• The USIP is now headed by a 28-year-old, per a federal court filing.
  • DOGE named Nate Cavanaugh, a tech entrepreneur and college dropout, as the USIP’s acting president.
  • Lawyers for the USIP said nearly all of the institute’s staff in the US have been fired.

https://archive.ph/fkjbG

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What’s wrong with 28? Attack them for who they are, but we need younger people too.

“DOGE named Nate Cavanaugh, a tech entrepreneur and college dropout, as the USIP’s acting president.”

That’s the alarming part.

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The person in charge of USIP should be a person not only with a relevant advanced degree, but also at least couple decades of experience in international diplomacy. A 28 year-old hasn’t been on earth long enough to even sort-of have the expertise required, even if we could charitably assume they chose a once in a generation child genius who got 2 PhDs by 16.

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So, is this kid taking the full funding of usip and pocketing it or is his salary like $130k? Also, are we pretending the agency still exists, or what?

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It’s not a goverment agency, it’s a non-profit org.

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That’s only if you are assuming they are expected to do anything other than be a placeholder whole it gets shut down. They are a loyal signature authority, full stop.

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Mediation is about being the dumbest person in the room. You bring the parties together and let them come to an agreement. You are meerly a facilitator.

I did a mediation workshop a few years ago and that is verbatim what the attourney that runs the organization said. Your job is to act as a neutral third party and ask questions like why are we here? What would you like to accomplish? Can you tell me more about that? And etc. Usually disputes come down to one or both parties not knowing what the other knows. Even if you can see what the iasue is, it is not your job to tell them, but to come to conclusions on their own because you don’t know the full scope of the issues.

Mediation is different than arbitration in that mediators don’t make a determination.

https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/robbins-the-dumbest-person-in-the-room/

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Man, it sounds like you should be leading USIP instead.

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dumbest person in the room

meerly

Without meer, I guess.

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Lol, no.

That sounds like a terrible way to facilitate anything other than making the conflict worse.

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Bill Gates is a tech entrepreneur and college drop out. His age, at least gives him experience and (hopefully) wisdom.

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He never made anything, just repackaged others work and his mommy worked at IBM. His 20 year old self would be working at DODGE right now.

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Are you saying that’s a good thing? Maybe 20-year-olds shouldn’t be running government agencies.

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I don’t believe his mother worked at IBM but she was on a lot of corporate boards and was on the board of United Way where John Opel the then CEO of IBM was also serving as a board member.

Now it’s a distinction without a difference as it still shows how not self made he was, but I’m a pedant.

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He wrote Altair Basic, which is more than just repackaging. I can only assume he tended towards more business related tasks after that though.

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They’re trying to gift themselves the USIP building aswell

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/

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28? That could very well be the most senior member of DOGE. Everyone older than that knows better.

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This reminds me of an ad i saw for a 25 year old life coach.

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