Brandon Lee Weaver

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@SahilBloom @david_perell And I chose a good woman, my now-wife. Or, more accurately, she chose me.

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@SahilBloom I purchased Write of Passage, by @david_perell, a virtual writing class, made incredible relationships, and gained the confidence to put my words to paper AND hit publish.

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@Caleb_Nale Lol

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Carl Jung, this line may contain the most wisdom in the fewest words ever

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

Beautiful reflections. Since I'm more concerned with my 12-year-old daughter trusting and respecting me than liking me, it is required reading for her this morning.

[Brent Beshore @BrentBeshore]

What a beautiful reflection by Alex Sasse, @BenSasse's eldest daughter. Full of deep wisdom. Can't imagine a better use of 7 minutes. Link below.

"Every single day of my childhood, my parents asked the same question at dinner. Not 'What did you learn?' but 'Who did you serve?'"

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@moseskagan To me, East of Eden is the most profound story I've ever read.

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@alexolegimas Favorite song from my favorite 90s band. Incredible performance.

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

My kids are more independent and capable because of chores.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Do your kids do chores?

An 85-year ongoing study conducted by Harvard researchers has found a strong connection between doing chores and later professional success and happiness.

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@BeardyBrandon From one dad to another, this feels much lighter and doable. Thanks for sharing.

[Bryan Larsen @BryanLarsenArts]

I see skies of blue...
Clouds of white...
The bright, blessed day...
The darks, sacred night...

...and I think to myself:

What wonderful worlds!

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@DaveEDanna I mowed, aerated, and fertilized my lawn. Tomorrow I will overseed it. Will plant some veggies in the garden and aim for an afternoon nap. But my kids are older, so I can get away with that.

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@BrentBeshore There were too many takeaways, but this I want to tattoo on my arm (in tiny letters so it fits):

“That’s what the Gospel does when it takes root and blossoms. It doesn’t make you stoic. It doesn’t make you numb. It makes you the kind of person who can feel everything, the grief and the anger and the hope and the gratitude, all at once, and not be destroyed by any of it. It makes you free.”

[Brent Beshore @BrentBeshore]

https://t.co/y9vSEqKkBT

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@DylanoA4 “We’ll see…”

[Ben Carlson @awealthofcs]

YTD returns a little more than 2 weeks ago:

S&P 500 -7.1%
Nasdaq 100 -9.0%
R2000 -2.5%

Now:

S&P 500 +4.4%
Nasdaq 100 +5.6%
R2000 +12.2%

It's a strong opinions, loosely held market

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

@OIuwatosin 💯

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

Memories > money

[Ben Carlson @awealthofcs]

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories. In the end that’s all there is.” -Mr. Carson

https://t.co/lXZXt5eHlc

[Todd Jones 🦊 @toddrjones]

Here are some ways in which the world has gotten better.

[Londolozi Game Reserve @londolozi]

When your dinner weighs more than you do…
https://t.co/WLdFd7ekrj

[Brandon Lee Weaver @Brandonleeweave]

“Love risks the relationship for the sake of the person.” Brent shares many truths for men, this stood out the most.

[Brent Beshore @BrentBeshore]

https://t.co/a1uRnTpbAT

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages.

The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse.

I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee.

There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true.

But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.