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Wise people always say, “Never be the smartest person in the room,” so we’ve got that covered!!
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The blogs blend humor, storytelling, and insightful commentary about the experience of attending top-industry events as an outsider trying to learn. I document what is said (and not said).
Late and Great Prep for Exiting + Buy Outs
TLDR: Kelly attends an early-morning startup event on preparing businesses for mergers, acquisitions, and exits, covering EBITDA valuations, customer concentration risks, earn-outs, and carve-outs, while reflecting on her own entrepreneurial journey.
Duty Calls: Custom(s) Fandom for Flexport's Tariff Talk
TLDR: The author attends Flexport's tariff update webinar covering Section 232 changes that simplified steel and aluminum duty calculations, learning how the new rules affect importers' costs across different product categories.
Super Terriffic Indo-Pacific Tech Policy Conference
TLDR: An extremely dry Indo-Pacific tech policy conference covering US-Korea-Japan-China digital regulation and cybersecurity, where multiple attendees were visibly falling asleep during dense governmental panel discussions.
Across Town for Some Leadership and Equality
TLDR: A women's leadership and entrepreneurship event where Kelly arrived an hour late, found the first workshop on "bad business ideas" unhelpful, switched rooms to a career narrative rewriting exercise, and sat through an AI 101 resume talk, with the main takeaway being two consecutive events telling her to replace "hope" with action.
Forecasting Fundable Founders
TLDR: The author attends a startup funding event featuring speakers on capital access, company culture, and acquisitions, including an inspiring blind PhD speaker advocating for accessibility in tech entrepreneurship.
Breaking Even as OpenAI Patronizes its Power Audience… and the Handsome, Bullied, Gaslit Mayor Throws a GPT Hail Mary
TLDR: Kelly attends an OpenAI workshop for small businesses and is frustrated that the content is extremely basic, noting that even the 70-year-olds in attendance already know how to use ChatGPT, while the mayor reads a ChatGPT-generated speech at the event.
Coercively Tricked into a Predatory Date… Plus 5th Dimension Goals and “KT Dreams”
TLDR: The author recounts a disturbing predatory date experience, pivots to discussing 5th dimension spirituality and personal growth goals, and shares insights from dream journaling as creative fuel for her brand.
Forced Behavior At Scale? Big-Tech’s Ritual Blueprints for Predatory Control Systems with Pizza
TLDR: A university panel on how big-tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon use internal rituals -- dogfooding, design sprints, OKRs, hackathons, and pizza-team sizing -- to force behavior at scale, with the author offering a skeptical, culture-critical commentary on corporate control systems.
Abandoning Ship of Jack & Rose’s Mom’s Mom-Group and the Secret Agent Mans
TLDR: Author quits a toxic moms' group led by a manipulative organizer and then joins a live-streamed AI agent coding tutorial that suffers from brutal lag issues, reinforcing her commitment to setting better boundaries with her time and communities.
Proposing to the White House: Unmasking Manipulation Through AI Education
TLDR: Kelly submits her final proposal to the White House AI innovation contest, pitching an AI-powered content awareness tool that teaches K-12 students to recognize digital manipulation in real-time rather than simply censoring content.
Will the SEC Finally Capitulate to the Inescapable Grip of Diamond Hands? An MMTLP Press Conference Confronting Years of Regulatory Negligence and Collusion
TLDR: Author live-blogs an MMTLP press conference held outside the SEC in DC, where retail investors and advocates detail how FINRA allowed unauthorized trading, froze shareholders' positions, and colluded with Wall Street to cover up naked short selling affecting tens of thousands of investors.
Scorched by Six Supportless Dicks at Xfinity Hell
TLDR: A frustrated rant about spending 12+ hours over four days dealing with six Xfinity customer service agents who ghosted, overcharged, shut off her phone, and broke every promise -- a case study in how terrible corporate customer service has become.
Practicing Proposals for the White House: AI Education Solutions for Youth
TLDR: The author participates in White House office hours to refine her AI education challenge proposal, gathering feedback on formatting and strategy as she develops her youth-focused AI learning platform concept.
The Best Vibes from the White House Office Hours Regarding AI EDU 4 YOUTH
TLDR: The author finally attends White House-affiliated office hours for an AI education competition for youth, finding the breakout rooms welcoming and well-organized, and learns she qualifies as a homeschool educator to submit a project.
First Time Home Buyer, Again? Let’s Learn
TLDR: The author attends a first-time homebuyer seminar covering pre-qualification, down payment assistance programs, the seven steps to getting your keys, and market statistics, realizing how many financial resources exist that most people never learn about.
Casual Non-Emergency Public Service Announcement: Why is Linkedy So Spooked Out by my Human Trafficking Post? Then? Off to the White House’s AI 4 Youth Office Hours
TLDR: A quick post about LinkedIn glitching suspiciously when the author tried to investigate who viewed her human trafficking awareness post, before heading off to the White House AI Education for Youth office hours.
MOTHER WOLF TARGETS: Landfill Avoidance, Fashion Passion, The ‘Snowpiercer’ Breakdown, Orphanage Reflections, and Bean Farm Memories (Upon the Ma’amtrak Express)
TLDR: Kelly documents a train trip covering topics from landfill avoidance and fashion sustainability to orphanage reflections and gaming nostalgia, weaving together personal stories about parenting, travel observations, and cultural commentary.
Pledge Signed, But Still Wondering… Who is Vetting Imagery in our Country’s AI-for-Youth Content? Are We Pre-"Year of Depends"?
TLDR: Kelly signs the White House AI Education pledge and critiques the lack of oversight in AI-generated youth content imagery, shares her own edutainment projects (fairytale rewrites, AI literacy songs), and documents how AI chatbots dismissed her pattern-recognition concerns before admitting their training biases.
My Turn to Speak at the Maybe Mayor’s Breakfast: Vulnerable Youth Need Stable Parents/Homes… NOT “Offsite Weekly City-Sponsored Meetups” for High Schoolers (Middle Schoolers Welcome, Too)…!?
TLDR: Kelly attends a mayoral candidate's community breakfast event, sharing her perspective on vulnerable youth needing stable homes rather than city-sponsored offsite meetups, while reflecting on local government outreach and leadership.
Theorizing Global Logistics: One Law-Led Maritime Panel at a Time
TLDR: Notes from maritime law panels covering global shipping investments, US-China shipyard competition, tariffs, trade wars, and long-term infrastructure planning, connecting it to Kelly's theories about e-commerce and global trade futures.
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