decisions, or my direction? (3) What happens if I fight this guest and try to force it out? What have I already lost by resisting? (4) What happens if I 'welcome and entertain' it instead — sit with it, listen to it, let it speak? (5) Rumi says 'each has been sent as a guide from beyond.' What is this emotion guiding me TOWARD that I've been refusing to see?"
Prompt 2: The Wound Is Where the Light Enters
Rumi wrote: "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." His philosophy: your greatest pain is not your weakness; it is the doorway to your deepest transformation.
"I have been wounded by: [describe a failure, a betrayal, a loss, a rejection, a mistake, a humiliation, a setback that still affects me]."
Using Rumi's 'Wound and Light' framework: (1) What is the wound? Describe it honestly — not the version I tell others, but the version that hurts when I'm alone. (2) How have I been treating this wound — hiding it, performing recovery, numbing it, or actually healing? (3) Where is the 'light' trying to enter? What has this wound taught me that I could not have learned any other way? (4) What strength, empathy, or wisdom do I now possess BECAUSE of this wound that I would not have without it? (5) Rumi said the crack is how the light gets in. How do I use this wound as my foundation — not my limitation?"
Rumi wrote: "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." His philosophy: your greatest pain is not your weakness; it is the doorway to your deepest transformation.
"I have been wounded by: [describe a failure, a betrayal, a loss, a rejection, a mistake, a humiliation, a setback that still affects me]."
Using Rumi's 'Wound and Light' framework: (1) What is the wound? Describe it honestly — not the version I tell others, but the version that hurts when I'm alone. (2) How have I been treating this wound — hiding it, performing recovery, numbing it, or actually healing? (3) Where is the 'light' trying to enter? What has this wound taught me that I could not have learned any other way? (4) What strength, empathy, or wisdom do I now possess BECAUSE of this wound that I would not have without it? (5) Rumi said the crack is how the light gets in. How do I use this wound as my foundation — not my limitation?"
Spoke with President Trump. He told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks but if no deal is made he’s blowing up the whole country with “very little” off the table.
"If happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country,” he said.
I asked if there’s anything off limits.
“Very little,” he said.
"If happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country,” he said.
I asked if there’s anything off limits.
“Very little,” he said.
I asked the president if his 2 to 3 week timeline still holds.
"It should be days, not weeks," Trump said.
“It should be wrapped up in days because no sane group of people could stand the punishment that's going to rain down on them if it's not," he said.
"It should be days, not weeks," Trump said.
“It should be wrapped up in days because no sane group of people could stand the punishment that's going to rain down on them if it's not," he said.
The president also told me he doesn’t think American troops on the ground is necessary as of right now.
"I don't think it's necessary but I don't rule anything out."
"I don't think it's necessary but I don't rule anything out."
You set up an AI agent.
Got excited.
Then stared at a blank screen.
OpenClaw 3.24 just dropped, biggest update yet.
MyClaw made the whole thing one-click.
Here's what changed 👇
Got excited.
Then stared at a blank screen.
OpenClaw 3.24 just dropped, biggest update yet.
MyClaw made the whole thing one-click.
Here's what changed 👇
OpenClaw 3.24:
→ ClawHub — 13,700+ skills, official marketplace
→ /btw — side question, zero context lost
→ Per-agent model picks — stop burning Opus on simple tasks
→ GPT-5.4 default. Remote SSH.
Import from Codex/Claude/Cursor.
All live on MyClaw. Nothing to set up.
→ ClawHub — 13,700+ skills, official marketplace
→ /btw — side question, zero context lost
→ Per-agent model picks — stop burning Opus on simple tasks
→ GPT-5.4 default. Remote SSH.
Import from Codex/Claude/Cursor.
All live on MyClaw. Nothing to set up.
Most people quit at setup.
So MyClaw built Essential Skills:
Browse → Pick → Fill preferences → Install.
Zero tokens burned.
Zero config.
Zero "now what."
Install = working AI.
So MyClaw built Essential Skills:
Browse → Pick → Fill preferences → Install.
Zero tokens burned.
Zero config.
Zero "now what."
Install = working AI.
This Trump post is elite. And you’ll start to see it too as you read along. You will love this breakdown.
We all know about the impending deadline on Tuesday. The deadline creates urgency for Iran and gives Trump an extra negotiation chip that didn’t exist before. We all know this.
But it gets better now.
Trump is now branding the deadline.
“Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.”
This branding is elite framing, as it turns an abstract military pressure into vivid, memorable visual events. People don’t remember vague threats.
They remember branded days—like “D-Day” or “Shock and Awe.” Trump makes the destruction feel scheduled, inevitable, and almost celebratory.
It sticks in the mind and signals total control.
And notice how nonchalant it sounds. Trump didn’t go for epic, carnage-heavy branding. He branded it the way you’d casually announce National Potato Chip Day.
That’s intentional. He’s making an apocalyptic-like event for Iran feel routine, even mundane, for the US. This makes the threat land harder because it flexes confidence and might. This is light work for America.
Then Trump uses a direct threat. Zero diplomatic filter. It bypasses the usual State Department word salad and hits the human survival instinct.
And the closer? “Praise be to Allah.” Oh. My. Goodness.
He doesn’t just threaten their infrastructure- he mocks their worldview by hijacking their own religious phrasing right before promising devastation.
This is too perfect.
It’s a reminder who’s writing the script for their “impending” doom.
This is calibrated dominance.
Watch how the media spins it tomorrow. They’ll call it “unpresidential.” The people who get persuasion will see genius.
What a time to be alive.
We all know about the impending deadline on Tuesday. The deadline creates urgency for Iran and gives Trump an extra negotiation chip that didn’t exist before. We all know this.
But it gets better now.
Trump is now branding the deadline.
“Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.”
This branding is elite framing, as it turns an abstract military pressure into vivid, memorable visual events. People don’t remember vague threats.
They remember branded days—like “D-Day” or “Shock and Awe.” Trump makes the destruction feel scheduled, inevitable, and almost celebratory.
It sticks in the mind and signals total control.
And notice how nonchalant it sounds. Trump didn’t go for epic, carnage-heavy branding. He branded it the way you’d casually announce National Potato Chip Day.
That’s intentional. He’s making an apocalyptic-like event for Iran feel routine, even mundane, for the US. This makes the threat land harder because it flexes confidence and might. This is light work for America.
Then Trump uses a direct threat. Zero diplomatic filter. It bypasses the usual State Department word salad and hits the human survival instinct.
And the closer? “Praise be to Allah.” Oh. My. Goodness.
He doesn’t just threaten their infrastructure- he mocks their worldview by hijacking their own religious phrasing right before promising devastation.
This is too perfect.
It’s a reminder who’s writing the script for their “impending” doom.
This is calibrated dominance.
Watch how the media spins it tomorrow. They’ll call it “unpresidential.” The people who get persuasion will see genius.
What a time to be alive.
This is the post that might end the war.
One more thing I’ll add:
Trump’s post reads as if he’s desperately trying to spare Iran. “I’m literally trying to save you from your apocalyptic event. You are so insane if you don’t make a deal. You don’t understand how bad it will be, just open the strait guys”
Trump’s post reads as if he’s desperately trying to spare Iran. “I’m literally trying to save you from your apocalyptic event. You are so insane if you don’t make a deal. You don’t understand how bad it will be, just open the strait guys”
Bitola was once one of Macedonia’s richest towns, tied to Salonica by rail, full of trade and mixed communities. Then WWI turned it into a symbol of how civilians get crushed when borders, propaganda, and revenge collide.🕯️🔽
After the Balkan Wars, Bitola was awarded to Serbia. Bulgaria never accepted it, and waited for a moment to reclaim it. That moment came in 1915, as Serbia was attacked from multiple sides and allies arrived too late. 🔽
Serbia’s retreat through Albania became a national trauma. The article frames it as both suffering and glory, a refusal to surrender. In that vacuum, Bulgaria took Macedonia, including Bitola. 🔽
Can I briefly explain the ecological thinking error, in this thinking. You say, there are too many crows, Foxes and Badgers. Well what are you going to do about it. The ecologically ignorant, say, well cull them, and there will be far less.
1/🧵
1/🧵
However, it doesn't work like this, populations of memo-predators like Foxes and Crows aren't determined by predation a.k.a. culling. Common sense reasoning has it, that if you kill ten thousand Crows or Foxes, then the population is going to be ten thousand less of them.
2/
2/
The population density of say Foxes, isn't determined by how many get killed by humans. It is determined by territoriality and ecological carrying capacity. Most young Foxes don't live much past the first year, because they fail to establish a territory.
3/
3/
If I lost everything tomorrow. $100,000 in debt.
Zero savings. No income. No connections.
Here's exactly what I'd tell Claude to build me a way out from nothing.
Here are 5 prompts. Full financial plan.
(Save this before your competitors do)
Zero savings. No income. No connections.
Here's exactly what I'd tell Claude to build me a way out from nothing.
Here are 5 prompts. Full financial plan.
(Save this before your competitors do)
1. The "Never Again" Wealth System
Prompt:
"You are a wealth strategist for self-made millionaires. I just clawed my way out of $100,000 in debt using the previous 4 prompts. Now I need a system so I never go back. Build me a complete financial operating system: the exact percentage of income that goes to savings, investments, lifestyle, and an emergency fund. Tell me the 3 accounts I need to open this week and what each one is for. Give me the one investment strategy that builds wealth on autopilot with minimal time and risk. Then write me a set of 5 personal money rules — non-negotiable principles I follow for the rest of my life. Make the system so simple I can explain it to a 15-year-old. Make it so solid that going broke again would require deliberately ignoring every rule."
Prompt:
"You are a wealth strategist for self-made millionaires. I just clawed my way out of $100,000 in debt using the previous 4 prompts. Now I need a system so I never go back. Build me a complete financial operating system: the exact percentage of income that goes to savings, investments, lifestyle, and an emergency fund. Tell me the 3 accounts I need to open this week and what each one is for. Give me the one investment strategy that builds wealth on autopilot with minimal time and risk. Then write me a set of 5 personal money rules — non-negotiable principles I follow for the rest of my life. Make the system so simple I can explain it to a 15-year-old. Make it so solid that going broke again would require deliberately ignoring every rule."
2. The 12-Month Escape Timeline
Prompt:
"You are a CFO building a financial recovery roadmap for someone starting from rock bottom. My total debt is $100,000. My new monthly free cash flow after cutting expenses is [amount from prompt 3]. My new income streams are [results from prompt 4]. Build me a month-by-month 12-month plan. Each month should show: total debt remaining, income target, savings target, one financial milestone to hit, and one mindset shift to internalize. By month 6 I should have an emergency fund. By month 9 I should be investing. By month 12 I should be debt-free or within striking distance. Make the timeline aggressive but realistic. Include the exact moment I should stop survival mode and start building wealth. I need to see the light at the end of every single month."
Prompt:
"You are a CFO building a financial recovery roadmap for someone starting from rock bottom. My total debt is $100,000. My new monthly free cash flow after cutting expenses is [amount from prompt 3]. My new income streams are [results from prompt 4]. Build me a month-by-month 12-month plan. Each month should show: total debt remaining, income target, savings target, one financial milestone to hit, and one mindset shift to internalize. By month 6 I should have an emergency fund. By month 9 I should be investing. By month 12 I should be debt-free or within striking distance. Make the timeline aggressive but realistic. Include the exact moment I should stop survival mode and start building wealth. I need to see the light at the end of every single month."
Luke 4:18
Complete Jewish Bible
18
“The Spirit of Adonai is upon me;
therefore he has anointed me
to announce Good News to the poor;
he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned
and renewed sight for the blind,
to release those who have been crushed,
Complete Jewish Bible
18
“The Spirit of Adonai is upon me;
therefore he has anointed me
to announce Good News to the poor;
he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned
and renewed sight for the blind,
to release those who have been crushed,
Go to the HBR Network log in on . Learn more about the COL there. You must be a network member to gain access. Affiliates are not authorized for this service. GeorgiaforDavenport.com
Daniel Davenport is a former medical supply courier volunteer, while COVID-19 was ruthlessly infecting and killing more Black and Brown Americans, he went to work masked in the streets gifting hospital supplies and sourcing N95s from his own dime.
Easter lunch with the family got me thinking.
Most people default to London, Barcelona, or Amsterdam for their kids. Great cities. Also: €2,500/month for a 3BR in Amsterdam. £15K/year school fees in London. Per child.
A friend of mine, well-known author, just moved his family from Lisbon to Genoa. Nobody saw that coming. His reason: the food, the proximity to France, one of Europe's best pediatric hospitals.
That conversation sent me down a rabbit hole.
7 cities where your family will actually thrive, usually not that considered, that I'd opt in for myself.
🧵
Most people default to London, Barcelona, or Amsterdam for their kids. Great cities. Also: €2,500/month for a 3BR in Amsterdam. £15K/year school fees in London. Per child.
A friend of mine, well-known author, just moved his family from Lisbon to Genoa. Nobody saw that coming. His reason: the food, the proximity to France, one of Europe's best pediatric hospitals.
That conversation sent me down a rabbit hole.
7 cities where your family will actually thrive, usually not that considered, that I'd opt in for myself.
🧵
I took the cities my friends with families like the most and re-assessed with some criteria.
What I looked at for each:
- Safety and walkability
- International schools (quality + real cost)
- Pediatric healthcare
- Monthly budget for a family of 4
- Parental leave and childcare
- Outdoor life, beach and mountain access
- The honest downsides worth mentioning
The output is the below list: not just places to park your family. But places where kids can grow up well and you can actually enjoy life too.
Let's go.
What I looked at for each:
- Safety and walkability
- International schools (quality + real cost)
- Pediatric healthcare
- Monthly budget for a family of 4
- Parental leave and childcare
- Outdoor life, beach and mountain access
- The honest downsides worth mentioning
The output is the below list: not just places to park your family. But places where kids can grow up well and you can actually enjoy life too.
Let's go.
1/ Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸
Population: 824,000
Family of 4 budget: €2,500–3,500/month
3BR rent: €1,200–1,800
Valencia is one of my favorites. Many people consider it, but somehow not too many mention it online.
Same beach as Barcelona. Same weather. Better paella (this is literally where it was invented). A fraction of the price.
City of Arts & Sciences. 9 km Turia Gardens park built on a former riverbed. Kids cycling everywhere. Parents having wine at outdoor terraces while the kids play.
One of the lowest crime indexes in Spain. Safer than Barcelona, safer than Madrid.
Population: 824,000
Family of 4 budget: €2,500–3,500/month
3BR rent: €1,200–1,800
Valencia is one of my favorites. Many people consider it, but somehow not too many mention it online.
Same beach as Barcelona. Same weather. Better paella (this is literally where it was invented). A fraction of the price.
City of Arts & Sciences. 9 km Turia Gardens park built on a former riverbed. Kids cycling everywhere. Parents having wine at outdoor terraces while the kids play.
One of the lowest crime indexes in Spain. Safer than Barcelona, safer than Madrid.
We built 300+ high-quality backlinks in 6 months.
Didn't pitch a single journalist.
The secret? Our team became our link building engine.
Here's the employee advocacy framework that scales:
Didn't pitch a single journalist.
The secret? Our team became our link building engine.
Here's the employee advocacy framework that scales:
1/ The untapped link building asset:
Your employees have:
- Personal networks
- Industry connections
- Social media presence
- Speaking opportunities
- Guest post invitations
Yet most companies ignore this goldmine.
Your employees have:
- Personal networks
- Industry connections
- Social media presence
- Speaking opportunities
- Guest post invitations
Yet most companies ignore this goldmine.
2/ Why employee advocacy works for link building:
Links from employee efforts:
- More authentic than outreach
- Higher acceptance rates
- Stronger relationships
- Sustainable long-term
- Zero outreach burnout
People trust people, not companies.
Links from employee efforts:
- More authentic than outreach
- Higher acceptance rates
- Stronger relationships
- Sustainable long-term
- Zero outreach burnout
People trust people, not companies.
1️⃣ The Vedas were not composed "somewhere in ancient India".
They name three rivers: Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati. That confluence is today's Haryana belt.
This isn't ideology. This is internal geographic evidence the texts themselves provide.
So why does nobody mention the location? 🌊
#Haryana
They name three rivers: Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati. That confluence is today's Haryana belt.
This isn't ideology. This is internal geographic evidence the texts themselves provide.
So why does nobody mention the location? 🌊
#Haryana
2️⃣ Now listen to the "Dehati" speech of Haryana.
"Tu kit ja sai"
"Tu ke kha sai"
"Tu ke pi sai"
These aren't translations of Sanskrit.
They ARE Sanskrit sentences after 3,000 years of phonetic erosion.
The rural tongue is the archive.
"Tu kit ja sai"
"Tu ke kha sai"
"Tu ke pi sai"
These aren't translations of Sanskrit.
They ARE Sanskrit sentences after 3,000 years of phonetic erosion.
The rural tongue is the archive.
3️⃣ tvam kutra gacchasi → tu kit ja sai
tvam kim khādasi → tu ke kha sai
Same syntax. Same verb roots. Only endings simplified.
This is linguistic continuity, not borrowing. Not revival. Not reconstruction.
Just unbroken speech, wearing down naturally over millennia.
tvam kim khādasi → tu ke kha sai
Same syntax. Same verb roots. Only endings simplified.
This is linguistic continuity, not borrowing. Not revival. Not reconstruction.
Just unbroken speech, wearing down naturally over millennia.
