Everything Yet Nothing

This guy was at a graduation at UCLA I attended. The school is named after him because he donated $200 million haha. One student said they had no idea “the guy was even alive.” He gave a great inspiration speech to the graduates and probably the best speech they’ll ever hear in business. You probably have to spend money to hear that level of a talk normally.

Guess we can thank him for literally everything.

https://samueli.ucla.edu/henry-samueli/

Half the graduates were CS degrees. They’re sure fucked with AI. haha. That degree is so useless now. No one cares.

It took 2 hours to read the students names. It was torture. At another UCSD graduation they had AI read the names but they fucked up and the names were read over each other.

My joke was, hey can I have $20. My kid said, he’d probably only have a five.

Grok said buy some T-Bills. Creating an account required a NOTARY and a physical mail in. Then they have a list of auction dates. I purchased by $X before the auction date. Then the date happens and nothing happens. Days go by. Unlike other orders like stock orders, crypto, you get no notification of the status and there’s no where to even check the status. So I transferred the money out of the source account thinking the order was done/failed and I didn’t “win” the auction. Then days later it draws the full amount and the POS overdraws my bank account because the order happened like 5+ days later.

Then after rushing to refund my account, they mail and say ohhh we couldn’t do the transaction despite over drawing my account. making a huge mess. So I get an overdraft fee yet the transaction didn’t go through?

What a shitty process. Their site looks like mid 1990s too. Someone needs to recode that whole thing.

https://treasurydirect.gov/marketable-securities/treasury-bills/

These dumbfucks keep going “what’s the lowest you will take?” “what is your lowest” . It’s beyond infuriating.

What they’re trying to do is get you to admit the lowest amount you’ll take to lower the price of an item. But why would you ever tell them that? That’s just fucking yourself over. The right way to do it is to just offer a lower price which they will either take or reject. But who the fuck would tell a buyer that number? And why are they so stupid as to even ask that? And if you actually answer the lowest number you’d take, you’re as dumb as they are.

Sometimes I just say price is firm. Sometimes I just say the same price “$20.” Sometimes I give a big explanation on the item is already discounted. The last way is the best way to do it but on some cheap items, it’s just so unbelievable that people can’t come up with $20 for an item. $20 is the new $1 bill. $1-19 is, why even bother selling. You can buy one fast food meal.

seems to be having your own business vs. working for other aholes. But the problem is you pay your own self employment tax and have to spend a lot more time at tax time. Otherwise, it’s the way to go. Just don’t hire a bunch of woke assholes. haha