💎🤚Bad news folks!

You’re playing a game of chance using split-testing.

Half of you are about to get rickrolled and lose. The other half will survive to fight learn another day, rewarded for your curiosity. Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox will continue weekly until a lone survivor is crowned.

If you win, you’ll have bragging rights or survivor’s guilt. You’ll be featured in a short bio in Forward (Let’s all pray that you’re as interesting as you are lucky). Last but not least, I’ll ship you an Infinity Gauntlet for your trophy case.

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The only question that remains: Will you survive? *SNAP*

I Feel Lucky!

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🚀📅 Must Attend:

Buffalo Startup Week launched yesterday! This year’s conference hosts 30+ events featuring top talent from around the world. There are tracks on Startup 101, Game Development, Design, Legal, Finance, and Software Development. It’s a grassroots organized event, please use this click-to-tweet to help raise awareness on twitter 🐦📢.

❄💵 Must Watch:

I Was a Teenage Drug Lord Making Millions in NYC

The inspiration for Uber, DoorDash, GrubHub, and (Buffalo’s own) BraidBabes. The plot catalyst for Half-Baked (everyone’s favorite PSA about equine diabetes 🐴🍬). By the time he was 18 Coss was making 3 million a year via his revolutionary, tri-state drug delivery service. Presently, he’s building a fitness startup named CONBODY that’s raised >$250K in seed capital. I’ve been researching prison reform and entrepreneurship post-incarceration since attending TEDxAttica last year. This autobiographical oral history is worth the watch.

Reply if you’re curious about the visceral experience of being inside a maximum security facility. I’ll share what I learned from the impactful men who reside there.

🚂🎻 Must Listen:

Enjoy the raw emotion captured in this impromptu performance of Cold Beer by freighthopping Canadian🍁 crust punk Jesse Stewart. See if you can make to the end of the track without falling off the wagon 🍺.

If you enjoyed, toss him a few bucks for another Ice House 🤢 via:

Paypal: 2poor4soap@gmail.com

BTC: 3C3YhZPTQetrRkH3XxKXYxMM9XqUQQ9YzR

ETH: 0xe11742F9c07D82bc3A36d836CcA0e20045F6d085

That’s right, he has crypto addresses — bet you didn’t see that coming.

📖📈 Must Read:

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly is an Optimistic Futurist. This article laid out the future business model of being a content creator in 2008. If you sell things, you should read it.

🥫🍲 Must Try:

Fall is in the air, that means canned soup for lunch! But, I hate struggling to free the gelatinous cylinder of soup. It really sours my appetite. Shake well and pat the bottom of your soup can to easily pour its well mixed contents into your bowl. I hope this makes your lunch just a little more enjoyable.

🤝Closing Thoughts:

Americans share more commonalities than differences. We should be working in solidarity to defend our democratic republic’s ideals. Politicians, the media, and algorithmic Filter Bubbles aren’t the only actors trying to polarize us. There are active psychological operations (psyops) targeting us (you and me). We lack a meaningful national dialog about influence operations, but you can help change that. Start with this video on how the KGB convinced American Media Companies to report that HIV/AIDS was an American made bioweapon targeted at our own citizens. Then get real curious and share your new found knowledge with your friends.

Commit to reaching out to your family (despite their latest Facebook post). Start a chat with your neighbors (despite their lawn signs). Building lines of communication is the first step toward deescalating extremist viewpoints. Violent extremism is driven by creating an “Us” and a “Them”. You defeat it by realigning people so they see each other as humans or part of a more inclusive version of “Us”. The best way to do that is to spend time together (shared experiences) or talking about your common ground. Humans are born without agenda. So that means Hate of another group is learned behavior. We can all learn acceptance as well.

With Kindness and Respect,

Clark

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