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Computer Science is still a craft. The tools have just changed. The hoe was good, but then came the tractor that could run all day, but someone had to know where and when to plant.

🗞️ Weekend review: Here's the tension nobody wants to say out loud: claims and billing complaints just jumped 85% while buying signals climbed too, and those are the same people. The consumer isn't choosing between trusting you and needing you — 👉 Full brief: https://advisorlisten.com

2 July

Gen X test. Name the med without smiling from a memory.

29 May

I'm in a Target store. Overhead: I hear the Bee-Gees singing "More than a woman" I officially became old today.

19 May

How did we ever live without being able to make a Disco Ball version of your headshot?

advisorlisten.comThe conference calendar is a leading indicatorWhat this year's lineup says about where the work is going. The industry is specializing faster than the conference circuit can keep up.

The conference calendar is a leading indicator. A pattern read from AdvisorListen. advisorlisten.com/r/conference...

A new Listen Extra from AdvisorListen. Eighty-four trillion dollars is on the move. The Great Wealth Transfer is the fifth such wave the advisor profession has lived through. The dialect changes every decade. The work is identical. Most of the consulting decks are selling the wrong remedy. 🧵

“The advisor who tries to author the estate plan is the advisor who gets sued. The advisor who learns to convene, audit, match, and translate keeps the family across three generations.” Four conversations. Most advisors do three of them badly and skip the fourth.

advisorlisten.comMost advisors will lose the inheritance they are trying to keep. Here is why, and what works.Eighty-four trillion dollars is on the move. The Great Wealth Transfer is the fifth such wave the advisor profession has lived through. The patterns that survive are older than the software being sold to address it.

The fourth is the translation conversation. Sit with the family after the attorney drafts. Read the documents out loud. Tell them what each clause means for the life they are going to live. That is the hour that earns the next generation's loyalty.

8 May

Jesus, help me with my Mac Mini...

2 May

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2 May

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30 Apr

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25 Apr

Southern Life. Saturday at Cooters Pond!

23 Apr

Thoughts on the logo?

markfair.comMark Fair — A Tribute | Montgomery, AlabamaA tribute to Mark Fair of Montgomery, Alabama. Celebrating a life well lived.

23 Apr

@danieljoye.bsky.social Susan Fair performance within two weeks of her husband's MarkFair.com death. This is love.

markfair.comMark Fair — A Tribute | Montgomery, AlabamaA tribute to Mark Fair of Montgomery, Alabama. Celebrating a life well lived.

23 Apr

file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/3f/15/AB6DAE27-D42F-44CA-AE40-97B805E62CEA/MOV_9252.mov Susan Fair performance within two weeks of her husband's MarkFair.com death. This is love.

20 Apr

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19 Apr

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19 Apr

How to know if you're in the South

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18 Apr

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17 Apr

17 Apr

Unboxing video

Draft: The "Gen Z" label isn't the problem — the taxonomy is. A 45-yr-old career switcher needs advice closer to a 25-yr-old first-jobber than to his own peers. Life stage beats birth year. For advisors: what you sort for shapes what you notice.

Interview with Richard Stallman. One month before 9/11. It was such a great show and special moment that we did some editing and replayed it every Saturday. Then 9/11 hit and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was swiftly renamed The Patriot Act. bit.ly/GeekTalkAugu...

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The show was later canceled. We had T-Shirts printed up with the source code that when compiled could decrypt a DVD. Just ownership of the code was equal to being caught with a Stinger Missle. We were the OGs then and still now. My "Wing Man" (Dr. Eric Lewis, DVD) passed away from Covid in 2021.

Post 6 of 6 These races survived decades of ownership changes, format shifts, and the slow death of small-town speedways across the South. 62 years in, the Alabama 200 still draws 40+ Pro Late Models chasing $10,000 and a wooden bear. Some things just endure. 🐻🏁 #HuntForTheBear

Post 5 of 6 Two hours south in Kinston, AL sits South Alabama Speedway - home of The Rattler. Built as a half-mile oval, measured wrong, turned out to be 4/10 mile. Didn’t matter. When the Rattler 100 came back in 1984, 7,500 fans showed up. Another 1,500 got turned away.

Post 4 of 6 Famous winners of the Alabama 200 “Hunt for the Bear”: 🏁 Richard Petty 🏁 Bobby Allison 🏁 Donnie Allison 🏁 Neil Bonnett 🏁 Red Farmer 🏁 Chase Elliott (2013 AND 2015) 🏁 Augie Grill (5 wins, “Mr. Montgomery”) Chase Elliott won it before he ever won a Cup race. That bear trophy was legit.

Post 3 of 6 The Alabama Gang got their roots here. Bobby and Donnie Allison raced Montgomery regularly. They eventually talked their Florida buddy Red Farmer into coming along, lured by the payouts. That’s basically the origin story of one of NASCAR’s most famous crews, told on a half-mile AL oval.

Post 2 of 6 The track opened as dirt in 1953, paved in 1956. It hosted actual NASCAR Grand National Cup Series races. Richard Petty won there in 1967. Bobby Allison in 1968. This wasn’t a backwater bullring — it was a legitimate stop on the national circuit.

Post 1 of 6 🐻 The Alabama 200 at Montgomery Motor Speedway has been running since 1960. 62 editions. One hand-carved bear trophy. And a winner’s list that reads like a NASCAR Hall of Fame ballot. Thread incoming. 🏁

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That chaos? It found your clients. Predatory ads. Misinformation. Algorithm-driven panic. The internet I warned about in 1991 is now inside every inbox your policyholders open. AdvisorListen exists because someone has to watch the noise so you can focus on the people.

I became a civilian, then a Professional Member of the ACM. Bucket list item: ACM Distinguished Member – not for being the smartest in the room, but for 30+ years of actually living the Code of Ethics while everyone else monetized the chaos I predicted.

9 days later I missed my weigh-in by exactly 1 pound. I was inducted into the USAF Fatboy Club – the lowest-ranking officer (O-1) ever admitted. They had to add a new sign-in page for ranks below O-3. Just for my name. One pound. One page. One legend. 🫡

We were .mil. The plumbing was .net. The utopians were .edu. Then .com showed up. I turned to my sergeant and said: “The White Man is coming. He’s bringing barbed wire, lawyers, and eventually a CAPTCHA your grandmother can’t solve.” I was right.

I left the USAF 9 days after someone asked me to add “.com” to the main DNS servers. I asked: “What does .com mean?” “Commercial.” “Does this mean civilians will be on the internet?” That was the day I knew everything was about to go sideways. 🧵