Corporate Affairs at Williams (WMB). Husband of one. Father of two. Survivor of cancer. Runner of trails. Liver of the strenuous life. #YNWA
Tulsa, USA
Joined June 2008
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption. #NoDeathPenalty
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Hac intellegentiae artificialis aetate, urgens fit humanam artem ab iis distinguere, quae machinis efficiuntur. Ars enim et ea, quae machina ex innumeris alienis imaginibus statisticae ope computationis generare potest, ontologice, prius etiam quam aesthetice, inter se differunt. Algorithmis humani deest favilla. Quapropter Ecclesia cum artificibus et humani cultus institutis foedus renovare cupit: foedus scilicet ad humanum custodiendum.
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Ordinary Abundance. This is the greatest thing I've read in weeks. No kidding. This should win a Pulitzer in a category not yet invented. ordinaryabundance.com/
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𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬: The University of Tulsa announced Tuesday that annual tuition and fees are moving from $54,000 to $25,000, making it the most affordable private research university in America’s heartland.
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I’ve spent the first few months of my tenure in the Senate listening to stakeholders, talking with my colleagues, and engaging with everyone I come into contact with on the urgent need to pass permitting reform.
Today, I’m putting all those conversations and ideas on paper with the American Energy and Mineral Infrastructure Act.
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The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor can there be true humanism without a critical sense, without the courage to ask questions: "Where are we going? For whom and for what are we working? How are we making the world a better place?"
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My burnout taught me a valuable lesson about self-identity: You are a person doing a job, not a job pretending to be a person.
For a long time, I didn’t know the difference. Like many professionals, I let my role quietly become my identity. Work wasn’t just something I did; it was who I was, and when it started to unravel, so did I. That’s what made the burnout so disorienting.
When your identity is fused with your output, any threat to your job feels like a threat to your worth—psychologists refer to this as “role fusion.”
Long before modern psychology, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “You are a soul carrying a body, not a body carrying a soul.” That line returned to me when I needed it.
Here are three things to remember:
1. Your job is what you do.
2. Your soul is who you are.
3. And those two things must remain separate, if you want to stay whole.
I still care deeply about my work, but I no longer need it to tell me who I am. And ironically, that’s made the work better, not worse.
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Brains are very susceptible. Steer yours properly. View the sunrise, thank God for another day living and then go get meaningful things done. Trolls and drama are there to test your focus. Happy Friday!
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🚨💣 BREAKING: Alexander Isak to Liverpool, here we go! Deal agreed now for £130m transfer fee. Record move for Premier League.
Isak, on his way today for medical tests as new Liverpool player after long term deal agreed months ago.
It was always ONLY Liverpool for Isak.
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I’m not sure I’ve seen two better free kicks from the same player in the same game. ⚡️ #Arsenal
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You can, simultaneously:
- Dollar cost average, remain long-term optimistic.
- Not panic.
- Enjoy the outdoors, kids, good food, etc.
- Realize how unbelievably destructive and unnecessary this is.
