Memento Ludi

[Anders Fogh Rasmussen @AndersFoghR]

The world's democracies are being targeted one by one. That has to stop.

China has imposed trade boycotts on Australia, Lithuania, South Korea and Canada. Each time, the target stood alone. Each time, it worked.

The answer is not self-sufficiency. It is collective action.

Today I launch After the Rupture: An alliance of middle-power democracies led by a D-7: seven democracies representing 30% of the global economy, acting together on trade, technology, critical minerals and defence.

Not a new institution. A coalition of the willing, and the able.

Full paper → https://t.co/puAxqaYUYQ

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

Most of the highest IQ people I know have nothing to show for it. They work dead-end jobs and spend their spare time playing video games and arguing over Star Wars minutiae on Reddit, contributing little to the world and producing nothing of value.

It’s not because they’re misunderstood geniuses, whose brilliance is incomprehensible to us normies (as much as some of them would like to think this to be the case).

It’s because the culture and the incentivizes of the K-12 school system and the academic world failed to teach them what society actually values.

If you’re naturally smart, you can sail through the education system with ease, even at the post-grad level. You go to class (or don’t go to class, as the case may be!), write an occasional paper, study a little bit the night before your midterms and finals, and walk away with pieces of paper attesting to your a status as a Certifiable Smart and Capable Person™️. Because this is the only world you’ve known for the first 22 to 25 years of life, you mistakenly believe that this matters, that the broader world—the one in which, unbeknownst to yourself, one must create value for others in other to receive value for oneself—will appreciate you simply by virtue of your natural gifts.

It’s not your fault for believing this. But it’s wrong.

Because, as we normal people know, what our society—whatever every flourishing society in human history, for that matter—value is output. Deliverables. Product. Things of utility to other people, be they economic, cultural, intellectual, or any other nature that someone, somewhere, will be willing to exchange some measure of value to gain access to. (Side note: Let’s be honest, it’s all economic in the end.)

Your natural talents—your high IQ, your analytical capabilities, your creativity, etc.—are INPUTS for these outputs, not outputs unto themselves. And, in a world that rewards production, not consumption, inputs only matter as a means to the end of delivering said outputs.

So you now find yourself in a competitive environment, where the gifts that brought you heretofore in life are no longer celebrated for their own sake but are valued only in as much as they are useful in delivering work. For many, it’s a brutal awakening. But there’s a second lesson you’re about to learn that’s likely even more painful:

Work requires… work. As in a work ethic. Discipline. Grit. Accountability.

And you likely never developed those things. You didn’t need to. You were rewarded—celebrated, even—by virtue of NOT needing them.

This is why gifted education in the K-12 system is so critical. It’s not just so that smart kids “don’t get bored” (though that, in its own right, is certainly important!). It’s because, if the best and brightest of our youth aren’t tasked with work commensurate with their abilities, they won’t be forced to actually work. And they’ll never won’t develop the skills and personality traits that society requires until, for too many of them, it’s too late.

If we want more Isaac Newtons and fewer disgruntled Reddit trolls, that’s the change we need to make to our education system and the investment we need to make in these kids’ future.

[Shawn Harris for Congress @ShawnForGeorgia]

I'm running against Marjorie Taylor Greene.

As a retired Brigadier General, I can't sit idly by while my own Congress member is so unpatriotic to the nation I fought for for 40 years.

Can you please retweet and follow us so we get to 100,000 followers and spread our message?

[Memento Ludi @MementoLudi]

@soltwagner Please send. Thanks!

[Solt Wagner @soltwagner]

I've created a new, simple Personal Notion Dashboard using the GTD method (Get Things Done).

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Just reply "Send", RT, and Like this post, and I'll send it to you via DM.

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[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(THREAD) This is a brief thread from a NYT-bestselling Trump biographer on what everyone—literally everyone—is missing about the 34 felonies Donald Trump committed to win the 2016 presidential election. This will change how you understand the 2016 election cycle.

Please RETWEET.

[Memento Ludi @MementoLudi]

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[kuno @kunoo]

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[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

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[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Elon Musk has taught me that with effort, a strong entreprenueurial spirit, an emerald mine, a lot of exploitation, self-dealing, white privelege, a bad hair transplant, supplemental testosterone, a charity that gives money to itself, ecstasy, ketamine, weed, cocaine, people loathing you so much they pay you to go away and most of all a sh*tload of government subsidies, you can accomplish whatever you want in America.

[Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller]

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[Memento Ludi @MementoLudi]

@jonnym1ller Looks like I can't actually message you either without being verified.

[Jan Barta @absurdtrader]

We live in a time increasingly resembling the second half of the 1930s. I couldn't live with myself with the knowledge I didn't do more to stop another Hitler. In light of the Republican wavering and in memory of Navalny I will give $100 towards FPV drones for Ukr for every RT.

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[Memento Ludi @MementoLudi]

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