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Five suicide attempts couldn’t kill her. An HIV diagnosis was supposed to finish the job. Instead, she walked into a body modification studio and started cutting away everything that made her human. Both ears. 32 teeth. Her nose. She split her tongue, implanted 18 horns into her skull, and covered every inch of skin in scales. Today she goes by “it” - and says she’s never been happier. Her full name is Eva Tiamat Baphhomet Medusa. The world calls her the Dragon Lady. She calls herself “the world’s most modified transsexual.” Before any of this, she was Richard Hernandez - a vice president at a bank in Texas. She grew up in Bruni, a town of 300 people near the Mexican border. As a freshman in high school, she walked up and down the streets screaming “I’m gay” at the top of her lungs in one of the most machismo regions in the country. “Closets are for clothes and tennis shoes,” she says. At 18, she left for Houston. Fresh from a town with no skyscrapers, she didn’t know you couldn’t trust just anyone. Two men raped her. She doesn’t hate them. “I’m not them,” she says. She became a banker. Built a career. Then came the HIV diagnosis, which later progressed to AIDS. She left the bank to take care of her health and nearly died. That’s when something shifted. “I decided I’m not going to die looking like a human,” she told Soft White Underbelly. “Being human has been such a negative part of life.” She spent over $60,000 on body modifications. Not with doctors - with body modification artists. She was the fifth person in the world to get horns implanted into her cranium. She was the first person ever to have both ears surgically removed for cosmetic reasons. She had her testicles removed and plans a full penectomy. “I will be a genderless dragon,” she says. “That’s what dragons are.” Her son hasn’t spoken to her since the transformation. She did some of the modifications specifically so he could see what his father was becoming. “His weird-looking, strange, used to be a man, is now a woman, is now a reptilian, dad,” she says. She was abandoned in the woods as a child by her birth parents. She denounced them in favor of a snake. She tried to take her own life five times before the transformation gave her a reason to stay. “My transformation is by and large what saved my life after five failed suicide attempts,” she says. “I am truly happy for the first time in my life.” She prefers the pronoun “it.” Just like a snake. She swallows food whole because she only has six teeth left - representing the mouth of a rattlesnake. Sirens drive her crazy because without ears, everything sounds louder. She makes cotton candy for the neighborhood kids, and her neighbors say her energy is “the most gentle and pleasant” they’ve ever been around. In the video below, you can see Tiamat sitting across from the interviewer with her full-face scale tattoos, horn implants, and no ears, calmly describing how she eats, why she removed her teeth, and the moment she decided to stop being human. Some will say she’s mentally ill and needs help, not a body modification studio. Others will say she found the only thing that kept her alive when nothing else could. If removing every trace of your humanity is what finally made you happy - were you ever really human to begin with?

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“Great design transcends aesthetic appeal; it shapes our lived experiences. It fosters collaboration, conveys dignity, inspires ambition, and creates a sense of belonging to something larger. This philosophy guided my work on the White House Tennis Pavilion, designed in collaboration with the Trust for the National Mall, the Executive Residence, and the National Park Service, and approved by the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission in 2018. Every detail was thoughtfully considered to ensure the new structure harmonized with the historic neoclassical character of the White House Grounds.” First Lady Melania Trump September 9, 2026

“Great design transcends aesthetic appeal; it shapes our lived experiences. It fosters collaboration, conveys dignity, inspires ambition, and creates a sense of belonging to something larger. This philosophy guided my work on the White House Tennis Pavilion, designed in collaboration with the Trust for the National Mall, the Executive Residence, and the National Park Service, and approved by the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission in 2018. Every detail was thoughtfully considered to ensure the new structure harmonized with the historic neoclassical character of the White House Grounds.” First Lady Melania Trump September 9, 2026

Cognitive reward shapes in sports and career Sports are amazing environments to learn. When you play a sport for thousands of hours, you start to see the world through that sport. It is a simple fact—your biological neural network is being conditioned to respond to the behavior incentivized by the rules of the sport. The funny thing is that most people choose their sports for accidental reasons such as parents, geography, or school programs. People rarely think about how the particular sport you play influences how your brain thinks more generally. Going a step further, playing the right sport may even benefit your career. My two favorite sports are tennis and soccer. Tennis is one of the best sports for teaching consistency. In tennis, there are hundreds of points in a match, and each point is worth exactly one unit, regardless of whether your opponent made an unforced error or if you constructed the most beautiful point ending with a winner. Tennis is low-variance optimization—you win by reducing unforced errors, playing percentages, and grinding out small advantages. Tennis is also an individual sport, which teaches you to rely on yourself consistently. Tennis has a similar cognitive reward shape to professions like being a surgeon or a pilot. Surgery and aviation require consistency, self-accountability, and deep focus. And similar to how you can only win one point at a time in tennis no matter how spectacular it was, there is no extra credit for the best appendectomy or the smoothest SFO-JFK flight. Your craft is to provide consistency with very low tolerance for error. On the other hand, the tennis mindset transfers relatively little to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is a high-variance, team game where failure is tolerated and occasional creativity gets rewarded exponentially. Minimizing unforced errors in tennis is a totally different mindset from deciding whether to make a moonshot business move that will likely fail but could potentially net a billion dollars. Obviously I am not saying that tennis players cannot be great entrepreneurs, but I do think it is a totally different cognitive reward shape. Being a forward in soccer has a much closer reward shape for entrepreneurship. What a forward in soccer learns is to create many small chances. It is a fact that most of the game, you are not scoring—even if you look at all the times that Mbappe got on the ball in one of his best games, most of those led to nothing! But all that matters is creating enough chances to score once (or a few times) and win the game. If you break down a 90-minute game for a forward, almost all the time is failure or noise, a few minutes will be leverage, and a few seconds will determine the fate of the game. I have not played soccer for thousands of hours, but I can imagine that being a lifetime forward in soccer would teach you to be comfortable with failure and asymmetric returns. In summary, I am claiming that there can be substantial value when the cognitive reward shape of your sport mirrors that of your career. I’ll admit that I’ve done some cherry-picking for illustration purposes—entrepreneurship also requires consistency and error avoidance; and goalies in soccer have reward shapes that are very different from strikers. But I think the point stands. If sports shape how we perceive risk, effort, and reward, then we should choose them wisely.