2nd life 44

🙏I add nature images for balance
🙏Mother of 2 & Oma/grandma of 5
🙏 Grateful 4 these amazing times of hypernovelty
🙏 WWG2WGA
🙏 Be blessed🙏

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

We dreamed the impossible
which became the probable
moving thru the necessary
it became the obvious and
eventually the effortless

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

@dcopechatter

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

CHA-CHA-CHA-CHANGES.

"Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years.

"This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor."

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

@wyatttoday What a cool idea!

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

@23am_pulikesi Yep. For sure.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

@AwakenedOutlaw Bless you.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

@brianmaierhofer Seems like a curveball we throw to ourselves before incarnating again. Tough one.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

Yep.

[Jeffrey Cox @Jeffrey28627067]

@chris_kratovil Eh, the simple reality is that we replaced 24/7 shopping with 24/7 shopping *online* delivered to our house the next day. There simply isn't enough in person demand to justify it anymore.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Whoever said ‘out of sight, out of mind’ never had a spider disappear inside their tent.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

Brilliantly simple.

[AlphaFox @alphafox]

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best:

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

@PeterDiamandis The universe is built on solutions, not on problems.

The problems only show up to point to the already existing solution.

Put in another way: answers exist BEFORE there are questions.

The questions are there to uncover the already existing answers.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

Hmm.

[Maila Maria Rosa @MailaMariaRosaa]

Worth noting that since Donald Trump & Marco Rubio shut the USAID program down not a single country in Latin America has voted for a Leftist leader again.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

Reminder.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

@shagbark_hick It's called PTSD. It takes some time to heal. But you are well on your way.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

🤣🤣🤣

[Charles de Batz de Castelmore - Conte d'Artagnan @conteDartagnan]

Fermi tutti

[Bruce @bruce_barrett]

I don’t want to hear about my carbon footprint ever again.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

@holonabove Who does your impressive graphics?

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

The next Congress WILL NOT have...

Al Green
Jasmine Crockett
Dan Crenshaw
Eric Swalwell
Mitch McConnell
Nancy Pelosi
Don Bacon
Jerry Nadler
Bill Cassidy
Thomas Massie
John Cornyn

It's called draining the swamp.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

President Trump is such a good cook!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! President Trump is on the verge of making HISTORY, set to draw in Muslim countries to the Abraham Peace Accords as part of the Iran deal

Trump isn't only angling to DEFEAT the Iranian nuclear threat once and for all

He wants to go for gold and FIX the Middle East forever 🇺🇸

Let him cook!

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

The salient points.

"When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down.

"When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

"You do not need to do creative work while walking.

"You need to walk BEFORE the creative work.

"The brain holds the state."

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Stanford psychologist spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting, and the experiment she designed to kill every alternative explanation is one of the most decisive findings in modern psychology.

Her name is Marily Oppezzo.

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

The result was almost too clean to publish.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves.

On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision.

She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

This is the part of the study that hit hardest when I read it the first time.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it.

Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes.

The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

The history of this is the part that should haunt anyone who still does meetings in chairs.

Charles Darwin built a gravel loop behind his house in Kent called the Sandwalk and walked it 3 times a day for the rest of his life. The theory of evolution was developed one lap at a time on that path.

Nietzsche walked up to 10 hours a day during the years he wrote his most important books and openly said the work was conceived on his feet.

Beethoven composed for the morning and walked for 5 hours every afternoon with a pencil in his pocket for when something landed.

Kahneman said the best thinking of his Nobel Prize-winning career happened on leisurely walks with Amos Tversky. Steve Jobs refused to take important conversations sitting down. He held them on foot.

Every one of them was using the system Oppezzo would not measure until 2014. They just did not know what to call it.

The question worth sitting with is the one almost nobody asks.

Every meeting you have ever attended sitting around a table was a meeting held at a fraction of the brain power that was actually available to the people in the room. Every brainstorm that got stuck inside a conference room. Every problem you tried to solve at a desk and gave up on. Every idea you could not quite get to.

The intervention is the easiest one in modern science. No supplement. No app. No subscription. No training program. Just a pair of legs and 15 minutes.

The Stanford lab proved it. The philosophers knew it. The neuroscience explains it.

And almost everyone reading this is still trying to think their way out of problems sitting completely still.

[2nd life 44 @agooddying]

Now that makes sense.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

If businesses only have to pay taxes on profit, not revenue, then families should only have to pay taxes after all their bills have been paid.