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There is a small risk of gastric rupture that may occur if the pressure is too high, but even then, the benefit of saving someone's life outweighs the risks.

When Jonathan worked at Microsoft, he met Heather. He was with Microsoft for 12 years.

Joshua Dahn is the Head of School at Ad Astra, a private school in Los Angeles co-founded by Elon Musk. Josh was previously a teacher a Mirman School in Los Angeles, and before that a teacher for Teach for America.

For Jamie Morton, he says that weirdly enough, he doesn’t feel that weird about it. He does think it’s great that his 60 year old dad feels comfortable enough to share his innermost fantasies with the world.

One positive step is that 84% of young millennials were taught by their families that everyone should be equal. Yet, only 37% of that group talk about race within their families.

He calls her English, her new nickname, and says that she suits black and that her breasts are better than Laura’s— his assistant with him in the casino. This is another time when stating Belinda’s breasts are better than another character’s.

The book is like a memoir of their experiences of overcoming time management challenges, and then targeting and implementing changes so they can spend time on the things that are important to them. Both of them struggled with making time, especially in the tech industry.

Some of the principles are neglected because they don’t fit a company’s priority. Also, it’s when companies are short-term oriented rather than long-term, which is why a great majority of top companies have declined.

For Joseph, the first story is his love of a question. Specifically, what was there before the Universe? He was around the age of 10, living in Texas. He associates his time of life with this question, possibly due to a long bus ride and being outdoors a lot. He states he wasn’t wracking his brain for an answer — because there isn’t an answer — but he loved the question because it put himself into a calmed and simple state of mind that he enjoyed.

Playing off of his first story’s question, the world view of nothing is something has shaped his life because at the the core of our personality, there is an existence of Self. He thinks of a principle of the underlying creation, whatever that is, was his world view and early unconscious practice. Joseph states that our entire lives, consciously or unconsciously, are an attempt to move back toward that since it’s our original nature.

You can have ownership over anything, but you have to want it. You have to be the type of person that assumes responsibility, instead of looking to place blame, and to find excuses.

Mat shares his motivation behind building SwimUniversity, a niche site around swim pool and hot tube care, which was making $400k/y, pre-Amazon's cut on affiliate commissions.