James H Johnson

Servant of Jesus, husband, father, make-believe stoic, pretend crossfitter, and legitimate boring corporate finance dude.

[Heavy Pulp @heavypulp]

Sweet Land - an ode to America's 250th year. 🇺🇸

[Clifford Asness @CliffordAsness]

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[Criminal Penguin @Crime_Penguin]

I loved the Mad Men finale when I saw it in 2015. I remember asking this grizzled boomer what he thought of it, and he said he was angry that Don wasn’t ‘arrested and executed for desertion’. And I scoffed at that at the time (haha, silly old guy) but he was kind of right. Don never facing any real consequences for years of dysfunctional and self-destructive behavior is the central flaw of the show. It’s still objectively good TV, but you have to see through that.

But I think a lot of poorly socialized Gen Z males (a lot of Gen Z was primarily socialized through media and that’s part of why some of them are so detached from reality) really internalized that message, the message that dysfunctional behavior was in fact glamorous like Don and you can get away with it indefinitely. But you really can’t.

And the popular media archetype of highly competent professional with highly dysfunctional personal life doesn’t really exist in real life. There are edge cases, sure. But a lot of young people assume it’s true (even common) because they see it on TV so often. Most highly competent people are really pretty boring.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Nothing will shape your worldview as much as simply reading how humans from the past thought.

You realize very quickly that our time is a radical anomaly in human history.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

“Whatever you think of Massie’s libertarian-leaning conservative politics, his defeat would send a chill through Congress. He’s one of a few Republican members who has taken his oath of office seriously”
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[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[James H Johnson @James_H_J]

@leasher2k hi and I love you!

[Jason DeBolt ⚡️ @jasondebolt]

You have two lives, and the second life begins when you realize you only have one.

You have a thousand problems in life, until you have a health problem. And then you only have one problem.

One life, one problem. Stay physically healthy. Everything else is just sugar coating.

[Governor Andy Beshear @GovAndyBeshear]

Folks, we need to do a better job of eating healthy foods, turning off the screens, and spending more time with loved ones. Team Kentucky is helping us make good habits through Dr. Stack's Our Healthy Kentucky Home. Together, we can make simple changes for a healthier life.

[James H Johnson @James_H_J]

@maximumpain333 @grok are any of these claims substantiated by independent research?

[James H Johnson @James_H_J]

@greg16676935420 But is he really based in Kentucky?!

[₿Anon⚡️ @BTC_Franklin21]

@elonmusk

[James H Johnson @James_H_J]

@RepThomasMassie 😡 No need to worry…it’s money wasted. Your area loves you.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The father plants trees he will never climb and the son climbs trees he did not plant, and somewhere in this sacred exchange lies the mystery of time itself - how a man becomes eternal not by living forever but by teaching another man to die well, and when the son finally understands that his father's silence was not absence but presence compressed into granite, that his father's hands were not empty but full of invisible seeds, then he becomes the father, then he plants the trees, then he learns the terrible beautiful weight of loving someone into tomorrow

[James H Johnson @James_H_J]

@elonmusk @RepThomasMassie’s farm.

[James H Johnson @James_H_J]

@techAU @elonmusk Pick a purple state.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

“The real tax on the American people is what government spends.”

— Milton Friedman

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

What Are The Deeply Buried Sins In Your Heart You Need Jesus To Drop A Bunker Buster On? - Op-Ed By Chet Skatington https://t.co/chqCHhPkq4

[Jack Altman @jaltma]

Not sure I've ever learned more in 100 minutes than I did talking to @pmarca on Uncapped.

We covered the future of venture capital, what he sees coming with AI, the current state of politics and the media, and then a bunch of random questions I just really wanted to ask him.

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

Do you know what you will be judged for? https://t.co/agRv3CWu5z