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The hardest thing in life is to see the world as it really is. We suffer through filters and biases and narrow vision that only sees thing in small slices... it's hard to grasp the whole. In politics, authenticity is the coin of the realm. People believe in those they perceive...
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At MIT, they've done a preliminary study of 54 participants using AI. Want to know what happens to your brain when using AI for a writing task? Here we go. From the abstract, the researchers explored the "neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing...
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Over the weekend, I gave a seminar in Dallas that went very well. I have a sense of humor and occasionally use a local politician as the target of a snarky comment, which I did. People laughed and agreed. A woman came up to me in the intermission and said to me, "You just told...
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Newly added to my seminar is a series of slides helping candidates define their land of milk honey better. It's the aspect of campaigns, I've discovered, that troubles new candidates more than the rest of the preparation for the campaign. I break it down into principles first...
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College is a simple idea: you sign up, shell out a ton of money, buy and read the assigned books, and then take tests proving that you understand the assigned books. I dropped out of college third semester in. But I read a lot. The image you see here is just the snapshot of some...
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Back in early 2015, before President Trump got in the presidential primary, Scott Walker was surging in the polls because he fought back against the unions. He gave a speech at CPAC where he touted how he fought back against the unions successfully a few times in Wisconsin and...
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Last night, I went to a campaign's internal meeting to help them get organized for the coming fight to beat a bad incumbent in the Texas Republican primary next March. A dozen people attended - all devoted patriots, all of them ready to do what it takes to help win this battle...
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Many Republican politicians profess to be Christian. And maybe they are - that's for God to determine. But I know that many covet what isn't theirs. They spend your money to enhance their political future. They ignore that it's wrong to take from one person to help another...
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A guy named Hugh showed me a long time ago that it's my responsibility to set the expectations of others in regard to my performance. About a decade later, a guy named Ryan introduced me to the Scotty Principle. It's named after the Star Trek character. The conversation would go...
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I don't believe much in paid advertising. For example, I always know who charges far too much for their product by how many times I see their commercials on TV. Which is insurance and pharmaceuticals. Way overpriced. Sorry Flo. I believe that anyone who develops a product learns...
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I had an epiphany today in regard to persuasion. Persuasion has a bit to do with logic and far more to do with community. That never occurred to me before, but now that I see it this way, it connects quite a few dots. If I have a belief about something, and it means a great deal...
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You have the right to determine how you live within your means and capability, and not have that robbed from you by others. Let's call that "the pursuit of happiness," one of our natural rights as reasoned by Locke. Life, liberty, and... property. We spend a great deal of time...
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In my own personal life, I know that I seldom - if ever - have the right to tell anyone what to do. If I want someone to do something, it's my job to invite and entice them to do the thing I want them to do. Nobody is my employee. The municipal elections just happened in Texas...
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On a micro scale, assimilation is as simple as adopting the culture of a group you're in. School children do this all of the time. A kid moves to a new school, and if a group is into a certain thing, say pickleball, the new kid might learn about it begin doing it to fit in. When...
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I'm in the midst of updating daily what happens in our Texas capitol. I see the thousands of bills that are filed during this session and how our legislators vote on the bills that make it to the floor for a vote. I see the trends. I can, by volume, compare the legislators to...
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