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I just spent an hour writing about my experience with the Panas Test and lost it all. I will wait a while and try to explain my story later today. Darn, I must not have pushed "Save" at the right time? I think I need to push "save regularly as I'm writing?

 

On the other hand, this is probably a good example of how I deal with life. I'm feeling drained and distraught and upset. I want to give myself a break. So, I go to a habit that I have aquired to assuage my loneliness since my husband passed seven years ago. That is to listen to YouTube Podcasts. I have a bunch of favorites, but I have not subscribed because I scroll through and settle on one that is interesting to me at the time. 

 

I find that I'm spontaneously directed to one that is interesting and often it's just answering a question I had awakening. My daughter says it's an algorithm and discounts my definition of "it was meant to be". 

 

When I lost all that I had blogged earlier this morning, I gave myself a break and found this interview with Alex Karp "Fight For the West". Alexander Caedmon Karp was born on October 2, 1967, in New York City,[2][3] the son of Robert Karp, a Jewish clinical pediatrician, and Leah Jaynes Karp, an African American artist.[4][5] He was raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School in 1985.[6][7] He has said he struggled with dyslexia from an early age. He is an American billionaire businessman, and the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. In 2025 his net worth has at times exceeded US$10 billion, ranking him among the top 300 on the daily Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires Index. I will come back to this posting after I listen to some more of his story.

 

I'm resonating with the fact that he has embarked on studying something that is part of what he decided was his purpose in life with also convincing his Jewish parent that making money was not important and chose to live beneath his means. First, he had the handicap of overcoming dislexia.

 

Alex wrote his book over a year ago, but he is most proud of the fact that it has become so currently relevant. Karp is the co-author, along with Nicholas Zamiska, of The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.

 

I am excited to hear how Alex views DOGE. He labels himself a Progressive Democrat and values the constitution of the USA. I too believe that WOKE has gone too far, but Universities is where we learn divergent thinking and is necessary.

 

I like his support of European Vocational High Schools for education. He spent a lot of time in Germany. I like that he is open to the battle of ideas.