The Microsoft Conspiracy, Heavy From Life, Fixing Education, My Vocal Blitherings
“No one wants to carry someone when they’re heavy from life. I read a book about that once. A bunch of drivel about two people who kept coming back to each other. The lead male says that to the girl he keeps letting get away. I had to put the book down. No one wants to carry someone when they’re heavy from life. It’s a concept smart authors feed to their readers. It’s slow poison; you make them believe it’s real, and it keeps them coming back for more. Love is cocaine.”
Good morning folks, let’s do this day like no other. Let’s attack as if this was some beast of an opponent; this day is yours to seize. Or you could do just what you usually do, and that is ok as well—no reason to be spicy, they say. But for me, I’m going to be spicy today, watch and learn.
Ok, so I was getting emails from friends asking if I had removed them from my email list, they were not getting my soup, I had made a slight change to the way I deliver my soup and thought I had made an error. Well, guess what Anson Ross found out yesterday, every email he had sent since 8/10 had not been delivered. Every client email, every meeting request, every damn thing I had done for eight days was rejected due to Microsoft claiming I’m a spammer.
I had created a rule long ago if something was rejected to put that email in my deleted, so every email rejection was automatically sent to my deleted folder. A fistful of folly, and I’m glad we figured it out. Shout out to Leap IT which takes care of our system; we love you guys, thank you for keeping our technology rocking.
When COVID hit, I began meeting new people from Indianapolis. I’ll blame Jason Ulm and Arron Stanton, they are connectors, and they began connecting me with some mavericks from my home town. One such young man was Drew Feutz, we chatted via Zoom a few times and then when home, he joined a few of us for a cocktail. He and his friend have a podcast, it’s called Circle City Success Podcast, and since I still live in Indy, they invited me to be a guest. If you care to hear the blitherings of an old white guy. You can find it here: https://lnkd.in/ed4UKM6
In other news, I joined a call with some thought leaders yesterday afternoon. Our topic, what is the state of education. We had a small but mighty group that shared our personal experience but also our perceptions about the current state of our academic system. We had a 20-year teacher on the call that was enlightened. He explained that in 1890 Horace Mann and some other industrialists created our education system. If you walked magically took someone from 1950 and dropped them into a classroom in 1980, 2000, or 2020 they would say I know this is school. But if you dropped them in any other area of our world, they would be mightly confused. His point, education, unlike the rest of society, has not been keeping up.
He shared his experience as a teacher and why he left to start a nonprofit that helps kids find their passion. I shared that another educator heard about our work and was dismissive of our attempt to improve the current situation, most educators do not see the problems with their teaching approach, collectively we think an overhaul is in order.
Instead of teaching our children the traditional way, figure out a way to tap into their genius, and we do believe that every child is a genius, we just have to find their passion. The example Don used was Lebron James. Say Lebron was in school, and they deemed him good at basketball, so instead of focusing on his love and gift, they made him take tennis and golf lessons because he was deficient in those skills. In that example, we are robbing a young man of his passion, his gift, his actual skill set.
The cookie-cutter approach to learning is flawed, and maybe an individual plan is something that needs to be investigated. We are suffering from the idea that all kids need to go to college, the trades are an honorable profession, give the kids a choice; not every kid should go to college. I look at my young friend Nate who, when leaving high school, saw the error of the world and asked his parents to send him to Ivy Tech for two business courses.
He already had a business, he was a DJ and thought he could skip college and start his business, but he needed some business skills. After Ivy Tech, he launched his company and now is a successful 28-year-old living his dream, soon to relocated to Colorado. He is the example of the future of education, no young man, lady, or transgender; college is not for everyone.
I think we need to test kids, not using the standard testing that is used today, but a personality test of sorts, something like the one we use to hire people. It can give a sense of a person’s interests and might show where they should use their talents. I think some folks are sitting in a cubical in an accounting office that may or may not be amazing actors or artists, but society gave them a bull shit plan for life.
I know, stick to selling insurance, who do you think you are? Well, I’m a man along with others that look at our world and see problems, issues, and hurdles that with a little work could be solved. We are bold enough to have conversations and bring people together that seek change and improvement in our world. If you are an educator, a parent, someone that cares about education, send me a message and I’ll add you to our focus group, we will change the world, no joke, I’d love to have you join our next meeting.
Enough I say, that’s enough words, and with a little luck, this message will be delivered to the masses. I hope Microsoft does not quell my ability to share these words; I think a conspiracy is happening in the bowels of society, let’s keep those with an active mind silenced! Kidding, just a tech issue, but I’m glad to be back on the grid. Thank you for sipping my soup. I offer it free to those that are hungry for something more than the nonsense the mainstream media are feeding us.
“No one wants to carry someone when they’re heavy from life. I read a book about that once. A bunch of drivel about two people who kept coming back to each other. The lead male says that to the girl he keeps letting get away. I had to put the book down. No one wants to carry someone when they’re heavy from life. It’s a concept smart authors feed to their readers. It’s slow poison; you make them believe it’s real, and it keeps them coming back for more. Love is cocaine.”