Tucker Besch

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is.

A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog.

164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything.

Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology.

The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing.

The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it.

Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout.

The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need.

The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.

[Adele Bloch @adele_bloch]

everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager

> drive your friends to the airport
> go to their party even when you're tired
> stop cancelling last minute
> host at your place
> support the wins & losses

it's worth every ounce of effort

[Minnesota Timberwolves @Timberwolves]

🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴

[Jared Doerfler @DoerflerJared]

We are giving away our prototype zero-torque putter.

Not on the website yet - no one else has one.

Here's how to win.

• Retweet this tweet
• Fill out the form in the next tweet

70 lie
3 loft
303 Stainless Steel

Winner can choose the below:

• RH or LH
• Length
• Black or Chrome Shaft

Runs through Monday, 2/2 at 5:00 pm Central. Winner will be selected by 6:00 pm Central on 2/2.

[Jared Doerfler @DoerflerJared]

To celebrate shipping our 1,000th putter at @HannaGolfCo, we are doing a giveaway.

How to enter:

• Retweet this tweet
• Fill out the form in the next tweet

There is a catch: It's a blind giveaway.

It's a prototype.

You will get it before we even release it on our website. But we aren't sharing what the putter model is.

Here is what we are sharing.

• Aged copper plate finish
• Can select length
• Can select lie angle
• Can select sight line
• Can select paint fill color
• Can select black or chrome shaft
• Can pick the initials you want milled

It's a custom prototype putter. You just don't know what it looks like.

We will be releasing this putter in April or May (not the same model we are posting about tomorrow).

I love this putter. We had a DI team in the shop, and half the guys got this putter.

[Kwik Trip @KwikTrip]

this just in: gas station jerseys dropped

[Jack Raines @Jack_Raines]

While I doubt the data is / ever could be public, it would be interesting to see the Kindle stats on the average number of pages read per NYT best-sellers to see which are also NYT best-readers.

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

It is with much regret I must report that Red Panda has dropped a bowl.

[Jared Doerfler @DoerflerJared]

We are giving this @HannaGolfCo putter away.

72 lie
3 loft
Copper plate finish
303 Stainless Steel

Here's how to win.

• Retweet this tweet.
• Click the link in the next tweet below to submit your email address.

Contest will run through Wednesday, 1/21 at 5:00 pm Central. Winner will be selected on Wednesday, 1/21, by 6:00 pm.

Love this finish.

[Tucker Besch @Tucktuckgrayduc]

@nathanbaugh27 Just re-read Hatchet. It had been a long time since I read anything fiction unfortunately, so a step in the right direction

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett is reuniting with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Lynx in a new, all-encompassing role involving business, community efforts and content development, sources told ESPN. His long-awaited No. 21 Wolves jersey retirement will also happen in Minnesota.

[Wolves Crunch @WolvesCrunch]

Triple victory lunch 22 years in the making.

[Will Reichard @WillReichard]

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[Ryan Wright @rjwright14_]

Vote the @Vikings specialists to the Pro Bowl!!

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[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

Some of you may have noticed, many probably didn’t.

Earlier this week: X pushed an update which changed the UX of your mobile device timeline, confirmed by the owner of this business in a post published on 11/27 at 12:56 AM ET. 

For accounts who follow whatever the unknown minimum # is, the ‘Following’ tab now displays a dropdown arrow.

If you click it, you are prompted to ‘Sort following’ where you are offered two options to choose: ‘Most recent’, and what the current default is (for me, tested on four different accounts based in the US) ‘Popular’. 

The ‘Popular’ feed is defined, in the same post published by the owner of the company, as “Posts of people you follow are now ranked by Grok.” 

What this means is your default mobile app ‘Following’ tab is now going to display content to you the same way the ‘For You’ timeline does, but it will be exclusive to people you follow as opposed to users from both inside AND outside your network that the algorithm thinks you will enjoy or engage with.

I’m writing this today because I think is the one change to the platform’s utility which will finally cause niche communities on here to go from an endangered species to extinct.

Let me first start by reminding everyone what made Twitter/makes X different than all of the other social media platforms throughout time: utility.

You will be seeing this word often throughout this post, because with all due respect to Reddit: this has always been the place you go to react to breaking news, current events, live sports, award shows, big tech keynote reveals, etc.

You chose here because you knew the moment you loaded the app, the perishable content you were looking to consume would be presented in a chronological format without having to apply any additional clicks or opening of separate tabs. This simple accessibility incentivized authentic engagement and community formation around any particular event.

Because my particular audience is mostly following me for NBA content and/or Live Police Chases, I will use these examples to elaborate further. 

In 2020: when the NBA returned to play after the COVID pandemic suspension, the Los Angeles Clippers committed a basketball atrocity blowing a 3-1 series lead against the Denver Nuggets. They didn’t just lose the final game, they were horrifically embarrassed. It is the last time I can remember when no matter what team you root for, whatever sport you watch, or even if you had no clue what was going on: the world logged on simultaneously, and unified to crack jokes at the Clippers’ expense. 

I recall distinctly how many times I saw an “OMG” or “LOL” or “GTFOH” tweet pop up on the timeline and knew exactly what they were referencing when Paul George’s shot hit the side of the backboard.

“OMG”, “LOL”, “GTFOH” have zero evergreen value. They are reactions which require context of monoculture consumption, and once the game ended the only reason to engage with posts of this or similar simpleness was to read the comments. However, when/shortly-after being published, they served a significant groupthink purpose.

With the new Following tab updates being deployed this week, these posts and these moments will no longer be seen by anyone who does not take the time to change their settings from “Popular” to “Most recent”. “OMG” is going to require serious interaction to make the “Popular” timeline in the first place, and even if it ends up on there: by the time a “Popular” timeline user sees it: the moment will have passed as the feed is not chronological. 

I read something like that hours later, or a very time-sensitive joke: and I would be nothing other than confused.

Think of how many live event communities there are in the world. When there is a video game demo debut streamed on YouTube Live, the comments populate in real-time on the right side of the screen, while the comments below the video are sorted by popularity once the live stream concludes.

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[Kevin Garnett @KevinGarnett5KG]

Toooooouuuuuugggghhhh 🔥🐺

[Timothée Chalamet @RealChalamet]

MARTY SUUUUUUUUUPREME

[Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA]

The NBC broadcasts tell you the story of the game, ESPN broadcasts tell you what they think of the game.

Very different viewing experiences.

[Jared Doerfler @DoerflerJared]

Let’s give this putter away.

72 lie
3 loft
Copper plate finish
303 Stainless Steel

Here’s how to win.

• Retweet this tweet.
• Click the link in the next tweet below to submit your email address.

Contest will run through Monday 10/27 at 1:00 pm Central. Winner will be selected on Monday 10/27 by 6:00 pm.

My favorite finish we have done.

[Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell]

Two consecutive wins for the Panthers since that podcast stopped podcasting?