Kim Tate

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Your entire life will change when you realize preparation always beats planning. Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos. Plan for order and you'll be destroyed by chaos. Prepare for chaos and you'll thrive in any condition.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Envy and resent act as a dominant negatives on your ability to be inspired. Protect that ability at all costs.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Scott Adams on not fearing embarrassment:

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Happiness & wellbeing are like a leaky tire. You have to keep pumping them up. Because we adapt. Thinking about these as moments & not some larger trait reframes everything in beneficial ways. This squares with the biology too. Dr Nick Epley on the Huberman Lab podcast out now.

[Art of Pure Mind @Artofpuremind]

Be careful of the things you say

[Kim Tate @KimTaate]

@ChrisVanHollen lol and you didn’t think “gosh these look like alcoholic drinks, maybe optically this isn’t the best idea” before giving the green light for the photo op

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody told you: Talent and intelligence are overrated. Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong. The truth is that talent and intelligence are abundant. Courage is not. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t. I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. It's taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Sosa | Mental Strategist @MetaMorpehus]

How to make the right decision everytime:

[Kim Tate @KimTaate]

@SecDuffy how is it legal for trains to be allowed to just stop and block traffic during rush hour for extended periods of time!!! 😡✊🏽 going on almost 30 minutes now

[Kim Tate @KimTaate]

@TMobileHelp Thanks, but I resolved it (cancelled, for good) in a physical store in 5 minutes. It took 20 minutes on the phone with one of your “customer service reps” for them to tell me to call back in 4 days.

[Kim Tate @KimTaate]

No one loathes @TMobile internet customer service more than me. Absolutely abysmal service.

[Kim Tate @KimTaate]

There’s no such thing as a positive experience with your company when it comes to internet customer service. I’m trying to cancel my account and your reps are telling me I can’t until the 19th. If I call to cancel, it’s because I want cancellation to be taken care of here and now. It already takes 10 minutes to get through to a rep, who reads from a script and randomly goes silent. Why on earth would I want to put myself through that experience a second time? I don’t know any other company on the planet that operates like this.

[Cats with Aura 😺 @catwithaura]

Carefully calculate just to fall on everyone

[Kim Tate @KimTaate]

@OC_Scanner Is your power out?

[Kim Tate @KimTaate]

Thank you for all you do! Please please please fix the customizable “For You” feed so I don’t have to filter my feed every single time I check this platform 😭 and please bring back the chronological timeline… all I see are posts from between 5 and 23 hours ago. Between that and the constant AI slop it’s driving me (and others I’m sure) bonkers. Thank you! 🙏🏽

[The Pets 𝕏 @ThePetsX]

Woman shows the importance of adopting stray cats who only need love

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this one. Your brain burns 20% of your body's total energy. It weighs 2% of your mass.

Per gram, it costs 10 times as much to run as muscle. And it barely changes its energy consumption whether you're solving calculus or staring at a wall. A focused mental task increases brain energy use by less than 5%. The difference between "thinking hard" and "doing nothing" is not how much fuel you burn. It's where the fuel goes.

When you don't give your brain a specific task, it defaults to something neuroscientists call the Default Mode Network, a set of brain regions that fire up when you're not focused on anything external. It runs your inner monologue. Rehashes old conversations. Simulates future arguments you'll probably never have. Replays embarrassing moments from 2014.

A 2010 Harvard study tracked 2,250 people via a smartphone app, pinging them at random moments to ask what they were doing and thinking. Result: our minds wander 47% of our waking hours. Nearly half your conscious life, your brain is somewhere else. And the people whose minds wandered most were consistently the least happy, regardless of what they were doing. How often your mind drifts predicted your happiness 2x better than whatever activity you were doing at the time.

When you give the brain a goal, the entire system reorganizes. The prefrontal cortex takes over, activating your brain's reward and motivation pathways. A 2022 Nature Communications study found that goal-relevant information enters through the prefrontal cortex, triggers dopamine neurons, and creates a self-reinforcing motivation loop. Your brain literally rewards itself for pursuing something meaningful.

A 2026 review in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience found that flow states, those moments of complete task absorption, partially quiet the Default Mode Network. Less DMN activity meant less self-evaluation, less rumination, and lower anxiety. A twin study of over 9,000 people found that people who experienced flow more often had lower rates of depression, anxiety, and roughly 4% lower risk of heart disease, even after controlling for genetics.

The longevity data makes it real. A 2022 Harvard study tracked 13,000+ adults aged 50+ for 8 years. People with the strongest sense of purpose had a 15.2% mortality rate over that period. Lowest sense of purpose: 36.5%. More than double. The effect held across race, ethnicity, and gender. A separate meta-analysis of 136,000+ people found that a strong purpose was linked to a 17% lower risk of death from any cause. Purposeful people were 24% less likely to become physically inactive and 33% less likely to develop sleep problems.

Dan Koe compressed a lot of neuroscience into one sentence. The brain doesn't idle when you don't give it a goal. It defaults to a mode that burns the same 20 watts but points them inward, toward rumination and anxiety. Give it a direction, and those same watts start building motivation loops, quieting your inner critic, and apparently adding years to your life.

[PUNS @ThePunnyWorld]

The U.S. should add 3 more states.

Because 53 is a prime number.
Then they can truly be one nation, indivisible.