Matthew A

[John Moody 🇺🇬 @resisfertile]

Brothers and sisters,
The choices you make today.

Are the futures of your children and grandchildren.

To get up move, walk, lift, run, sprint...
Or sit on the coach or scroll on your phone.

To break open the Bible and read book by book with your wife and children...
Or to be "too busy..." or too absent or too entertained for simple consistent family devotions.

To get outdoors, hike, breathe fresh air, see sunlight...
Or to constantly be trapped on media, entertainment, and computers...

To save and invest... or squander through ill-use...

To laugh, have fun, read books and play games...
Or be consumed by sports, news, and social media.

The good things you say you want for your children and
grandchildren are either being squandered or stored up day after day after day, by the decisions you make today.

Every day is either deposits or withdrawals. Steward the day wisely.
"A wise man leaves an inheritance to his children's children."

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Marc Andreessen went on Chris Williamson's podcast and broke down exactly how Elon Musk runs multiple companies at once

No other CEO on Earth does this:

1. Every week, Musk shows up at each of his companies, identifies the single biggest problem that company is having that week, and fixes it. Then he does that for 52 weeks in a row. At the end of the year, each company has solved its 52 biggest problems. Meanwhile, most large companies are still having the planning meeting for the pre-planning meeting for the board presentation with the compliance review and the legal review attached.

2. This is not a new operating method. It is actually how the great industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s ran their companies. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, who built IBM. Total devotion from the leader to fully and deeply understand what the company does, be in the trenches, talk directly to the people doing the work, and be the lead problem solver in the organization. Andreessen says he is not aware of another current CEO who operates this way.

3. The framework Musk uses is the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always one thing holding everything up. Sometimes it is raw materials at the start. Sometimes it is warehousing at the end. Sometimes it is in the middle. The job is to find it and remove it. Musk has universalized this concept across every company he runs. In any given week, there is one main bottleneck. He micromanages the solution to that one thing and delegates almost everything else.

4. Musk delegates almost everything. Andreessen is clear about this. He is not involved in most of what his companies are doing. He is involved in the one thing that is the biggest problem right now. Once that is fixed, he moves to the next biggest problem. Everything else by definition, is running better than the bottleneck, so it does not need him.

5. When Musk identifies the bottleneck, he goes directly to the engineer who actually understands it. not the VP of engineering, not the director, not the manager. The individual contributor who has the actual technical knowledge. He sits in the room with that person and fixes the problem alongside them. He does not ask for a report to be reviewed in three weeks. he shows up at the keyboard or on the manufacturing line and works through it overnight if necessary.

6. This is why technical people who work for Musk say it was the best experience of their lives. Andreessen's framing: if you are stuck on a problem you cannot solve, Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream, sit with you in front of the keyboard, and help you figure it out. For an engineer who genuinely cares about the work, that is an almost incomprehensible level of support from the CEO of the company.

7. Business school teaches the opposite of this: management as a generic skill applicable to any industry. Soup company or a rocket company, the management principles are the same. process, balance sheet, meeting schedules, compliance, executive motivation, interpersonal conflict resolution. Andreessen says those skills are useful in many contexts. They just give you nothing; you need to do what Musk does. And Musk pushes as far as he can away from all of that so he can spend all of his time doing the things only he can do.

[John Moody 🇺🇬 @resisfertile]

Brothers,
Biblical masculinity is pursuing skill in wisdom like Solomon

Biblical masculinity is pursuing skill in song and music like David

BM is pursuing skill in metal and stone work like Bezalel, Oholiab, and Hiram/Huram

BM is pursuing skill with women like Song of Songs and Proverbs 30.18-19

BM is pursuing skill in rhetoric and repartee like Elijah and John the Baptist and many other prophets (that is learning to talk a big game).

BM is pursuing skill in leadership and planning like Nehemiah.

BM is pursuing skill with and over a household, like Abraham, Boaz, and elders in the New Testament

BM is pursuing skill with arms and strength like David and His mighty men

Be certain brothers, there is nothing biblical about a masculinity that has left out the actual, practical manliness

[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.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

The left is not furious over @elonmusk’s wealth.

They are furious that he is able to accomplish so much with money voluntarily given, while leftist politicians take it by force and make things worse.

Elon is hated because he is evidence of their incompetence and corruption.

[Ben Zornes @benzornes]

Imagine you could withdraw every dollar you have contributed to Social Security, but you could only invest it via a legitimate IRA or 401k. Instead, SS is heading towards insolvency, meaning your dollars are not only not earning interest, they are being lit on fire.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Gatekeeping is necessary and good. Every church, family, business, and nation has a gate, whether it admits it or not. The question is never whether there will be gatekeepers, but whether they will be wise enough to know what belongs inside and courageous enough to keep out what does not.

The people standing outside the gate will almost always call the gate unjust. The wolf rarely praises the fence, and the counterfeit coin never approves of the merchant’s scales. But the existence of complaints does not invalidate the boundary. It often proves the boundary is doing its job.

A world without gates is a world where nothing can be protected, preserved, or passed down. Every healthy institution requires standards, judgments, and men willing to bear the burden of saying both yes and no.

[Timon Cline @tlloydcline]

“If the world would, in time, go republican, then the world must first convert to civilizational Protestantism, the sine qua non of true, as opposed to merely pagan, liberty.”

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

That’s Tennessee and Indiana now who have officially declared June as nuclear family month. If you’re a red state governor and you’re not doing this, why not? Do it now. It is time to go on offense.

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

This is revealing, and disturbing.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Wasting time is costly because it rarely feels dangerous while it is happening.

It usually comes quietly. A few minutes here. A distraction there. One more glance at a notification. One more hour given to something that does not matter much. It rarely feels like you are throwing life away. It feels small. Harmless. Easy to justify.

Perhaps, you tell yourself you are paying attention because you care. That this is time well spent. That while others sleep, you are staying watchful.

It feels like vigilance and preparedness. It feels like keeping informed for the sake of your family, exposing what others refuse to see, gathering knowledge that will one day prove necessary.

So you tell yourself.

When you are young, this is especially easy because time feels endless. You spend it freely because you assume there will always be more. More time to get serious. More time to become disciplined. More time to repair what was neglected. More time to become the husband, father, worker, or man you know you ought to be.

But time does not wait for us to get serious.

It keeps moving.

Tick.
Tick.
Tick.

And as the years pass, life has a way of waking you up to what was lost.

The child you were too distracted to notice becomes the grown son who no longer thinks to call when he is in town.

The wife whose attempts at connection were often pushed aside stops trying as much.

The discipline you meant to develop tomorrow hardens over years of weak habits.

The opportunities to build, teach, shape, save, and prepare slowly pass by.

And one of the hardest lessons a man learns is that some things cannot simply be made up later.

You can repent. You can change. You can be forgiven. But forgiveness does not always remove the earthly consequences of wasted years.

This is what makes wasting time such a costly illness. It steals slowly. Quietly. Almost invisibly. Often you do not realize what it has taken until you look up and see what could have been.

What a tragedy to become deeply informed about things far away while neglecting the people sitting across from you in your own living room.

What a tragedy to model for your children a life ruled by distant distractions instead of faithful attention to what is nearest.

The most important work most men will ever do is not flashy.

It is the ordinary work of daily faithfulness. Listening well. Praying consistently. Teaching patiently. Working hard. Paying attention. Being fully present where God has placed you.

That kind of life is built slowly.

And so is its opposite.

Tick.
Tick.
Tick.

Do not waste your time.

Spend it on what will still matter when the noise fades, and all that remains is what you built in the lives of those God gave you to love.

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

“I long for the day when the precepts of the Christian religion shall be the rule among all classes of men, in all transactions!

I often hear it said, ‘Do not bring religion into politics.’ This is precisely where it ought to be brought, and set there in the face of all men as on a candlestick!

I would have the Cabinet and the members of Parliament do the work of the nation as before the Lord, and I would have the nation, either in making war or peace, consider the matter by the light of righteousness.

We are to deal with other nations about this or that upon the principles of the New Testament. I thank God that I have lived to see the attempt made in one or two instances, and I pray that the principle may become dominant and permanent!

We have had enough of clever men without consciences—let us now see what honest, God-fearing men will do!��

—Charles Spurgeon

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate

[Matthew A @MatthewA644840]

Praise God for the small things!

[Insider Wire @InsiderWire]

#BREAKING: DOJ sues to block Denver’s gun ban as unconstitutional.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Kill

The

Kill

Switch

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

In 1913, only 1% of households filed income tax

Now, 100% do.

Every time a tax scheme is created, it starts with "just the rich" and quickly applies to everyone.

Every time.

California will seize assets of every citizen if this passes.

Not income, assets. Your house. Your furniture.

This would end the Golden State.

[Peter Leithart @PLeithart]

Man eats vegetables, Oliver O’Donovan says, because they’re food, not because man has devised a culinary use for them.

Sure: We eat potatoes because they have nutritional value, because God designed them to be eaten.

But that's hardly the whole story. At some point, something like this must have happened: Man (let's call him "Adam") finds potato. Adam bites potato. Adam's tummy turns upside down.

Adam throws potato away in disgust. Potato lands in the fire. Adam tries hot potato and suddenly conceives of sour cream.

Or, a more scientifically inclined Adam feeds potato to his pig, and the pig cracks a grin and doesn’t die.

So is a diet of potatoes a “natural” or a “cultural” achievement? It's clearly both, especially once we move from the discovery of a random potato to the cultivation of potatoes, the use of fertilizers (natural and artificial) to increase potato production, the expansion of potato production into a global commodity, and the deliberate breeding of colorful new varieties of potatoes.

And it’s both nature and culture because potatoes aren’t just food – we can carve them into children’s toys, shape them to stop a bung hole or to plug a crack to keep the wind away.

If we want to analyze the potato as it actually exists in our world, we must talk about the “culture of the potato.”

And, to raise the argument a notch: If human beings are integral to creation, then the “nature” of the potato (or anything else) is bound up with the human deployment of said vegetable (or animal or mineral).

We might wish, as a thought experiment, to talk about the natural potato, red in tooth and claw, but then we’re talking about potatoes in an alternate universe.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Aaron does his homework.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

People say you have to sacrifice to homeschool...
thats true.

You also sacrifice when you send your kids to "public" school.

So the question is not "whether you sacrifice."

It's "what you sacrifice."