#priorities — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #priorities, aggregated by home.social.
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Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities
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Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities
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Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities
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Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities
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Trump’s administration proposed stripping tax-exempt status from schools that consider race in admissions. Because apparently Washington solved groceries, healthcare, housing and war and finally reached Item 847 on America’s emergency to-do list. #Priorities
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Ah, the cosmic comedy of SpaceX's descent into junk bond #orbit 🚀💸—because who needs financial stability when you've got rockets? Meanwhile, the Financial Times doubles as a #JavaScript #error page, providing critical insights into how to troubleshoot your browser. 🤦♂️ #Priorities
https://www.ft.com/content/3a023b95-66c3-41e1-b0ce-df752a499541 #SpaceX #FinancialStability #JunkBond #BrowserInsights #HackerNews #ngated -
#1 - "The greatest ROI is time" - Futurist Jim Carroll
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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
---Thirty-six years ago, I made a choice that many are facing for the first time.
I stepped out of the corporate world to bet on a home office, emerging trends, and a belief in myself. Seven years later, I began writing about this shift as a major trend, identifying the rise of “nomadic workers” — people we now call members of the freelance economy. In 1997, I published articles and a book (never completed) outlining the vanguard of a new economy where the traditional “job-for-life” was being replaced by a portfolio of skills and a freelance attitude.
Through 44 books and thousands of keynotes, I have chased many things: innovation, market trends, and technological velocity. But looking back from Year 36, the most successful pivot I ever made wasn’t financial or professional.
It was the pivot toward focusing on my family.
In this high-speed global economy, it is easy to become a slave to the “next big thing.” It’s easy to chase the never-ending quest for career success. It’s easy to lose yourself in all the opportunities that are swirling around you.
But the reality of a meaningful life is that the greatest ROI is always time. You will never look back and regret the hours you invested in your family instead of the greater career success you might have had.
To make my freelance voyage of nearly four decades work, I had to be disciplined. Over time, I developed a set of “10 Rules for Working at Home” to protect that time, and wrote them into a post in 2002. My favorite is Rule #10: “Remember why you are doing this. You’re working at home to be with your family. Don’t let the work get in the way of that!”
I remember a crucial call years ago where my two-year-old son came running into the office screaming because he’d banged his finger. I was frantic, trying to maintain my “professional” corporate persona. The woman on the other end just laughed — she was working from home too. In that moment, the “nomadic worker” reality hit home: the “interruption” isn’t a bug in the system; it’s the primary feature.
If you are navigating the freelance economy today, don’t hide the chaos.
Embrace it.
Make it a part of your voyage.
Design a career that flexes around life, not a life that shatters when work gets busy.
The journey continues tomorrow. Are you ready for the next pivot?
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The image in today's photo is typical of the early days of Jim's life in his home office.
#Time #ROI #Family #Freelance #Balance #HomeOffice #Pivot #Lessons #Priorities #Life #Work #Career #Wisdom #Journey #Nomadic #Entrepreneurship #Choice
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/03/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-1-the-greatest-roi-is-time/
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Sevilla's coach Matias Almeyda criticizes the focus on sports amid ongoing wars, highlighting the absurdity of prioritizing missiles over essential needs like food and education. #Priorities #WarAndPeace
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Ah, yes, because who needs pesky weather predictions when you can predict the future with a crystal ball? 🔮 Let's just dismantle the "leading" research center—I'm sure the climate will sort itself out. 🌎👍 #Priorities
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/white-house-pushes-to-dismantle-leading-climate-and-weather-research-center #ClimateChange #CrystalBall #FuturePredictions #ResearchPriorities #EnvironmentalConcerns #HackerNews #ngated -
🎧🛠️ Oh wow, someone discovered open source means they can tinker with apps! 🙄 Is this a groundbreaking revelation or just a hobbyist's tantrum over ads? Maybe next time, focus more on the podcast than the code. #Priorities 😂
https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/podcasts-you-altered-the-deal-so-i-will-alter-your-app/ #open_source #tinkering #apps #podcasting #revelations #hobbyists #HackerNews #ngated -
Young #contentcreators drive #messaging on #Project2025: ‘It just needed to be out there’
The #playbook of #conservative #priorities has been #championed by some #creators as a #guide to less #governmentoversight and #slammed by others as an #facist/#authoritarian #takeover of #America.
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This topic and framing has been on my mind for a long time, but the recent news story about Vermont is relevant.
Our oceans have piled up a disproportionate share of heat. It takes an unfathomable amount of energy to have bumped ocean heat as much as we have, and it's not stopping. Amazing the land hasn't long ago cooked, but, speaking metaphorically, there is starting to be no more place for all that trapped heat to go.
Meanwhile an unfathomable ocean of money has piled up from years of rewarding oil companies for the service of putting fossil fuels into play, never for a moment considering or charging for the environmental externality of climate change. No accident that. They knew the consequence. They pumped tons of money, enough to control media empires, enough to corrupt and outright buy politicians, into distracting and denying and defrauding.
Buying public image and buying politicians in this way was reasoned cheaper than what any sane person would ask if they new the truth about the naked greed, about the willingness to knowingly stoke an existential risk to humanity.
Vermont is not being extreme here, though much corrupt money will go into focus groups and A/B testing and AI bots designed to help us think so. What Vermont asks is a drop in the bucket of their wealth. Probably they, and all of us, should pro-actively take back every dime. In that light, it's hard to see Vermont as being at all extreme. They have, even now, responded modestly.
A modern equivalent of pitchforks at the castle gates, though far more poiite. The castle will fight back. It's well motivated and very well capitalized. But its ethical position is the inverse. We must remember that as we see that retaliation play out. The oil companies have no moral authority here, but will tell us they are victims and faithful public servants. That will be lies. We need to say that out loud and frequently to remind ourselves and inform others.
It's not just an issue of penalizing oil companies. There is evil here that needs punishment, but we are not doing that yet. We probably should, but such vengeance would detract and we don't have the luxury of time.
For now the key thing is this, and we must not lose focus: Money is how we set priority. We need to set the collective compass to right, recalibrating for survival.
There needs to be ZERO priority to mining oil. The vast wealth, the ocean of prioritization chits, of individual dollars, that represent represent our colective and ill-informed giving of public priority and permission need to be taken back and redirected immediately from the hucksters who knowingly misled us. A fraud was perpetrated, but that's water under the bridge. The priority and permission that this ocean of money represents must be applied as fully and immediately as possible toward the endeavor of human survival.
Even that may not be enough. But we cannot as an allegedly intelligent species indulge any tolerance of leaving them any control of society's priority if we want to survive at all.
There is no greater urgency nor higher priority.
What Vermont has done is minimal and appropriate. Responses to problems must be proportionate. To do less would not be conservative, THAT would be radical, as it would be meeting an existential threat with a shrug. The other states, the ones doing nothing, are the ones acting radically, by letting these hucksters continue to operate and profit on making the problem worse.
#climate #externality #externalities #morality #responsibility #law #FossilFuels #ExtremeWeather #priorities #economics #sustainability #ExtremeWeatherEvents #fraud #TheyKnew
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"If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life." — Rumi — — — #Rumi #quote #quotes #money #priorities #subservient #beholden #powerless
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‘Like #WinningtheLottery’: #MikeJohnson’s #Ascent #Excites #ConservativeChristians.
The new #speakeroftheHouse is a #SouthernBaptist #Extremist who #embodies #evangelical #beliefs and #priorities, with a long #history of #work against #abortion and #gayrights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/politics/michael-johnson-house-speaker-evangelicalism.html