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Coach Pāṇini ®<p>What if—wait, hear me out—it was never a principled objection in the first place? </p><p>But then a Black guy became president and a bunch of creepy weirdos got butt-hurt about it; now things are too expensive to buy Christmas presents, math is <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/woke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woke</span></a>, and child sex predators are tolerated in the halls of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a>. </p><p>Modern <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> “conservatism” died with the idea that Constitutional amendments preserve the rights of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WeThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeThePeople</span></a> (looking at you 27th Amendment).</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@DopeGhoti" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DopeGhoti</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Rycaut" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Rycaut</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@carnage4life" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>carnage4life</span></a></span> </p><p>“Betrayal” is a construct of “loyalty”</p><p>I’m not sure even the most Friedman-esque acolyte believes that the corporate maximizing profits has any sense of loyalty to workers, and if they do, that workers have any sense of loyalty to the enterprise.</p><p>Not having nor adhering to any <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> or believing “loyalty” exists in the labor market wouldn’t surprise me, though.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fromjason" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fromjason</span></a></span> </p><p>It’s product management divorced from any actual <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CoreValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoreValues</span></a> beyond the text in the OKRs or the JIRA ticket.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>New <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> era:</p><p>- Data has fundamentally different properties than physical assets</p><p>- Digital systems operate without the natural constraints of physical ones</p><p>- Deception scales differently in digital versus physical realms</p><p>- Traditional risk frameworks assume human actors with human limitations </p><p><a href="https://lnkd.in/dYzvvW-9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lnkd.in/dYzvvW-9</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>The blueprint out of misery was given to us, the first-principles laid out, it was always up to each generation to do the work.</p><p>The way you know a core value is core is that by adhering to it, it costs you something.</p><p>There is pain, friction, and noise in maintaining first-principles.</p><p>We do these things because they are hard.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CoreValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoreValues</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DoTheWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DoTheWork</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>I’m proud to be an <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a>, who values the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republicanism</span></a>, specifically because there are creepy weirdos out there who find the virtuous ideals of a Republic deeply shameful and threatening.</p><p>I am so here for it.</p><p>🇺🇸</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>If you’re not flying an <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> flag at protests, you’re not virtue signaling nor yelling about the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> of due process and constitutional rights.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>The objectives of Creepy Weirdos is to disincentivize the fabric of the Union in the first place. </p><p>I’m hopeful that We the People™ of the Republic keep applauding for first-principles of the Constitution. </p><p>It’s that or wear gas masks to street actions.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StayWoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StayWoke</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republicanism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/StreetAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetAction</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>There are none or they are very, very stupid.</p><p>That is all.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RealEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RealEstate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@TCatInReality" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TCatInReality</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@Extra_Special_Carbon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Extra_Special_Carbon</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://f.kawa-kun.com/profile/tk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@flexghost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>flexghost</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samiamsam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>samiamsam</span></a></span> </p><p>I would expect this because <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TheCrueltyIsThePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheCrueltyIsThePoint</span></a> aligns with <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> of a nihilistic death cult.</p><p>It’s not even cognitively dissonant, it’s just wickedly optimized.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>“He gets his <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> wrong, so we have to return to ours. </p><p>“Most important, human equality precedes human differences. </p><p>“We can identify differences among us only because we are all human, and in that regard equal. </p><p>“As humans we share a capacity for moral judgment and an innate striving to choose actions that make tomorrow better. </p><p>“This is how our drive and capacity for freedom show themselves.”<br><a href="https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/114464816039134376" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/1144</span><span class="invisible">64816039134376</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>General Robert Neyland’s “Seven Maxims” are <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> recited by <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/TennesseeVols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TennesseeVols</span></a> football teams before every game. </p><p>They emphasize <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/discipline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discipline</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resilience</span></a>, and seizing <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/opportunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opportunities</span></a>:</p><p>½</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>The Putin administration’s approach to the Second Chechen War demonstrated a willingness to subordinate legal <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> concerns. </p><p>This approach “substantially retarded the growth of a <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuleOfLaw</span></a> state” as “a certain callousness toward law spread north from the Caucasus”.</p><p>The Rules of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GoldenHorde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoldenHorde</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/vladimir-putin-and-the-rule-law-russia" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wilsoncenter.org/publication/v</span><span class="invisible">ladimir-putin-and-the-rule-law-russia</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>This is the part where having and adhering to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> matters.</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>I posted to <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LinkedIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinkedIn</span></a>, the hashtags of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CoreValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoreValues</span></a>, and the video of Chris Murphy speaking about a U.S. permanent resident being “disappeared”, with text saying:</p><p>“The U.S. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> protects the right to free speech. </p><p>“It is enshrined in the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> of the Bill of Rights.</p><p>“It even protects speech you don’t like.</p><p>“Especially speech you don’t like.”</p><p>Based on the post analytics after 9 hours, it appears shadow-banned.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/panini%E2%80%99s-daily-bread_firstprinciples-corevalues-activity-7305950826781384707-a4Et?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios&amp;rcm=ACoAAACmWtEBurVmJxUdnv5QtGB6hgFTyYJNROs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/posts/panini%E2%8</span><span class="invisible">0%99s-daily-bread_firstprinciples-corevalues-activity-7305950826781384707-a4Et?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_ios&amp;rcm=ACoAAACmWtEBurVmJxUdnv5QtGB6hgFTyYJNROs</span></a></p><p>C’mon fam</p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.io/@tarheel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tarheel</span></a></span> </p><p>This is an oblique way of saying “we can’t be anti-fascist”, without actually articulating the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CoreValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoreValues</span></a> they do stand for, such as <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republicanism</span></a>.</p><p>Weak sauce.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WordsMeanThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordsMeanThings</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a>, what is it good for?</p><p><a href="http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/09/education-what-is-it-good-for/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/09/e</span><span class="invisible">ducation-what-is-it-good-for/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MaryAustinBooks</span></a></span> </p><p>If the Creepy Weirdos are going to invoke original <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> patriotism, let’s shove Thomas Paine’s narrative down their throats and let them choke on it: <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/02/10/it-doesnt-paine-me-to-say/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2025/02/10/i</span><span class="invisible">t-doesnt-paine-me-to-say/</span></a></p><p>The entire ethos of our nation is oriented around <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/republicanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>republicanism</span></a> which are skeptical of God-Kings, so their construct of corporate monarchy can die a quick death: <a href="https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/s</span><span class="invisible">keptical-of-god-kings/</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whknott" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>whknott</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ErickaSimone</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://podvibes.co/@evoterra" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>evoterra</span></a></span> </p><p>The founding <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/FirstPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPrinciples</span></a> are noble and rooted in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/virtue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virtue</span></a>, which was the only thing sons of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a> valued in the late 1700’s.</p><p>Reputation is a function of promise and delivery.</p><p>The delivery has fell short since inception.</p><p>But the promise?</p><p>Huge upside.</p>