All the crowd nonsense aside I find it fascinating how hundreds of years ago someone came up with idea of Kumbh Mela aligned to Jupiter’s movements, and how the Maha Kumbh Mela happening 144 years apart is aligned to all planets being visible in straight line. Like who the heck thought of all this nearly a century ago and how did they do it?

I feel bad for Ukraine. The lack of support from Europe and over reliance on America has put them in an untenable situation at this point. There is no chance that Europe can and will come to their rescue – heck they won’t even be able to protect themselves first at this point. And with current administration, things look rather bleak for Ukraine.

The impact around dc area in federal space is real. Eventually ancillary companies will be impacted too. My wife works in a group that makes solutions for federal space in her company and they have already lost half their pipeline contracts thanks to the morons. Right now she is not impacted but the impact to her company is real so who knows anything! We are in stressful few months.

Somebody asked me today, “Whats your leadership style?”. The context of the question was that I seem to have high approval ratings for a manager (har! har!) and this peer was curious what I do differently. My response was I am not doing anything differently. I just let my team be. I trust my team to do their jobs and if they don’t do their jobs consistently then I step in to help navigate challenges. I do not solve every problem for my team, nor do I give them lots and lots of feedback. I let them fail in front of other leaders but I back them up. I let them peruse a bad idea for a while before they come to the same conclusion that I had right at beginning. My job is not to manage my people, but help them get better at managing themselves and owning their work. Almost every report of mine struggles the first few weeks with me, but when they finally start seeing that I trust them and I back them, they start taking ownership on their own and start delivering! Leadership is not some kind of a magic formula ya’all, so stop reading those books. Start with a position of trust and go from there and figure out how it goes. There is no secret formula that works for all, and no two people are alike. And just make peace that some people will hate you no matter what.

#leadership #management

The nation of “checks and balances” is finding out very quickly they have never existed in the first place. And everyone’s looking at each other with Pikachu “why is no one protesting?” face. Lol you stupid fucks, the time show your intelligence was at voting booth in November, not worry about your moral stance on Gaza. Idiots.

It turns out that when i exported out of micro.blog, not all of my photos actually exported out. Not that I care too much about what I uploaded on Micro much, but its a bummer. I have already deleted my micro.blog account so yeah only thing left to do is delete all the posts from my blog as well now coz there is nothing.

Let me say this. I am watching the complete silence from 2028 democratic hopefuls as nothing but cowardice and submission. The silences from Obamas and Bidens and Clintons speak a lot. If there is an election I don’t want to fucking hear from any of these people anymore. Only the young can save this country.

While the richest crony in the world is getting access to all my IRS data, social security and whatever the fuck he wants to know abou me with no oversight, rules or regulations in a shameless takeover, I am somehow supposed to be concerned that DeepSeek is sending my data to China. Yeah right the fuck I care right about that.