Kevin Connelly

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦Proud dad.
🛜🛠️Working man.
🏋🏻‍♂️📖 Into Jiu-Jitsu, Kettlebells, & Books.

[BONESAW 🕊️ @BonesawMD]

Younger parents tend to ask my parents for advice.

I've condensed some key points over the years.

Run these psyops on your children:

- You are gifted intellectually
- You can unlock your supreme athleticism.
- Work diligently on skills and education that nobody can take away from you. That is the secret to everlasting confidence.

- You are the type of person who can achieve whatever you want when you discipline yourself to work for it – It does not just happen.

- You have an unending capacity to work, you are not lazy.
- You set your standard. Others are to fit in with you.
- Never worry about making friends, once you truly get comfortable being alone, people are drawn to you.

- Everything is a skill. You can learn anything; anything becomes more interesting the more you learn about it.
- Whatever you're interested in, be excellent in your chosen path. You will be supported.

- Genius is a state accessible to you.

- Nobody has the right to disrespect you, even at your young age. In any room you find yourself in, you have valuable contributions. They have inherent valuable because the words come through someone like you.

- Do not shrink yourself. You deserve to take up space.

- You can come to me for anything, even if you think I'll be upset – which I might be. But with me, you can unburden your conscience with the truth. I'm with you always.

I will always be the fortress that supports you until my dying days; and when I'm gone, gaze upon the spread of the heavens.

Know that I support you still.

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

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[Sue @suekhim]

AI is making kids dumber.

It should be making them geniuses.

Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think. 👇

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

@suekhim what's the earliest age a student can start?

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

@nntaleb i salute you

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@sway_matt @JDubMann @Eric_Schmitt here for this

didn't they spend the winter preparring in Harper's Ferry?

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

The “bike-shed” effect, originally described by C. Northcote Parkinson.

To illustrate this phenomenon, let’s compare a conversation about building a nuclear power plant with building a bike shed.

Most people rightly assume that they know nothing about something as complex as a nuclear power plant and so won’t voice an opinion. Most people wrongly assume, however, that they know something about building a bike shed and will argue until the cows come home about every detail down to paint color.

Everyone you meet (every male, at least) will have a strong opinion about how you should train and eat. For the next two to four weeks, cultivate selective ignorance and refuse to have bike-shed discussions with others.

Friends, foes, colleagues, and well-intentioned folks of all stripes will offer distracting and counterproductive additions and alternatives.

Nod, thank them kindly, and step away to do what you’ve planned. Nothing more and nothing different.

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

10 books to fall in love with engineering:

1) The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

Screen time: Inversely proportional to daily satisfaction.

Good week.

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

List of books mentioned in @EricJorgenson's @TheNavalmanack, according to Gemini:

Nonfiction

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley

The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley

Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb

The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Taleb

The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

Antifragile by Nassim Taleb

Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb

Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Richard Feynman

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality by Lewis Carroll Epstein

The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger

Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

The Compleat Strategyst by J.D. Williams

The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod

Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin

Principles by Ray Dalio

The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

Philosophy & Spirituality

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Total Freedom by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Tao of Seneca

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The Book of Secrets by Osho

The Great Challenge by Osho

The Way to Love by Anthony de Mello

The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

Striking Thoughts by Bruce Lee

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Theory of Everything (Dreamstate Trilogy) by Jed McKenna

Jed Talks #1 and #2 by Jed McKenna

Atmamun, Direct Truth, and A Master’s Secret Whispers by Kapil Gupta

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant

Fiction & Science Fiction

Ficciones and Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

God’s Debris by Scott Adams

The Iliad by Homer

Graphic Novels & Comics

Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis

The Boys by Garth Ennis

Planetary by Warren Ellis

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Dilbert by Scott Adams

Note: @naval also mentions reading the "originals" and foundational texts by authors such as Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Ralph Waldo Emerson .

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

@Neutrallens65 the longer i do jiu-jitsu, the more i respect judo

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@sentientist confirmed

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@EricJorgenson @elonmusk @nntaleb 🫡

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

Just finished @EricJorgenson’s “The Book of @elonmusk”.

My main takeaway: this is what, as @nntaleb calls it, “soul in the game” looks like.

Solid read. Leaves me optimistic and motivated for the future.

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

Tested over head press (single arm), pull up, pistol squat, and 400m run today.

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https://t.co/UKf81B7EDd

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The best.

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If I meet an untimely demise I just want my son to know I haven’t pulled guard since purple belt.

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Toddler sleep positions on another level

[Kevin Connelly @_KevinConnelly]

Sign of a good week.

[Wayne Waldrop @WayneWaldropW]

Daily reminder that this man was in the Epstein files explicitly for not being corruptable.