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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).
Studying Smitten Supporters at the ‘Seahawks Super Bowl Trophy Day’
TLDR: The author attends Seattle's Seahawks Super Bowl trophy celebration as a curious outsider, observing the mass day-drinking, fleeting euphoria, corporate beer sponsorships, and unsustainable hype -- questioning what fans truly get from sports fandom while busking outside the stadium afterward.
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.
Permission to Fail on Social Media
TLDR: Attending a friend's first speaking event about growing social media influence, covering identity shifting, overcoming fear of being on camera, video hook strategies, and how posting consistently for 20 minutes a day can lead to 10k+ followers.
AI Underutilized in Education and Healthcare: Observing Bored Tips amid Board Tricks
TLDR: A day covering an education networking session on workforce skills and student engagement, followed by a healthcare AI event exploring how artificial intelligence remains underutilized in both education and medical settings despite its transformative potential.
Marriages & Acquisitions (PLUS Bubble Gum Accessory + The Harmonica Debuts)
TLDR: Kelly takes her daughter to a wedding expo and a clothing swap, then debuts playing harmonica while busking downtown, earning $79 in tips, followed by an AA meeting and country music dancing with bubble gum as her alcohol substitute.
Benevolent Busking Breakthroughs while Managing Marvelous Mediocracy
TLDR: The author shares tips and patterns from street busking experiences, attends coworking events, and navigates career fairs while balancing mediocrity and ambition in her entrepreneurial journey.
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.
Free Lunch and Furrowed Frolicking to the Aesthetic of Caring about Climate Change
TLDR: Author spends a full day at a climate-tech coworking space attending startup pitches on drones, batteries, and waste-to-hydrogen, but finds the scene dominated by performative activism, drinking culture, and founders more interested in extracting money than solving climate problems.
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.
Entertaining Human Degradation at an Otherwise Wholesome Kids Festival
TLDR: The author attends a free kids festival with great activities but is disturbed by one band's performance, which she noticed contained clusters of sexualized symbolism, inappropriate language, and grooming-adjacent aesthetics that have no place in children's entertainment.
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.
Virtually Visiting the White House Again: One Final Week to Perfect my Proposal
TLDR: The author attends a virtual White House office-hours session for an AI education competition, gathering advice on proposal formatting, rubric strategy, and submission logistics as she finalizes her AI-for-youth education proposal before the deadline.
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.
Can’t Stop Being Obsessed with GameStop: 2025 Awards Show Reaction Blog
TLDR: The author live-blogs her enthusiastic reaction to GameStop's 2025 Awards Show on Twitter, celebrating the gaming community's humor and culture while balancing dinner and parenting duties before rushing out to pick up her daughter.
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.
Back to Artificial Events (Intelligently)
TLDR: Kelly attends two AI events in one evening -- a women-in-tech founder panel on fundraising and product-market fit, followed by a career-focused talk on upskilling with AI, domain expertise, and managing your own career trajectory in the age of automation.
Tagalong for Tagalog and a Sculpture of Culture
TLDR: The author drops into a Filipino cultural holiday celebration featuring dancing, food, crafts, and community, enjoying the authentic festive atmosphere after skipping a 400-person friendsgiving.
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