If you want to know what the Trump administration has been about, then read this list of ‘midnight regulations’ that they’re trying to implement in their final days in office. I’ll post a few of them below.

The Trump administration is expected to move forward plans to make families of noncitizen immigrants ineligible for subsidized housing.
The Trump administration is expected to move forward plans to increase the speed at which chickens may be slaughtered by putting workers at higher risk of amputations.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to allow 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds to operate long haul trucks even though those age groups are generally much more likely to have accidents.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans allow federally subsidized homeless shelters to exclude transgender people.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to loosen restrictions on over-fishing, making it harder to declare locations critical (and therefore protected habitats) and making it easier to develop near waterways and wetlands.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans allow companies that discriminate against people on religious grounds to compete for federal grants.
In the middle of a pandemic and economic crisis that’s affecting millions of Americans, the Trump administration is moving forward with plans to narrow eligibility for food stamps.
The Trump administration (absurdly, in a way that will have zero effect) is moving forward with plans to loosen efficiency standards for clothes washers, dryers and shower heads. Because Trump doesn’t like them.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to stop Washington State’s requiring that truck drivers take sufficient meal and rest breaks, putting truck driver’s lives at risk as well as anyone else who uses the roads.
The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to lower wages for immigrant farm workers on temporary visas while making it possible to refuse entry to higher-skilled workers unless they have higher salaries.
And to end with, the Trump administration has restarted federal executions, and finalized plans to allow federal death row inmates to be executed by firing squads and electrocution. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?

A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:


2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to

- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal

3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:

Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.

Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.

4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?

To get clarity.

You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.

It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.

5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”

Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.