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Just gonna leave this here…

Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.

Has anyone else noticed that when JD Vance says his name it sounds like “Shady Vance” 🤣🤣 I just watched a video and about died laughing.

Most of my followers probably don’t need to read this, but it’s everything I’ve been predicting & saying. I’m in another country for an academic conference and glad to be here, but it’s largely on my own dime despite trying to promote research to improve the pipeline of a whole profession.

When I said the education sector is hurting and about to be more so, including tenured faculty, in my comments yesterday… this will help you understand. Academic freedom (in so many ways) will no longer be a thing in order to comply with mandated behavior.

This needs talked about. Many of my colleagues are/have been Fulbright Scholars. Many are stranded abroad now thanks to grant cuts. 😡

Never saw this coming 🤔 I’m confused

This is old-ish news (since things change on a dime lately), but no one is talking much about it… If you’re unaware as tax pros, you may need to know for your clients and their kids sake that income dependent student loan plans have been suspended and aren’t being processed (along with others). 😣

Heading to Canada to speak to a bunch of non-accountants about how we can use media to rebrand the profession. Should be interesting to see *their* reactions. My past history with non-CPA groups is that they think it’s great & they have no idea the profession operates as it does internally.

I’ve missed my #Tax peeps enough that I considered resurrecting my X account, but ewww

Oh hi hi hi BlueSky! Went to the ACFC home opener game yesterday!

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Well that was a fun class explaining product costing that led to economics that led to government fund accounting and not in good ways 🫠

I’m seeing the “no tax on tips and OT” nonsense go around again and all I can think is: Imagine the payroll nightmare and the reworking of the W-2 to show the different amounts… Or are we just slamming more into box 12 codes?

Pretty wild teaching an auditing class while trying to explain how some random non-elected dude is rooting through the Treasury systems 🫠

Sometimes I miss my tax people from that other place, because I don’t see them as much here, but I do not miss the toxicity.

If they can use the Kennedy name to become this ridiculous, surely I can use my Lowell name & ancestry to do something useful. After all, the foreign affairs advisor to JFK was a Lowell. ~ thoughts on random Thursdays when I should be doing statistical analyses & prepping to teach S corps tonight

It’s why they hate education and call the professors the enemies.

I cannot lie, I did just buy 4 packages of coffee when I was out grocery shopping today. I cannot help you with eggs, however. 😂😂

I’m not sure setting them to private would help 🫠 The call is coming from inside the house…

Solid beach long run today 🌴

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I talked to Gina about always following your goals and dreams… give it a listen!

Recorded an episode of the Rise Resolute podcast today. Discussed the vastness of who I am & what I do, how to live authentically (including finding your people in everything you do!) and forging your own path when it might not make sense to others. I’m excited to share when it’s published!

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I fear there is deep truth here.

Ran in Santa Barbara today instead of the normal Hermosa/Manhattan Beach Saturdays … it was beautiful and needed 🩵 🌴

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Other professors: all of the students are doing their homework with ChatGPT… Me: Dear ChatGPT, please write this student project for me… 😂😂

Absolutely laughing about all of the people on the Bad Place™️ talking about how they live in the OC and thanks to “better leadership” they’re not having fires while LA is burning. Fires do not care about your politics. The last place I lived that was burned down in a wildfire was very 🔴 leaning. 🙄

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This is why I continue to persist on a more positive portrayal of accountants in media. To see is to believe. 💯 #TaxSky #TaxBS

If you had heard from influencers that sugar substitutes raise your blood sugar or “trick your body” into thinking you’re ingesting sugar… it’s definitely not that way for everyone or every type of sugar substitute. Drinking a diet soda and my glucose is dropping… #fitness

I have been trying to stay quiet about my next speaking engagement until the organization announces it, but gracious, it’s been almost a month. It’s hard not to be excited and post about it. 🤭 Especially just to keep my dopamine up on the research as a whole!

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Bench being sold to the quickest bidder is giving furniture store “going out of business sale” vibes 😣

Ironically, I said I had AI exhaustion and then got an email that a company is in need of a part-time accountant to extract data from their payroll system to feed into NetSuite properly. This seems like a perfect job to be completed by an automation. They’re a cybersecurity company… 🙂

I think I have AI fatigue. 🫠

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals 🎄🎁

Is it wrong to start a CV/Resume with “award winning educator…” Asking for a friend 🤷🏼‍♀️

How many tabs of Google Scholar open are too many? Asking for a friend…

Today in a nutshell: Conspicuous consumption theory ➡️ leads me to Red Queen theory ➡️ which brings me back around to consumer behavior ➡️ and how brands feed our need to fulfill conspicuous consumption with all of their signaling of trademark designs 🙃 Are you shopping today?

Having lived with a T1 diabetic growing up and watching them pass away with complications at 59, then having my own issues with blood sugars being too low, I decided to try a continuous glucose monitor… The top thing I’ve found that makes it skyrocket? Coffee creamer. Even the slightest amount.

Showed last night’s biz tax class Logan’s 2023 year in review video & they were inspired. One came up to me after class and asked if I would be a reference for him to get a tax job so he could start working toward his own firm ownership. This is how we change the story. #TaxBS #accounting

Decided to end my financial statement analysis class with a lesson how to use AI to analyze statements, when to believe it, when to not believe it, when it will make up data, etc. We were studying the chocolate wars 🍫 companies, so I quickly wrote it a basic prompt for Hershey’s…

Update: trust the process My students have come through on my bet on them. I’m proud of the different way I teach and that students trust me and keep choosing my classes on purpose, not by default.

For reference, I have online classes where this works all the time. This is an in-person class and I didn’t expect any different result, but I may be proven wrong.

I ran an experiment in my biz tax class this term and gave them all the entire term to do their quizzes. Tuesday night they’re all due and I’m a little worried for a few students 👀

Let’s do another list of people who work “on” making the profession better versus just working “in the profession” every day. These are people whose ideas and processes have started to change HOW accountants & tax pros do their work and define their roles. (No particular order again)… 1/x