Jason Stanley

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT.

Spend 1 hour with this.

Claude AI FULL COURSE that teaches you how to BUILD and AUTOMATE anything.

The people who watch this tonight will wake up tomorrow with a new skill.

Watch it and Bookmark it now.

[Manisha Mishra @manishamishra24]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

Dr. Arthur Brooks has spent years studying happiness, meaning, and the habits that make life truly fulfilling.

He makes a powerful case that happiness is not a feeling. It’s something deeper. Something built.

In this episode, @arthurbrooks breaks down the science of happiness and explains why a good life is shaped by the three essential “macronutrients” of enjoyment, satisfaction, and meaning. He explains why pleasure alone is not enough, why struggle is necessary for fulfillment, and why many of the things we chase like money, status, comfort, and admiration, can quietly pull us away from what matters most.

We also explore the hidden costs of modern technology, why boredom may actually be essential for reflection and purpose, and why service, beauty, and friendship are core ingredients of a meaningful life. Arthur shares practical ideas throughout, from his “reverse bucket list” to his mood-management protocol, tech hygiene rules, and strategies for avoiding relationship drift in marriage and friendship.

If you want a richer framework for happiness—and practical tools for building more meaning, stronger relationships, and a more fulfilling life—this is an episode you won’t want to miss.

Links to the episode on all platforms in the comments below.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:04 - The happiness macronutrients
3:57 - Pleasure vs. enjoyment
8:08 - No struggle, no satisfaction
11:16 - The happiness paradox
13:38 - Why pleasure is better shared
16:17 - The lost art of boredom
20:47 - Striver's curse
24:19 - The four false idols
27:39 - What's secretly driving you?
37:10 - The reverse bucket list
39:19 - Training your gratitude muscle
44:01 - Raising grateful kids
46:29 - Emotional affect profiles
53:01 - Exercise as mood therapy
56:03 - Arthur's five-step daily protocol
1:00:19 - The meaning of life
1:03:56 - The left-brain trap
1:09:52 - Escaping the Matrix
1:14:50 - The beauty deficit
1:17:49 - Finding your ikigai
1:22:39 - When pain becomes growth
1:31:02 - Metacognition & emotional pain
1:33:37 - Reversing relationship drift
1:40:12 - Rethinking dating apps
1:45:16 - The friendship crisis
1:54:04 - Can happiness be learned?
1:57:14 - Pharmacological treatments
2:00:22 - Exercise vs. antidepressants
2:02:59 - The real value of a PhD
2:04:52 - Lifelong learning & aging
2:09:25 - Digital overload
2:11:52 - Curating your social feed
2:15:33 - Coping skills & happiness
2:16:21 - The power of love
2:17:51 - Real vs. deal marriages
2:19:23 - The second-half blueprint

[Jason Stanley @Jason355f1]

@jackunheard He’s not wrong

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

BREAKING:

A Somali politician in Maine has placed a BOUNTY on the head of a journalist for reporting fraud in Maine’s Mainecare (medical).

WTF is happening in America?!

Time to KICK these LOWLIFE’S OUT.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is what happened. It’s true.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Bret Weinstein just said something that won’t leave my head:
For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding.

Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds.

Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected.

Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think.

And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing.

Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure?

Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness? This 3:52 clip is genuinely haunting.

Watch it all the way through, then tell me — honestly — does this explain the absolute intensity we’re seeing in culture right now, or is Bret completely missing something?

Real answers only. Quote-post if it hits you in the chest like it hit me.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

WOW. Leaked video of Democrat CA Governor Candidate Katie Porter yelling at a staffer to "GET OUT OF MY F*CKING SHOT!"

THIS is who Democrats want as their next governor???

[Jason Stanley @Jason355f1]

@AutismCapital That’s for a judge to decide, even unintentionally committing a crime can have consequences…

[Richard Cooper @Rich_Cooper]

America, the world is watching.

What are you going to do about this?

A trial isn't enough.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🔥 Secretary Kennedy Shuts Down Sen. Wyden’s Performative Outrage

“Senator, you've sat in that chair for how long … while chronic disease in our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing.”

[Jason Stanley @Jason355f1]

@LeadingReport Are these 1.6 million that signed the petition American citizens?

[Jason Stanley @Jason355f1]

@tedcruz As a Republican that actually likes you, drop this and take the L

[Jason Stanley @Jason355f1]

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[Truth HurtsS @RealTruthHurtsS]

Trump’s not wrong here, tariffs used to fund the entire U.S. government before income tax even existed. The shift didn’t happen because it was smart economics, it happened because foreign powers and global corporate interests bought off our politicians. Let that sink in: we're paying income tax so other countries can avoid paying tariffs.

Tariffs protect national industry, income tax punishes the American worker. And when you realize D.C. sold out our economic backbone for personal gain, the outrage isn’t just justified, it’s overdue. The people whining about tariffs today are the same ones who’ve gotten rich off outsourcing and loopholes while you foot the bill.

Why are we still letting foreign interests dictate American tax policy while pretending it’s “democracy”?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This is why Democrats are outraged over tariffs

Donald Trump revealed the only reason we’re still paying an income tax in America is because US Politicians are paid off by foreign countries to not mandate tariffs

Anyone complaining about tariffs is selling you out

“In the early 1900, they switched over stupidly to an income tax. And you know why? Because countries were putting a lot of pressure on America. We don't wanna pay tariffs. Believe me, they control our politicians. If you look at the kind of numbers that these guys make then and now”

We are all literally paying an income tax because US Politicians are taking bribes from foreign counties to enrich themselves

You should be furious

[Jason Stanley @Jason355f1]

@TheBitcoinConf @BitcoinMagazine take these projections with a grain of salt, all off these analysts are emotionally and financially invested into cryptocurrencies.

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

There's footage of Mahmoud Khalil engaging in criminal activity just last week, when he helped take over a Barnard College academic building that was then littered with terrorist propaganda.

Don't let them gaslight you into silence

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

This is one of the software engineers working with Elon Musk on DOGE to reduce our country's excessive spending problem.

Unfathomably based