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Kelly Tutors has attended many events on ___. Topics have included:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TLDR: Kelly transcribes a disturbing overheard bus conversation about human trafficking networks, institutional infiltration, and exploitation, then uses AI tools to analyze and map the systemic funnel of trafficking from recruitment to control.
TLDR: A detailed recap of a weekly leadership course covering active listening levels, the difference between implicit and explicit expectations, how unspoken expectations erode accountability and trust, and practical frameworks for turning assumptions into clear communication.
TLDR: Kelly visits a second nuclear fusion research facility for an early-morning tour, comparing it to her previous NDA-restricted visit and noting the welcoming atmosphere, meme-filled culture, and potential for future collaboration.
TLDR: The author accidentally signs up for the wrong nuclear power plant tour during Fusion Energy Week, tours a fusion research lab under NDA, and stops by a clothing swap beforehand -- calling the experience one of the coolest things she has ever done.
TLDR: Kelly attends a design and tech symposium followed by a youth hackathon downtown, observing beginners learning to pitch and hack while reflecting on AI trends, youth education, and the normalization of technology in creative problem-solving.
TLDR: A short Dress for Success webinar on salary negotiation and defending your hourly rate, with the key advice being to research thoroughly using websites and AI before interviews, and to aim high on wages because showing up happy and motivated is hard to replace.
TLDR: Kelly announces an indefinite social media break to focus energy on building her tutoring business ecosystem -- live classes, podcast, worksheet packets, and website improvements -- while also attending a coworking/pitch event at a VC space.
TLDR: Kelly pitches to venture capitalists at an event for underrepresented founders, sharing her experience navigating the VC world with multiple startup ideas while reflecting on manifestation, origin stories, and the journey of being taken seriously.
TLDR: Kelly attends a fusion and fission energy event covering nuclear energy investments, energy grid infrastructure, and the differences between fusion and fission technologies, connecting it to broader financial and environmental themes.
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.