CEO, Chief Storycatcher & Donut Guy, Team Powdered Donut™ | Board Chair, Side-Out Foundation | TEDx Speaker (Austin, Dublin, Malaysia and Rome)

Austin, TX
Joined June 2008
Unexpected chance to tell the story of Team Powdered Donut™️ at #sxsw2026 and #foh2026 The longevity of love transcends life itself!! 🍩🩷
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Steve Jobs would have loved this demo!!! And @elonmusk's comment at the end, "well, it worked." 🔥🤣
Turns out the future does have flying cars
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Changed mine too @tim_cook both professionally and personally. From my 1st job in 1987 in the Field Sales Associate program created by Bill Campbell after graduating @NorthwesternU to meeting my late wife, Maureen, in the Chicago sales office in 1989, Steve's spirit does indeed live on in all of us.
There are people who leave a mark on the world, and then there are people who change it entirely. Steve changed the world and so many lives in the process. He certainly changed my life forever. His spirit lives on in everything he created and everyone he inspired.
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Neither... it isn't about the machines. It is about us. Just like bicycles, cars and planes simply changed the way we humans travel, the same is true of technology. Intelligence belongs to humanity. The rest is still code.
🤔What are YOU calling it?
66%Artificial Intelligence
34%Super Intelligence
187 votes • Final results
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One other benefit of #hybridpublishing is awesome CEOs like Tanya Hall of @GreenleafBookGr! Thankful to have had Tanya as a guest on the @DonutLoveStory podcast at the start of Season 3. 🍩🩷 Give a listen here (and subscribe) teampowdereddonut.org/podcas…
In case you didn’t know, #hybridpublishing has lots of benefits when compared to traditional publishing, like higher royalties, faster publishing timelines, and retaining full author ownership. 📖🖌️
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Great reporting @KXAN_News ... sounds like @DoorDash hiring practices either don't actually match their website language, doesn't work or there is fraud.
According to DoorDash’s website, prospective Dashers undergo identity verification and a background check.
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Gary L. Thompson retweeted
Did you expect ‘Sunflowers’ to look this bright? 🌻 Van Gogh painted ‘Sunflowers’ using three types of chrome yellow. Over the past 130 years, these pigments have gradually darkened – especially in the flowers and the lower background. By recreating the pigments Vincent used, scientists tried to reconstruct how the colours originally looked. The result? A bouquet that glows with bright, vivid yellow hues. 🖼️ ‘Sunflowers’, 1888 © Van Gogh Museum #vangogh #sunflowers #artfacts #vangoghmuseum #vincentvangogh
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Choose wisely America… the woman on the right desecrated a memorial to the men on the left. Men who saw horrors far worse than paint, fighting for the very Western civilization under attack then and sadly still under attack today with a new kind of stupidity…. 😢😢
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Not surprised with a response like this from @SenThomTillis who cares more about his little personal spat with @POTUS then the people of the United States of America, much less the people of his own state North Carolina, who he abandoned during the floods from the hurricane.
Despite comments as late as yesterday that the fund is dead, President Trump clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against. It’s unfortunate that Todd Blanche, who I consider qualified for the job, will not be confirmed because of this reversal. Hopefully, we can resolve this by Tuesday.
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And @stephenasmith Don’t forget @DjokerNole. Not sure the dollar value but definitely a slam or two or three he didn’t win as a result of that insane time in world history.
Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab. "Hindsight-wise, it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE." "I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving." “Kyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates." “In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I'm not doing that.’ “It's just a time for reflection — to look at things differently.” Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated. That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.
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Thanks @tedcruz
🚨 LFG! Add another one to the list! @TedCruz says he will stay and give up August recess to pass the SAVE America Act! Kudos to Ted, from all of us in Texas! Thank you!
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Current views of @spacex livestream same as @cnn in prime time... how we consume media has changed.
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In my humble opinion, @mbafraaude the reason @JMilei didn’t attend the final match was because he didn’t want to be associated with what he knew was going to unfold on the pitch… attitude of their team seems to mirror the attitude of the previous political system.
Mira que Brasil y México tendrán muchísimas cosas malas, pero los brasileños y los mexicanos siempre tuvieron razón con los argentinos.
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I was really getting into @TheGreatCourses series on the Middle Ages on @PrimeVideo until Episode 3 where Joyce Salisbury spoke with almost reverence for Islam. However, for the first time, it became clear why my Judeo-Christian beliefs are so easy... 1/2
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... instead of worshipping a black meteor in a box & the "visions" of a dude in a cave, I have thousands of years of verifiable history. And my guy in a cave/tomb, Jesus, walked out alive. My point? Be discerning. You never know when you're being fed bias, not fact. 2/2
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Thank you for joining @DonutLoveStory @JenniferSertl!! You are a deep thinker, an astute strategist and futurist, as well as a beautiful soul. You have a unique lens and view of connection and coherence. Honestly, I can’t wait to listen to it again myself!! 🍩🩷
Thank you @DonutLoveStory @garyleethompson for having me as a guest on your program. An Exploration of Belonging in an Age of Hybrid Ingelligence teampowdereddonut.org/podcas…
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This @chiproytx ... the only sunset that matters right now is the great American experiment, making sure that the sun doesn't set on our 250 year beacon of hope. Resetting clocks is a complete DISTRACTION from truly important issues!!!
I agree with Tom. I voted no - if you want one time, it should be standard. But color me crazy, I’d like to FOCUS… codify Trump border policies, fix “birthright citizenship,” enact SAVE, ban congressional stock trading, stop corporate & govt surveillance… etc…
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"A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy." Amen @FreddyLA7 ... amen!!
Hello again. We’re currently in Clemson, South Carolina. I’ve decided to come back here to document the final part of our road trip. The main reason I deactivated my account two weeks ago was that things became increasingly toxic. For some people, it’s unfortunately unfathomable that a good story can exist without some kind of hidden agenda behind it. There was even a Reddit group going through my entire account trying to find anything they could use to reveal my identity. I know this was only a small percentage of people, but after a while it became exhausting. During the last two weeks, I received so many kind messages on Instagram, and they really made me realize how many people genuinely enjoyed following the trip. Some people even told me that their grandparents regularly ask them, “What are the Germans up to today?” I think that’s really cool. I decided to continue because I realized that the overwhelming majority of people loved following along. A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy. I also want to clear something up, as people who follow me on Instagram already know. I’ve been to the United States before. This is not my first visit, and I’ve never claimed that it was. The last time I was here was in January 2022, when I visited New York and Philadelphia. A lot of people shared my Raising Cane’s post from November 2025 to make it look like I was secretly American. That post wasn’t from the United States, it was from my trip to Saudi Arabia. This is my first time back in the U.S. in more than four years, and apart from Boston, I’d never visited any of the places we’ve been to on this trip before. That’s probably why many people assumed it was our first time in America, because for all of these places, it actually was. And let me tell you, Ohio and Alabama are very different from New York City or Los Angeles. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks for reading.
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Catch the full episode tomorrow with @JenniferSertl ... subscribe and catch past episodes here: teampowdereddonut.org/podcas… 🍩🩷
What started with the 3 Rs back in 2008 when @Agility3R launched, now includes the 3 As, too. Powerful stuff from a deep thinker and beautiful soul. Listen to the full episode with @JenniferSertl on Tues, 7/14. For now, give this powerful 52 second clip a listen!! 🍩🩷
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