Working Quietly

When a quiet person won't argue back, it doesn't mean you're right. We may have already made the chess move to win the fight. #introvert

[Fit And Fortune @FitAndFortune]

Because peace becomes worth more than being seen.

After enough noise, drama, and empty validation, silence feels like wealth. You stop performing, stop explaining, stop chasing relevance.

Some men don’t disappear.
They retreat to protect what matters.

And once you taste that kind of quiet, the crowd has very little to offer.

[Jerry Lee @JerryJHLee]

I applied to 100 jobs using a resume with the name, "Kismma D. Nhuhts" and I got 29 interviews.

This is what I've learned about resumes:

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@riverrat328 @JimDand87211358 @AMilitantAgnost https://t.co/Oo2towKrsu

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

In 1992, I was 15 years old and had landed in Japan for my first extended trip abroad. I would be an exchange student at Seikei Gakuen high school for one year.

On the first day of classes, I reported to the faculty lounge in my required navy-blue uniform, looking like a West Point cadet. I nervously awaited my student chaperone, who would be taking me to my “home class,” the group of 40 or so students I’d be spending most of my time with. One of the faculty members noticed me sitting in the corner and approached:

“Ah, Timu-kun!” he said with a wave. Kun is like -san but used to address male inferiors.

“Kore wa . . .” This is . . . he said as he pointed at a mysterious piece of paper. I could barely manage greetings, so he hailed an English teacher to explain the document. The page, written entirely in characters I couldn’t read, detailed my daily schedule, as it turned out.

The English teacher translated: “Physics, mathematics, world history, kobun—ah . . . traditional Japanese,” and on it went.

Panic set in. I’d only had a few months of rudimentary Japanese prior to arrival, and my teachers in the U.S. had reassured me with: “Don’t worry, you’ll have plenty of Japanese classes!”

Now irretrievably in Tokyo, I realized I was dealing with a major Lost in Translation screwup.

“Japanese classes” hadn’t meant language classes. For the entire year ahead, I was to attend normal Japanese high school classes alongside 5,000 Japanese students prepping for university exams! This is when I pooped my Pampers.

I proceeded to flounder horribly, just as I’d failed with Spanish in junior high. Sadly, it seemed I was simply “bad at languages.” Six months into my exchange, I was ready to go home.

Then Lady Luck smiled upon me. I stumbled upon a poster while looking for The Book of Five Rings in the Kinokuniya bookstore in Shinjuku.

This poster, which I still have on my wall 30 years later, contains all 1,945 of the joyo kanji, the characters designated for basic literacy by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Most newspapers and magazines limit themselves to the joyo kanji. For all practical purposes, this means that if you know the meaning-rich characters on the poster, you know Japanese, including all the most important verbs.

Japanese on one page! Holy shit!

Language is infinitely expansive and therefore horribly overwhelming if unfiltered.

This poster was a revelation. It brought to light the most important lesson of language learning: what you study is more important than how you study.

Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn’t matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn’t matter how good your teacher is.

Material beats method.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

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[Working Quietly @WorkingQuietly]

High performers are sometimes punished with more work. Here’s how to avoid getting quiet promoted #introvert #work #life https://t.co/PTepY3gfSs

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[AZ Department of Health @AZDHS]

If it’s been at least two months since your last shot, you can get the Omicron booster to help strengthen your protection against COVID-19.

Get vaccinated: https://t.co/q2kfD0trVQ

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[CTV News @CTVNews]

Western University has announced they'll require booster doses and masking for the Fall semester. CP24's Shanelle Kaul reports. https://t.co/oqOFXxTrFY

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[Stockport Council @StockportMBC]

Are you and your family up-to-date with your Covid-19 vaccinations? This summer, get your doses at the Etihad centre. 💉

Open to everyone 5+, there is a child friendly area with colouring books, toys and your very own personalised bravery certificate after the vaccine.

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[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Have questions about the COVID vaccine for kids under 5? We’ve got you covered https://t.co/asig6UEHyN

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[Philippe J. Fournier @338Canada]

“Agree or disagree? I’m willing to get a booster each year, for as long as it is recommended.”

🟢62% Agree
🔴30% Disagree
⚪️8% Not sure

[Angus Reid Institute, July 13-15, 2022, n=1,583]

[Amherst Island Radio @amherstislandfm]

Breaking News!💯

The Bank of Canada is expected to increase interest rates by 0.75 basis points. It will also release a more modern set of Canadian Bills that better reflect newly emerging Canadian values #winning

#Canada @bankofcanada #Bank #Money #interestrates #ygk #ifb #ff

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[Devon McDonald @McDevonMD]

What a great location for a vaccine clinic for children too young to reliably mask: a large covered deck with plenty of natural ventilation.

Think we'll do something so sensible, based on how this virus is transmitted, here in Ontario?

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[CTV News @CTVNews]

Being with unvaccinated people increases COVID-19 risk for those who are vaccinated, study finds https://t.co/DxQAFxZvSs

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[Pat Rich @pat_health]

Unvaccinated people have disproportionate impact on spreading COVID when mixing with vaccinated people - new study : ⁦@DFisman⁩ et al in ⁦@CMAJ⁩ https://t.co/ZLCJS8WHo1

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[Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter]

Whither “mix-and-match” for 2nd booster? After 3 Pfizers, I saw it as a toss-up, pitting fact that I tolerated Pfizer well vs. marginal efficacy advantage of Moderna & theoretical evidence of broader immunity w/mixing.

In the end, I went with Grandma Rule: “It couldn’t hurt.”

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[Metro @MetroUK]

A petting zoo full of sheep has been set up by the NHS to help keep children calm while they get vaccinated.
https://t.co/rD06BZ0LSy

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[VICE @VICE]

Most consumer-level surgical masks and KN95s leave gaps around the sides. Pantyhose could offer a solution—but there's one small catch. https://t.co/GeIryqwFyj

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[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

BREAKING: The Quebec government has dropped the idea of taxing unvaccinated people.

Other provinces are announcing they’ll remove mandates.

Amazing.

The tide is turning toward freedom.

#FreedomNotFear