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1/ Reflecting on 2018, I want to share a story:

Opendoor is now 1,200 strong fulltime, plus 800 vendors and 8,000 people helping us service homes

We invested over $100 million in the communities we operate this year

This is about one person who inspired me, Heather...
2/ Back when Opendoor was just in Phoenix, Heather applied on Craigslist to clean our homes - literally scrubbing toilets.

She was in a tough place and wanted to prove to her son she could provide for the family
3/ At the time, our “strategy” was to keep giving our vendors work until they stopped asking for more or quality suffered

I later learned Heather was working 18 to 20 hours a day cleaning homes

Right as she was at her breaking point, she decided to hire help
4/ It turns out Heather is an amazing entrepreneur. She just needed the right platform to launch off of

Today she employs 50 people across 6 of Opendoor’s markets

I hope team will enable hundreds of Heathers in the future to build successful local businesses. Thankful for that
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1/ I realized something earlier that may be obvious. For a long time in America we tribalized with our values. Different values, different tribes. But over the last 10 years we’ve started to conflate values and beliefs. And now our beliefs are tied to our identities.
2/ And this is really bad! Because while values are pretty static, beliefs should be changeable!
3/ A lot of polarization is because we are losing the ability - at a lizard brain level - to change our minds.

Our brains tell us we’re under threat and all of our friends will leave us if we change our minds on something.
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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Hello, I am Edna Matta. I was born in #Ibague, known as #Colombia’s #CityofMusic. A beautiful place near snow-covered volcanos (Ruiz, Santa Isabel and Tolima), large expanses of paramo forest, lakes and streams where a diverse array of animal and plant species coexist
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How greed and fear affect you?

People show some ponzi scheme and say monthly 10% income - Greed kicks in and people put lot of money to become rich overnight!

Society say your kid will lag behind if he is not in top school - Fear Kicks in and you pay lacks on nursery kid.

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Example : Many people just reject to pay some small amount to learn about markets but get in to such schemes and lose out heavy :(
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Great question, Frederik! Thanks for asking! So... a few thoughts about outlining an arc of a comic book series... which is, in many ways, THE HARDEST PART OF THE WHOLE JOB for me!
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[THREAD] In light of the recent Medicaid work requirement legislation, I felt compelled to share some thoughts. I am far from a policy expert, but I have had the opportunity to care for patients on Medicaid and hear their stories. A quick overview /1:
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