“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.”
— Carl Sagan
Everything that has existed, does exist or ever will exists exists in an eternal 'now'.
But you are only mentally/physically able to experience a tiny slice of it 'all at once'.
You think of a 'past' that existed 'thousands of years ago', but it's not really thousands of years stretching 'backwards' across...what?
You're stuck in a mental concept that isn't real.
It's all still right here. Right now. The moments of Creation, the Great Flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the birth, life, death and Resurrection of Jesus, etc.
But you'd have to change your frequency and your body's 'programming' to be able to sense the 'past'. Or the 'future'.
The 'past' isn't gone. You're told the 'future' isn't here yet. It is.
You just can't see it, because you're 'wired' to exist in a 'present moment' that seems to be moving ever forward.
Does your head hurt yet?
I haven't even begun to discuss how his applies to other dimensions.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just released the 35-min edited version of the 90-min master class he gave to 400 of his top executives.
- complacency, arrogance and bureaucracy kill companies.
he explains exactly how to fight all three.
35-min and you'll learn the management playbook of the CEO
who has run America's largest bank for 20 years.
bookmark - the most practical management lecture from Wall Street.
Charlie Munger, the Stoic: "Life will have terrible blows in it. Horrible blows. Unfair blows. It doesn't matter. And some people recover and others don't."
"There, I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something. Your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion."
American Airlines has just officially announced that they are adopting SpaceX's @Starlink! American is the largest airline in the world by passenger volume (225 million), and 2nd in fleet size.
Installations begin Q1 2027. Over 500 of its narrowbody aircraft will get Starlink.
“As a premium global airline, we are continuously seeking out world-class partners like Starlink to deliver what our customers need and want,” said American Airlines Chief Customer Officer Heather Garboden.
American Airlines has just officially announced that they are adopting SpaceX's @Starlink! American is the largest airline in the world by passenger volume (225 million), and 2nd in fleet size.
Installations begin Q1 2027. Over 500 of its narrowbody aircraft will get Starlink.
“As a premium global airline, we are continuously seeking out world-class partners like Starlink to deliver what our customers need and want,” said American Airlines Chief Customer Officer Heather Garboden.
@AmericanAir@Starlink@Delta seriously looks like the biggest loser. No one will fly an airline without Starlink in the future. Crazy to decide in 2026 for Chapter 11 in 2028 by ignoring reality and not offering the best (or even mediocre) internet.
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A fascinating interview with BERTRAND RUSSELL — born 154yrs ago today — from 1952 that has him talking about his Grandfather meeting Napoleon, and about life in Europe in the 1800’s.
In 2024, Peter Thiel debated Jordan Peterson on one of the most misunderstood ideas in human history
No thinker challenges you like Thiel:
- Sacrifice is mostly irrational
- The crowd is almost always wrong
- Isaac had more faith than Abraham ever did
13 insights on sacrifice:
Carl Jung had a strange method for changing your life from the inside out.
Not affirmations.
Not “manifesting.”
Practice these 4 steps for 10 days, and notice what happens to your anxiety: 🪡
1. What you refuse to imagine controls your life from the shadows.
@nicoraytruth Anyone as smart as you should/could do something productive. Running around believing in Harry Potter or DnD or BoM is quite something. You’re clearly intelligent and somehow you believe in magic
Attitude is a choice.
Gratitude is a discipline.
Bitterness is expensive.
Nobody accidentally has a great attitude.
Nobody stumbles into gratitude.
And nobody means to end up bitter, it just quietly moves in when you stop choosing something better.
Guard your peace like it cost you something.
Because it did.
The best briefs are clear, concrete and concise. No wasted words. No noise. No pretense.
Every word earns its place or gets cut.
I spent three years turning this into a book.
Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing— published by the ABA. Link in bio.
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The Scott Adams hypnosis track to solve your biggest problem -- lovingly edited and with added audio enhancements for maximum effectiveness.
(Use headphones to get the full impact of the Theta wave frequencies.)
You can spare 13 minutes to fix your biggest problem, can't you?
(Don't watch this if you're driving, ok?)
I want to thank everyone for reading all of these. It really means a lot.
It was really tough to balance ‘not well known’ vs ‘badass’ for these first 10. There are so many to choose from.
For the final two remaining, they are both incredible stories of soldiers from two different times. I am excited for you all to enjoy them. I hope some here will have met my #1 and share their stories.
I don’t see how I can stop at these 10. I have so many names already. The show must go on.
Follow along and enjoy if you haven’t already! 🇺🇸
Here's what they don't teach kids about American Indians.
If you were taught the kinder, gentler version of Native Americans, you're in for a shock. And we don't honor them by pretending they were eternal victims.
0:00 - Introduction
1:46 - America Before Columbus
5:35 - Clashing War Codes
9:25 - The Comanche
14:43 - Blood on Both Sides
18:10 - Conclusion