Pinan Life

Writer, business professional, martial artist and student. Let's get better together every day. Self improvement is self defense.

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

In Project Ghostbusters, #Facebook acquired a #VPN company so they could pay teenagers to use it and then spy on their network activity.

We would say the bar for #bigtech is low, but let’s not forget they made enough money in the first week of 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines.

Read more about why we need bigger fines for Big Tech. https://t.co/GLcFrGz3U8

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@jsrailton Agree. So, what do we do? Can we make it better? Should we go to blue sky or some other place?

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@josephfcox Like @X for instance?

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

If something does not feel right, digital or physical world, there is a reason for that. You need trust that feeling and take steps.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

“I would recommend avoidance first. That’s because fighting will always be available, but it isn’t always possible to go back to avoidance once a war is under way.”
-Gavin de Becker

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

"The only way to be private is to stop using the internet"

Let's stop that defeatist nonsense. There are absolutely ways for people to be more private online. Let's stop disempowering them, and teach them how.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@KianAmeli Progress not perfection.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

Nailed it.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

There’s no such thing as, “I don’t have enough time.” You always have enough time. You don’t have the right priorities.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@KianAmeli Same is true for martial arts or self defense class. Need to account for all skill levels present while not being too little or too much. Definite skill.

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

The childhood obesity rate in Japan is 4%

The United States is 500% higher.

We are uniquely poisoning our kids in America.

And the solution isn’t more drugs.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

This thing that I am unhappy about, is it actually hard to change or is it simply hard to have the courage to change it?

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@misha_saul Love this, thank you!

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@RyanHoliday I want to leave something for my kids to remember me by. To be able to share with their kids, etc. Is that anti-stoic?

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

Acta non verba

[EchelonFront @EchelonFront]

Everyone wants some magic pill — some life hack — that eliminates the need to do the work.

But that doesn’t exist.

You have to do the work. You’ve got to make it happen.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

I second this.

[Jameel Jaffer @JameelJaffer]

Well said, @evan_greer. https://t.co/AuuL7ASkI8

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@AlaskaChaz Beans, rice and 16 AR-15s for each member of the family.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

There are 262 types of "sugar" listed on food labels (per @RobertLustigMD )

Seem a bit excessive?

This is by design. You can have "sugar" as ingredients 5, 6 and 7, when in reality "sugar" is #1 component.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

Who do you want to be?

I want to be better not perfect.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@KianAmeli I did not know that was still a thing. I’m a positive note, at least someone got outside and took in some fresh air.

[Pinan Life @pinanlife]

@markmanson And you need to be able to do it when no one is looking and without needing validation of others on social or wherever else.