C. Sears

Husband, Father, Outdoorsman, Hardheaded podcast host: What’s on your mind, #Top3, good word

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

For all of you fishing “influencers” out there saying “EWG” to shorten “extra wide gap”, please realize it is longer to say EWG. It only saves ink, not syllables.

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

Ha!

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Real

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

How does courage look in decision making?

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

A good description of our higher education system.

Learn a trade.

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

You are the master of your domain, not your Apple Watch.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is.

A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog.

164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything.

Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology.

The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing.

The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it.

Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout.

The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need.

The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.

[Lily Tang Williams @Lily4Liberty]

This is not constitutional. It should be overturned. Americans should know how your elected representatives voted on this.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@pubity Some of us tried to stop the mandate:

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

@AdamKoffler $700k for a starter home??? You need to move to a lower cost of living area. Sheesh.

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

Wow!

[Jake Gilman @jakeglmn]

Harvard tracked 724 men for 80 years to figure out what makes you live longer.

They measured everything from income to IQ, and even genetics.

The #1 predictor of an early death? Had nothing to do with any of it...

Here's what they found (thread):

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

This Easter, I invite you to look at Jesus, consider what he said and did, and ask for yourself what I believe is the most important question you will ever answer: Did he really leave behind an empty tomb? And if he did, what does that mean for you?

This video was made possible and in collaboration with my friends at @ChildlikeMedia.

[Hank Jones @Hankcjag]

Mesocotyls stretched and growing points are near soil surface. Prop roots are trying to anchor in dry soil and now we have some rootless corn syndrome

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

He was at the point of attack, @ccbroughton

[The Blood Pressure Champion 🇺🇸🇰🇪 @zablonorina1]

Security camera footage from a safari lodge:

Last guest of the night. Alone. Beer in hand. Scrolling his phone.

Behind him, a male lion walks in.

After-dark rules in the bush aren’t suggestions they’re survival protocols.
Most guests never ask why. This is why.

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

@kyleblasdel Preach!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Cyberattack against American breathalyzer test company locks out drivers across 45 states.

[Coach Swit @CoachSwit]

Travel baseball has turned into:

Pay tons of money to play.
Pay to travel.
Pay to stay.
Pay to watch your own kid.

And somehow… this became normal. Will it ever change or just get worse?

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

If true, this should be concerning for any parent of a school-aged child.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job.

In 2022, that dropped to 12%.

We've got a serious problem brewing in education...

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

[Chad E. Colby @TheChadColby]

These photos come from inside the Cottonwood Fire burn area in Nebraska.

A trail camera owned by Jordan Adams went straight through the wildfire and was left completely melted. When he recovered it, he carefully opened the camera and found the SD card inside was still intact.

The photos were saved.

They’re date- and time-stamped, giving a rare look at how quickly the fire moved through the landscape.

Photos courtesy of Jordan Adams.

[C. Sears @ChetASears]

This is funny.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Tim Burchett drops HILARIOUS RESPONSE to Lindsey Graham calling on President Trump to bomb Lebanon

"Lindsey Graham hasn't seen a FIST FIGHT he hasn't wanted to turn into a BOMBING raid! So, I take it with a grain of salt, dude!"

Tim's a national treasure 😅