Puerto Vallarta used to be a great tourist destination and Cervantes used to be not s murderous piece of excrement:
Smoke rises from CJNG Cartel attacks and checkpoints across Puerto Vallarta in the Mexican state of Jalisco, following the elimination today of CJNG leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known more commonly as El Mencho. pic.twitter.com/F4BnaCqh6t
This all started in Mexico at the exact same time as the country got a multi-party democracy instead of a one-party pseudo-democracy of the previous 70 years. Today’s party of power in Mexico is owned by the Sinaloa cartel, which is the greatest rival of CJNG. We will see on the news that this is a major government operation against drug trade but it’s simply one cartel killing off another. There is no longer a government in the traditional sense in Mexico.
I’m so sick I had to look up how to spell the word treachery at Klara’s request. I have to cook a turkey in a couple of hours, and I have no idea where to find the energy.
On the positive side, I found a collection of short stories by Spanish authors titled 2030. These are mostly authors of conservative sensibilities who were inspired in their writing by the desire to mock the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals.” Well, at least they are trying, that’s got to count for something.
Wasn’t this creepy misanthrope allowed to purchase an accessory baby recently?
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.” pic.twitter.com/vRuVnnmzjB
Tomorrow the Orthodox celebrate the Forgiveness Vespers. You approach every parishioner in turn and ask forgiveness. It’s an exercise in humility and kindness.
My mother called me to remind me that it’s very important to go to Forgiveness Vespers. She told me to ask forgiveness for her because she’s not going.
It is not easy to recover the religious feeling after it’s broken for several generations.
People are starved for beauty in every aspect of life. Since I decided to express my creative side in my outfits, I get stopped by strangers daily, telling me how much they love the look. Women roll down the windows of their vehicles to yell, “Beautiful!” Support workers plant themselves by the entrance every morning. “Seeing you puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day!” they say. Men are less effusive (unless they are in creative fields) because there’s fear of offending but I can see that people are experiencing aesthetic enjoyment. (Men in creative fields are the best because they give detailed analysis along the lines of, “I like how the eye shadow plays onto the detailing on the blouse. Have you considered adding a bit of green to the ensemble?”)
I go for the ultra-feminine look with flouncy skirts, frills, sparklies, and soft velvet dresses with bows. I have this one skirt, it cost me $22, and it looks like a flower with many soft petals that swirl when I move. We are truly fortunate to have access to cheap yet beautiful clothes. I’ll wear that skirt for at least 10 years which is $2 per year. Totally worth it in positive emotions alone.
I’m an extremely messy person in a constant state of expansion and with piles of books everywhere. My only two investments into beauty are the outfits and the dining room table decor that I change monthly.
People often coach precisely in the fields where they are most unsuccessful. Single marriage coaches, business coaches whose only business is their coaching business, academic writing specialists who don’t publish academically. These people go into coaching precisely because they feel a lack in their chosen field. They use clients as a bandaid to put over the suppurating sore of their deficiency.
It’s not true that people who are successful in their field don’t coach. It’s normal to want to share your skill and help others. There are absolutely business coaches who have sold multimillion businesses, for example.
Choose a coach who does it out of abundance and not out of lack is my advice.
Every time one of Klara’s friends sleeps over, I wake up to discover that they have created yet another business idea. There’s a logo, a jingle, a price list, and often uniforms. Of course, they wake me up at the ungodly hour of 7:30 am to sample their wares but it’s a small price to pay for fostering the true spirit of American entrepreneurship.
I’m sick as a dog, my friends. We are experiencing extreme weather changes, and I missed the turn from “wow, very hot, summertime is here” to “bloody cold today again, I’m turning into an icicle.” Went out underdressed, and here’s the result.
In my highly morose state, I had to do blind review for an article. I tried hard to give it a chance but do you know what the absolute walnut of the author did? He quoted the same secondary source 41 times. Long quotes, too. A full 15% of his entire article were quotes from this single source. And the source is not Aristotle or Kant, to put it mildly. I might have expressed my opinion a little too sincerely in the review.
I tend to reject a lot, to be honest. Even when I’m completely healthy. Usually, it’s for these very obvious things like today’s article.
I’m running a little behind on my Q&As, so here’s a good one:
Yes. I had a mentor in my first couple of years on the tenure track. It’s Jonathan, a longtime reader of this blog. He was so helpful. He worked with me on my first book. I had no idea how to make it good enough to publish, and he gave extremely useful suggestions. I had to rewrite parts of it completely. It got a prize from a scholarly organization as their book of the year, so it worked. I still have a two-page list of his foundational principles of academic success that I reread for inspiration every time my enthusiasm dips.
Of course, Jonathan isn’t some random coach. He’s an extremely successful academic who even back then was already widely published and recognized. It was actually really funny how I met him. I came across his blog that he ran under his own name, and I thought it was some academic follower of his and not Jonathan himself.
Such memories this great question brings.
But make sure you don’t go for some individual who couldn’t hack it in academia and is now trying to be a coach in a pursuit at which he failed. Get the person’s CV and ask yourself if that’s the record of publications you want to have at their rank.
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