Aaron Smith

Working on complex problems

[Iddo Moed @MoedIddo]

Raising flags during Israel’s 76th Independence Day at Ottawa’s City Hall.
Thank you Mayor @_MarkSutcliffe for your leadership and friendship

[Aaron Smith @aaronssmith]

@jonkay https://t.co/Ta9VSLmWCN

[Compounding Quality @QCompounding]

7 Book visuals you should know

1. Atomic Habits: The Four Ways Of Behaviour Change

[⚡️🌞 Sol Brah 🌞🐬 @SolBrah]

Carlos Gracie was the grandfather of Brazilian JiuJitsu - an extraordinary man that created a legacy

He lived by twelve commandments:

1. To be so secure that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

2. To speak to all of happiness, health and prosperity.

3. To let your friends know that you value them.

4. To look at the bright side and turn your optimism into your reality.

5. To think only the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.

6. To be as fair and as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are of your own.

7. To forget about past mistakes, and focus your energy on the achievements of the future.

8. To always make those around you happy, and smile when someone is talking to you.

9. To spend most of your time on self-improvement, and no time criticizing others.

10. To be too complete to feel anxious, too noble to be angry, too happy to feel frustrated, and too strong to be fearful.

11. To have a good opinion of yourself, and proclaim it to the world. Not with loud words, but with good works.

12. To strongly believe that the world is on your side, as long as you stay loyal to your best self.

Carlos would have 21 children and they would go on to teach the legacy of their father to grow Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu into the martial art it is today.

[Hon. Marco Mendicino @marcomendicino]

The failure of the UN Resolution to meet these pre-condtions make it unsupportable and unacceptable to me as the Member of Parliament for Eglinton-Lawrence.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Novak Djokovic's entire interview on 60 Minutes is excellent — but this clip of him talking about developing mental toughness is especially great.

“Even though there is no physical contact in tennis, there’s still a lot of eye contact”

[StandWithUs @StandWithUs]

⚠️Content Warning: Graphic Descriptions of Sexual Assault⚠️
Evidence abounds of the sexual atrocities carried out by #Hamas terrorists targeting Israeli women and girls.
Many of these victims have been forever silenced because Hamas murdered them.
Let us be their voice.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Andy Weir's short story, The Egg, is one of the most mind-blowing things you will ever read.

Do yourself a favor and find 10 minutes to enjoy it.

(bookmark this for later)

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

RIP Charlie Munger

I'll always remember him for this talk he gave on the Psychology of Human Misjudgement.

If you have an hour, it's well worth the time:

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

Dear Hamas, let me explain to you how grave your massacre of 1200 Israelis has been. Even if you wrap your leaders Muhammad Deif and Yehia Sinwar with a UN clothing, put then inside a Red Cross car, park the car inside of a kindergarten for kids with chronic diseases inside a hospital, surround the hospital with the sick, the wounded, the refugees, and the dead, have Al-Jazeera shout all day and night, NYT question humanity, Greta invoke climate change, and Tlaib raise hell across America, Deif and Sinwar will not get away. Israel will get them.
That’s just my impression.

[SickKids Foundation @sickkids]

Join us in congratulating one of our longest standing partners, @EYCanada employees on being named our donor of the week! For more than 30 years, EY employees have helped SickKids reach a number of milestones, to the betterment children's health. 💙 https://t.co/FNpqt4qqDV

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

Israel told you Hamas burned babies alive on October 7th, but you refused to believe it. Now international journalists have confirmed seeing the evidence.

Israel told you the Al-Ahli hospital attack on October 17th was caused by a Palestinian rocket, and you refused to believe it, again. A week later German, British, and US intelligence have confirmed it.

Israel told you Hamas is using Shifa hospital as a terror hub, but you refused to believe it. Today, US intelligence has confirmed that too.

Israel told you Hamas is a threat to Israeli and Palestinian civilians and to peace. But you refuse to believe it and call on Israel to ceasefire.

What needs to happen for you to wake up?

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

Hamas is committing crimes against humanity.
If you think otherwise, think again.

Is it legal in times of war to…

- Embed rockets and terrorist infrastructure within civilian areas?
- Steal humanitarian aid from innocent civilians for their terrorist goals?
- Abduct and confine 239 hostages?

For the full list of Hamas’ war crimes, click here:

https://t.co/D0IRmTpjbs

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Hundreds of Arab anti-Israel protesters traveled to a Jewish neighborhood in Melbourne, Australia to intimidate the local Jews.

A synagogue had to be evacuated after protesters started gathering outside

Soon, Jews were spat on & physically attacked

🇦🇺🇮🇱

[Scirex @scirex]

@fasc1nate In 1995, U.S. and Canadian wildlife officials released 14 wolves in Yellowstone National Park. No one expected the miracle that the wolves would bring.

[Iddo Moed @MoedIddo]

A Nova music festival massacre survivor tells her miraculous story #HamasMassacres

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

“In the name of Islam and religion you kill a Muslim woman who wears a Hijab and prays?

You kill a mother of 9 children?”

Hamu Abu Arar was stopped at an intersection when Hamas terrorists fired at his car and murdered his wife.

His family is one of many ripped apart on October 7.

Watch:

[Rabbi Shmuel Reichman @ShmuelReichman]

This is the best interview I have EVER seen.

Ever; ever; ever; nothing comes close.

Douglas Murrey has a heart – and mind – of gold.

And what unfolds in this seven-minute clip is something you need to watch for yourself. (Once you see it halfway through, you’ll know exactly what I’m referring to.)

But he articulates something which I have been trying to share for the past month:

The Nazis, as fundamentally evil as they were, believed that they were engaging in a necessary evil for an ultimate good; they still had a spark of humanity at their core; thus, their main flaw was that they believed the ends justified the means; even though they fully believed in the “result” of a world without Jews, they were still fundamentally opposed to the “actions” they were taking.

This is what motivated the Nazis to find ways of circumventing the existential moral decay they were entering, and allowed them to get creative by using the gas chambers, mass shootings (in the BACK of the head – to avoid direct facial contact), and other passive forms of mass annihilation, while also having as few Nazis as possible actually involved in these acts of murder; they then encouraged those individuals who were involved in this atrocity of mass murder to get drunk every night in order to wash away the person they started seeing in the mirror.

Thus, the existential decay of these individual Nazis actively involved in the mass murder of the Jewish People was simply seen as another layer of “the ends justify the means.”

They were the epitome of “Western” evil.

Hamas is the exact opposite.

This IS their value system.

They prize death, murder, rape, suicide missions, and everything that opposes the very foundation of values and truth to begin with.

The events of October 7th was not an end to a means… there is no future goal… this IS the goal.

They are the epitome of an evil the likes of which we have never before seen.

Please – I know this is social media and some people only watch 60-second soundbites; but please, please, please watch this brilliant interview.

Douglas Murray – you are a credit to everything worth being credited.

[Irwin Cotler @IrwinCotler]

Unanimous Parliament motion condemning Hamas terrorist atrocities & calling for immediate & unconditional release of all hostages regardless of nationality.

An important & unequivocal moral stand. Next step: Canada leads intl coalition for hostages & sanctions those responsible.