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[Ky @KyChristensen]

@simongerman600 @chi22le

[𝕮 @XCzsnx]

my brother moved back home at 34 after his startup failed and we were all being very careful about it until thanksgiving when my grandpa asked directly across the table "so what happened." my brother said "it didn't work out." my grandpa said "why not." my mom said "dad" and my grandpa said "I'm asking because I want to know, not because I'm judging." my brother looked at him for a second and then talked for eleven minutes straight. really talked. about what went wrong and what he'd missed and what he'd learned and what he wished he'd done. nobody interrupted. my grandpa just ate his food and nodded. when my brother finished my grandpa said "I had a business fail in 1971. cost me everything. I've never told any of you that." my dad said "what?" and my grandpa said "hardware store on clemson avenue. lasted fourteen months." nobody knew. forty-three years nobody knew. my grandpa said "I drove past that building for thirty years and eventually it stopped hurting and started feeling like information." my brother said "information about what" and my grandpa said "about what I actually wanted. which was not that hardware store." my brother is doing something different now. smaller. nothing glamorous. he says it feels like the right size. my grandpa asked about it at easter and my brother talked for eleven minutes again and my grandpa did the same thing. just ate and nodded. some people teach you that failure is just a building you drive past until it tells you something useful.

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@pegobry_en @lc wydt lol

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@yin_yang_yo_ @sugarspunskies

[jo johnson @josbjohnson]

one common trait I find in high achieving individuals is urgency. it looks almost like impatience until you understand it is closer to reverence, a deep refusal to waste the one thing they can’t buy more of. the alarm goes and they rise. the message is answered while it is still warm. the small task is done before it can find a shelf to hide on. they commit and move in a single motion. an idea sparks and they chase it that day, before the world talks them out of it. they run at their own lives like something is at stake, because they have decided something is.

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@OldHollowTree @sugarspunskies

[Ryan B. Anderson @OldHollowTree]

It's honestly amazing that New England has the forests it does, given we practically clearcut it in the 1800s.

You're living through one of the greatest stories of forest revitalization in history but it doesn't really make headlines does it?

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

The FIRE (financial independence retire early) movement has done an immense amount of harm to society

This is coming from someone who used to be a believer in FIRE, but I have realized just how much of a fallacy it is, as I have grown older

Taking a bunch of high potential income earners and convincing them that their life goal should be to pursue a net worth that allows them to check out of society is immensely damaging to the social fabric

Many of these people sit on the upper echelon of office jobs, have built great businesses, or are at the top of their field in their career field

They should be inspired to continue doing what they are best at, and ultimately, mentor and give back to the next generation who want to pursue those same goals

Instead, many of these FIRE folks become wandering retirees with a meaningless life who are trying to grasp on to money as their north star

It is a false sense of security and accomplishment. Becoming wealthy should never be a goal in the first place.

It should have always been to pursue something that adds meaning to your own life and to society

It is a completely fallacy to believe that retiring will be your source of happiness. More often than not, it has the complete opposite effect

[Daniel @danielgothits]

America is literally being strangled to death by this

[Ky @KyChristensen]

Does Norway not have enough money to bribe FIFA or were they just being too Nordic

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@TerribleMaps @sugarspunskies Can you guess where Haaland is from ha

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Erling Haaland calls raw milk his "magic potion." A glass in the morning, another after training, stirred into his coffee, blended with greens and carried to the pitch. He has drunk it since he was a boy in Norway, and his body was built to do it ten thousand years before he was born.

Start with the number. Five percent. That is roughly how often the milk gene shows up in Stone Age Scandinavia. Dig up a Neolithic skeleton from up there and the mutation that lets a grown adult drink milk is almost nowhere to be found.

Today around nine in ten Scandinavians digest it without a second thought. One of the steepest genetic swings in the entire human record, done in an evolutionary blink.

Genes do not move like that on their own. For a trait to jump from nearly absent to near universal, something has to be quietly removing the people who lack it. For ten thousand years in the north, something was.

The land did it. Fjords, mountains, a growing season too short and dark to lean on plants. Nobody gardened their way through a Norwegian winter. What you had was animals, their milk, their butter, their cheese, and fish from the cold water. The adult who could stomach milk in February saw the spring. The one who doubled over and couldn't keep it down was likelier to die before he had children. Run that lottery every winter for four hundred generations and you no longer have a preference. You have a mutation, hammered into a whole people by the plain arithmetic of who lived.

Which is the code Haaland is running. He isn't chasing a trend. His ancestors drank milk to survive the dark. He drinks it and puts Brazil out of a World Cup. Same gene, better lighting.

The wellness crowd think they found raw milk on YouTube last spring. His people were dying for the privilege before Rome was built.

Which makes the modern sermon rich. Milk is for babies. You're the only species that drinks it. Evolution heard every word and rewrote the northern genome to keep drinking anyway.

And England, on Saturday? Same gene. Same nine in ten. The Romans watched the Britons drink theirs raw too. One nation kept the habit. The other made you drive to a farm gate for it.

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@IQshredded @sugarspunskies

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@NEETdrangheta99 The Balkans and Scandinavian regions have great sporting cultures

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@PuncheurCycling @sugarspunskies

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

A matchup that goes back 1,237 years.

[Ky @KyChristensen]

Come on woody your last name is Harrelson support the Scandinavians #brazivsnorway

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@dioscuri @sugarspunskies this is how I feel about Boston and Europe

[Ky @KyChristensen]

@ComputerTwink @SkinnyTuna I’d think people would be smarter and know health is wealth and being overweight is the culprit for so much disease and unhappiness too tho