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Grant time in your stream of consciousness to only those thoughts that align with your goals.
Speak as if your words were inspiration to the receiver and the person who overhears them.
Always act as if your deeds were examples.
They Said It Caused Brain Damage
In the 1970s–80s the whooping cough vaccine was front-page news for causing brain damage. Parents protested. Media investigated. Governments held inquiries.
Now? Injuries are “rare”, “coincidence”, or memory-holed completely.
Same playbook. Different decade.
History didn’t change … the narrative did.
Highest And Lowest Divorce Rates by Job
Actuaries have America’s lowest divorce rate at 14.2%.
At the other extreme, several occupations report divorce rates near 48%, highlighting a striking divide across the U.S. workforce.
Using American Community Survey data compiled by FlowingData, Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld created the following graphic ranking the occupations with the highest and lowest divorce rates among more than 500 jobs.
One of the ranking’s most surprising findings is that healthcare occupations appear on both sides. Physicians, dentists, and physical therapists rank among America’s lowest-divorce occupations, while home health aides, psychiatric aides, and practical nurses rank among the highest.
The contrast suggests that schedules, working conditions, and job structure may play a larger role than industry alone.
The Jobs With the Lowest Divorce Rates
America’s lowest-divorce occupations are remarkably similar. Most require years of advanced education, professional licensing, or specialized technical expertise.
Education appears to be one factor. Census-based research shows divorce rates generally decline as education levels rise.
Individuals with only a high school diploma experienced a divorce rate of 38.8%, compared with 30.1% for those with an associate degree and 25.9% for those holding at least a bachelor’s degree.
Notably, America’s lowest-divorce occupations include not only high earners such as physicians and dentists, but also clergy, one of the few modest-paying professions in the group.
The Jobs With the Highest Divorce Rates
Telemarketers, bus drivers, bartenders, home health aides, psychiatric aides, casino workers, and security personnel all rank among America’s highest-divorce occupations, with rates exceeding 45%.
The occupations at the opposite end of the ranking share a different set of characteristics. Many involve irregular schedules, shift work, public-facing responsibilities, or emotionally demanding working conditions.
Work schedules may be part of the explanation. A landmark study of more than 3,400 married couples found that irregular schedules, such as night shifts, were associated with significantly higher odds of separation or divorce than regular daytime work.
Other research has linked night-shift work to greater marital instability and work-family conflict, particularly for new parents.
The Surprising Healthcare Divide
One of the ranking’s most surprising findings is that healthcare occupations appear on both sides.
Physicians, surgeons, dentists, physical therapists, optometrists, and physician assistants all rank among the lowest-divorce occupations in America.
Yet healthcare support roles tell a very different story. Home health aides, psychiatric aides, practical nurses, ambulance attendants, and other healthcare support workers rank among the highest-divorce occupations.
The divide suggests that job conditions may matter as much as industry. Workers in healthcare can face vastly different schedules, levels of autonomy, educational requirements, and workplace pressures, even while serving similar patient populations. In other words, two people can work in healthcare and face entirely different relationship pressures depending on their role.
What the Rankings Reveal
The rankings suggest that occupation and family life may be more connected than many people realize. While no profession determines whether a marriage succeeds, factors such as work schedules, stress levels, educational attainment, and job autonomy appear to be linked with markedly different divorce outcomes.
The healthcare divide is perhaps the clearest example. People working in the same industry can face entirely different relationship pressures depending on the role they hold.
Cher Scarlett
Apple swore to the U.S. government that it never silences workers. One self-taught coder was holding the document that proved it was a lie. Her name is Cher Scarlett. High school dropout. Single mom. And she just made the most powerful company on earth rewrite its contracts.
Cher is born April 6, 1985. Walla Walla, Washington. Rough start. Dad gone. Stepdad gone. Mom works construction to keep food on the table.
Life breaks early. Cher drops out of high school. Battles bipolar disorder. Hits bottom young. Nearly doesn’t make it.
But she has one thing. A computer. She teaches herself to code in the late 1990s. A teenager building websites alone. No degree. No school. Just figuring it out.
Then she has a kid. Single mom. She needs real money. So she turns that self-taught skill into a career. Software engineer. Climbs all the way up. Lands at Apple. The biggest company on the planet.
Then she sees it.
Women paid less than men. Workers scared to talk about pay. Harassment. Discrimination. Keep your head down. Don’t make noise.
Cher makes noise.
2021. She runs a simple survey. Asks coworkers about their pay. Apple shuts it down.
So she goes bigger. Starts #AppleToo. Like #MeToo, but for Apple workers. Current staff. Former staff. Hundreds of stories pour in. Racism. Sexism. Abuse. The secrets the most secretive company on earth never talks about.
Apple is not happy.
Cher says she gets harassed. Intimidated. Pushed out. September 2021. She files with the labor board. Then she leaves with a settlement.
But the settlement has a catch.
Apple’s lawyers hand her a gag order. They even write her goodbye line for her. They tell her to say: “After 18 months at Apple, I’ve decided it is time to move on and pursue other opportunities.” Words stuffed in her mouth. Sign here.
Then, on October 18, 2021, Apple writes to the SEC. Shareholders had asked a question. Do you use gag clauses to hide harassment and discrimination? Apple answers in writing. To the federal government. Says no. Says it is our policy not to use those clauses.
Cher reads that. And she knows it is a lie. Because she is holding one of those exact clauses in her hand.
Now she has a choice. Stay quiet. Keep the money. Move on. Easy.
Or break the gag order. Lose the money. Prove Apple lied to the government.
She breaks it.
October 25, 2021. She files a whistleblower complaint with the SEC. Hands over her own settlement agreement as proof. Then goes public. Shows the gag order to the Financial Times. She knows the cost. She will likely never see the rest of that settlement money. She says it plain. The money is not worth letting Apple off the hook.
Here is the part nobody wants to think about.
That clause she refused to stay quiet about? Versions of it are everywhere. Millions of workers sign them every year. Severance papers. Exit deals. “Keep quiet and here is your check.” You may have one sitting in a drawer right now. The thing that makes you stay silent about what happened to you was Apple’s official, written-down practice, while they told the government the opposite.
January 2022. Eight state treasurers write the SEC. California. Colorado. Delaware. Illinois. Iowa. Kansas. Rhode Island. Washington. All asking the same thing. Investigate Apple. Find out if they lied to the government and their own investors.
One single mom. 8 states behind her. Against a trillion dollar company.
And things actually change. Apple shareholders vote to review the gag orders. First shareholder proposal passed in over 10 years. The review forces Apple to rewrite its employee contracts. Cher then helps push the Silenced No More Act in Washington state. It makes it illegal to use gag clauses to bury harassment and discrimination. A law that now protects workers who were never supposed to be able to speak.
And Apple? In October 2024, the labor board’s prosecutor charges the company. Says Apple illegally forced her out for speaking up.
That fight is still open right now. Cher is still organizing. Still pushing companies. Still refusing to disappear quietly.
A high school dropout with no degree caught the richest company on earth lying to the government, gave back the money to prove it, and changed the law so they cannot do it to you.
She handed back the check. She kept the receipts.
And she is not done with them yet.
Ex-Google Officer: You Only Have 3 Years Left Before It Hits! – Mo Gawdat
AI Expert Mo Gawdat returns to The Diary Of A CEO to reveal why AGI has already arrived, why 30% of jobs will disappear by 2027, and why the most dangerous thing about AI isn’t the technology – it’s the people in charge of it.
Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X, founder of One Billion Happy, and co-founder of Emma.Love. He is a 4x international bestselling author, and his upcoming book ‘Alive: A Human’s Guide to Living in the World of AI’, will be released in October 2026.
Paul Gelsinger
One handyman with no medical degree forced the U.S. government to shut down gene therapy across the entire country.
His name is Paul Gelsinger. A house builder from Tucson, Arizona. And he did it because of what a world-class university did to his son.
Jesse Gelsinger. Born June 18, 1981. Born with a rare genetic disease — OTC deficiency. His liver couldn’t clear ammonia from his blood.
Most babies with the severe form die within days. Jesse had a milder version. He survived on nearly 50 pills a day and a diet so strict that one wrong meal could kill him.
He grew up anyway. Loved motorcycles. Loved pro wrestling. Funny. Healthy, compared to the others.
At 18 he volunteered for an experimental gene therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania.
The trial couldn’t even help him. It was a Phase 1 safety study, meant to one day save dying babies. Jesse got nothing out of it. He volunteered anyway.
September 13, 1999. Doctors threaded a catheter into his liver and injected corrected genes carried by a modified cold virus.
Within hours: fever. By morning: jaundice. His body was at war with the virus.
Day 2: organs failing. Day 3: a ventilator. They called Paul in Arizona. Come now.
September 17, 1999. Four days after the injection. Jesse died at 18 — the first person ever publicly identified as killed by gene therapy.
The doctors told Paul it was a rare, unforeseeable reaction. Nobody could have predicted it. Go home and grieve.
So Paul started asking questions. And the answers destroyed him.
Monkeys had already died from this therapy in earlier studies. Nobody told Jesse.
Earlier human patients had suffered serious side effects. Nobody told Jesse.
Jesse’s ammonia was too high to qualify under the trial’s own rules. They let him in anyway — a last-minute substitute when another volunteer dropped out.
And the lead scientist, Dr. James Wilson, owned stock in the company developing the treatment. He stood to make millions if it worked. Nobody told Jesse.
The consent form Jesse signed left all of it out.
Paul could have taken a settlement and gone quiet. Instead, in February 2000, a handyman from Tucson walked into the United States Senate and testified against one of the most powerful research universities on earth.
Then it got bigger than Jesse.
Investigators found that 691 volunteers in gene therapy experiments had died or fallen ill in the years before him — and only 39 had been reported properly. Hundreds of cases. Buried.
The whole field had been hiding the bodies.
The FDA shut it down. Every human trial at Penn’s gene therapy institute — frozen. Research across America — halted. “Gene therapy” became a toxic phrase.
The University of Pennsylvania paid the federal government $514,000. Wilson was barred from human research for years.
One father. Against a university, a star scientist, and a billion-dollar field. And the father won.
Here’s the part that touches you.
Every consent form signed in an American clinical trial today exists the way it does because of Jesse. All known risks must be disclosed. Animal deaths must be disclosed. Financial conflicts must be disclosed. Adverse events reported within 15 days.
If you — or your kid, or your parent — ever sign up for a trial, those protections are Jesse’s.
And the field that killed him came back. Stronger, and honest.
2017: the FDA approves Luxturna — gene therapy that cures a form of childhood blindness. 2019: Zolgensma — it saves babies dying of spinal muscular atrophy. CAR-T therapies now put cancer patients into full remission.
Every one of them stands on rules a grieving handyman forced into existence.
Jesse volunteered to help science. The people he trusted hid the truth, and it killed him at 18.
His father made sure the world found out — and built the safety net that protects every patient who comes after.
A man who fixed houses for a living rebuilt the ethics of modern medicine.
Paul is still in Tucson. Still advocating. Still saying his son’s name.