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Today, the personal finance content niche is absolutely ginormous. You can’t open up YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram without encountering an influencer who gives advice on how to make and save money. Today’s guest Philip Taylor anticipated this content explosion all the way back in 2011. That’s when he launched FinCon, a conference specifically designed for personal finance content creators. That first year he attracted around 250 attendees, but over the next decade it grew into the largest conference in this niche, with over 3,000 tickets sold.

Rolling Stone Culture Writer Miles Klee found himself at the eye of a right wing media shitstorm this week after writing a review of the new film Sound of Freedom. It’s the story of Department of Homeland Security Agent Tim Ballard (played by The Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel) who saves a young brother and sister from a child sex trafficking ring in Colombia, and eventually goes rogue to bring the whole thing down.

As a longtime San Francisco resident, it’s been strange to watch the city become a political flashpoint. Youtube videos rack up 2 million views calling SF “one of the most dangerous places to live”. The NY Post declares “Nowhere in San Francisco is safe from crime”. Andrew Callaghan records open-air fentanyl use and a carjacker stealing a pizza delivery man’s Prius “within 90 seconds of being in San Francisco.” Upon learning I live in SF, my grandma’s rural Michigan friends ask “How is everything out there?

Last week, Indie Wire published a ranking of the best comedic films of the 21st Century. The list…well, it sucks. But it did generate a lot of good chatter in my corners of social media, reminiscing about some of the outstanding comedies released since 2000. My own top 10 reminded me of what an absolute force Will Ferrell was in the Aughts, depicting some of the most hilarious and memorable characters of cinematic comedy, like Jacoby Mugatu, Frank the Tank, Ron Burgundy, Brennan Huff and Ricky Bobby.

This post explores one of my favorite hacks in SerenityOS. I don’t recommend doing this in your codebase, but it has worked for us so far. :^) size_t and ssize_t are common types used in many POSIX APIs. According to POSIX, they are used as follows: In practice, ssize_t is essentially a “signed size_t”. Since we’re building the whole operating system, including the standard C library ourselves, we’re also responsible for declaring all the common system types, including size_t and ssize_t.

On this week’s Moment of Zen, we discuss many of the themes from this newsletter: egalitarianism eats the world, Christianity’s moral innovation, and the theme for this week’s post—how Slave Morality won. On Cognitive Revolution, we did a deep dive on Stable Attribution with Anton Troynikov Note: This is part 1 of 3 of my attempt to summarize Brett Andersen’s ideas. In this three part series I quote him at length.

Watch/listen here: “When we look at the experimental data, weak ties are better, on average, for job mobility than strong ties,” says Sinan Aral, a management professor at MIT and co-author of a new paper detailing the study's results, which involved millions of LinkedIn users. The old saying is, "It's not what you know, but who." The idea is that personal connections are more responsible for professional success than merit or ability.

The other day on my Discord server, a user asked whether a great book could be turned into a great movie or not. If it could not, then why exactly would it be hard-to-impossible to adapt great books to a different medium? From a Certain Point of View is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a paid su… ncG1vNJzZmiklZa%2Fr7XNoJibp6WpurDCyJ6qZ6ull8C1rcKkZZynnWS9cLTOsGStnaKnxm6zyKWjopmdqHqjvsCzoKVlo528uL%2BMoaaw

A guest post by Kelly Edmiston How the Billy Graham Rule Ruins Relationships: The over-sexualization of women in the Church. Disclaimers: Up to this point and with the facts that are known, I do not think Matt Chandler sinned by having a friendship with a woman in his Church. I believe an issue that has been overlooked and is significant is the over-sexualization of women in this situation. First, a few things about me.