Brandon Bingham

Author, Carpenter, Pilot.

[Brandon Bingham @BingLogigoal]

Daily Stoic Giveaway #giveaway #win https://t.co/iBCe6MeUhQ

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.

[Balaji @balajis]

FROM MAGA TO CHINA
Here are four things MAGA is getting wrong, and why it's handing over the world to China.

(1) First, MAGA correctly understands that America’s economic position is in decline but thinks this is due to economic competition itself, rather than lack of competitiveness.

(2) Second, MAGA also understands that the US has wasted trillions abroad in foreign wars, but thinks the problem is global leadership itself rather than poor leadership.

(3) Third, MAGA knows that their Blue American enemies have allies abroad, but has incorrectly overreacted to this by treating every non-Red-American as an enemy.

(4) Fourth, MAGA sees the billions of dollars flowing from the US to foreign recipients, but isn't grasping that the US can only print those dollars in the first place so long as it's the hub of a global empire.

When you put these together you can both understand MAGA's actions and understand why they will not lead to the intended result.

Basically: MAGA is hyperfocused on cutting off any apparent flow of funds from Red Americans to Blue Americans and non-Americans. And they only have ~500 days in power. So they're trying to quickly shut off imports, close down institutions, and exit all wars.

OK.

Except the reason the imports exist in the first place is because US products aren't competitive relative to Chinese products (or Fed printing). The reason those institutions exist is because the US set them up to run the world. And the reason those wars are happening is not because of American leadership per se, but because of the absence of good leadership.

If you shut all of that down at once — if you abandon global competition and global leadership — you shut down American Empire, and with it the ability to print money. And then everyone in that empire has a very bad time.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Minimizing bureaucracy should be supported by everyone. It's obvious.

It's depressing to see how much inefficiency there is in government, the very system that has an opportunity and responsibility to help a lot of people at scale.

Everything should be made digital (fast, easy, accessible), transparent (no waste/corruption), and all processes made as simple as possible.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

Service isn’t limited to saving lives or the environment. If you are a musician and put a smile on the faces of thousands or millions, I view that as service. If you are a mentor and change the life of one child for the better, the world has been improved. Service is an attitude. Find the cause or vehicle that interests you most and make no apologies.

[Brandon Bingham @BingLogigoal]

Saying ADHD is a super power if you learn to control it, is the same as saying cocaine is a super power if you could just learn how to control it.

[Brandon Bingham @BingLogigoal]

We need an audio only version of TikTok. I want to listen to snippets of podcast and drama stories but I also want to clean my kitchen at the same time.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

I look forward to the peaceful transfer of power.

Democrats told us for years they know how to lose an election the right way, and I'm expecting to be impressed.

[Naval @naval]

If you have to do it, it’s work. If you want to do it, it’s play.

[Brandon Bingham @BingLogigoal]

It’s funny to think that Friends inspired a whole generation of parents to sing “Baby Got Back” to their babies just to see if they’d laugh.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The problem is not people being uneducated.
The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

[Brandon Bingham @BingLogigoal]

Before having a baby, I never would have known how okay I am sitting around vomit all day long.

[mark normand @marknorm]

Politics has become sports, both candidates are like football players. Trump has sexual assault charges & his own shoe line. And when Kamala talks, I think she has CTE

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I would love to do a podcast with @KamalaHarris and other leading voices in the Democratic party including:
- @GovTimWalz
- @BarackObama
- @HillaryClinton
- @BernieSanders
- @AOC

I think we can have amazing conversations!

I don't do gotcha-journalism, just a good-faith chat about life, philosophy, and ideas that hopefully helps reveal our common humanity.

It'll be fun, and great for everyone! ❤

DM's are open! 🙏

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

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[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Disinformation is indeed rampant online, but the antidote to it isn't censorship.

The antidote is teaching and promoting critical thinking skills at a deep societal level.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

RFK Jr: “There still has to be a reckoning” for Covid

“The mainstream media hasn’t caught up with the science, but the science is out there now and it’s devastating.”

“Yesterday, the chief attorney for FDA admitted, because he lost a case in court against a doctor, that there was no reason to discourage people from taking Ivermectin.

Ivermectin was a very devastating cure for Covid. It literally obliterated Covid.

By depriving people of Ivermectin, millions of people around the globe died.

There were cures for Covid from day one … but they didn’t want that, they wanted the vaccine only.

There’s a little-known federal rule that they were all aware of which said that you cannot issue an emergency use authorization for a vaccine if there is an existing remedy that has already been approved for any use.

If they admitted that any of them were effective, the whole vaccine project would have fallen apart.

They gave people a product that was not properly tested.

Now, we have a whole generation of kids that got myocarditis, these terrible heart problems in young athletic boys.

You’re seeing so many kids now drop dead on playing fields. We never saw anything like this before.

The average, I think, was 29 a month globally athletes who died on the field, and we’re getting to hundreds a month now.”

From the Limitless Expo

[Brandon Sanderson @BrandSanderson]

We are 100 days away from the release of Wind and Truth, book five of The Stormlight Archive! @torbooks
#StormlightArchive #WindandTruth