Rusty

Wealth Manager | Average Golfer | Spartan Alum

[Dr. Ben Braddock @GraduatedBen]

President Trump condemns LED light bulbs, says “the light is no good”, praises incandescent light bulbs as superior choice.

[Adam Piron @adam_piron]

still think about this bit everyday. line reading of the decade.

[Rusty @RustBeltLooper]

Lacrosse segue pipeline finance. Time to have a billion transfusions #TheMemorial

[Kerrod Gray | Professional Golf Coach @kerrodgraygolf]

Chunking your irons? You are probably getting stuck on your back foot. #golf

[JonathanYarwood @JonathanYarwood]

Live lesson: i see this move often with players who have no attack angle and hit it thin and fat. The pelvis really is a key to good ball striking. See what I mean here 👌🏼⛳️🔥

[Drake Smith @drakesmith__]

If I had one drill to do it would be this.

Learning to get your weight left earlier in the swing will take care of a lot of back swing problems.

In fact you won't even think about your backswing.

[Drake Smith @drakesmith__]

Hip High Swings:

This is the bulk of what I will do the first 15 minutes of a practice session.

I always feel if I can see the ball fly like I want to with these hip high swings then my full swing is just an extension of this.

This is a great way to work into your golf swing if you flip it, stand up through it, struggle with face control and low point.

The simplicity of the hip high swings will expose compensations in your golf swings.

[Drake Smith @drakesmith__]

Keeping your chest down through the ball is often a new feel for people.

This drill not only helps with club face control but will help you to understand what it feels like to stay down and through it and not tilt and come out of it.

[Rusty @RustBeltLooper]

@TheRyenRussillo This is the mid life crisis version of that Julian Newman dribbling mixtape

[DoYouDig @DoYouDig2]

My favorite part from the Shelby Foote interviews:
Before the war, it was said ‘the United States are’—grammatically it was spoken that way and thought of as a collection of independent states. And after the war it was always ‘the United States is,’ as we say today without being self-conscious at all. And that sums up what the war accomplished. It made us an ‘is.’

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Fried Egg Golf @fried_egg_golf]

No better way to kick off Memorial Day weekend than a couple days in Southwest Michigan with Fried Egg Golf Club.

If there's a better 48-hour trip than Lost Dunes, Journeyman Distillery, and Dunes Club, we’ve yet to find it.

[The Timeless Traveler @TimelessTrvlr]

Naples, Florida seems like the kind of place where people finally slow down long enough to enjoy their lives again.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Technology stocks are driving historic market gains:

The Information Technology sector has returned +225.7% since the bull market started on October 12th, 2022, leading every other sector.

This is followed by Communication Services, which has surged +212.3% over the same period.

Both sectors have outperformed the S&P 500's gain of +107.0% by more than 100 percentage points.

By comparison, industrials, consumer discretionary, and financials have risen +102.1%, +76.6%, and +70.8%, respectively.

Therefore, just 2 of 11 sectors have outperformed the broader market during the current bull run.

The market cannot thrive without tech.

[Drake Smith @drakesmith__]

One of my favorite drills to do at home to learn to square the face and rotate properly.

If you tilt and flip this will having you feeling all kinds of new things.

[Rusty @RustBeltLooper]

@PaulSkallas This is why the real flex now is living a daily life that you do not want to escape.