braggAbroad

#Tech guy, from #Devon, now abroad in #Stillorgan, #Dublin. Subjects covered include #Climate #EVs #Podcast

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

#Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿#worldcup2026

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Effing outstanding. Nice work!

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

Is it time to replace the 2025 running shoes? #asics #50at50 #running #gelkayno

[Barney Weston @ftblforfuturebw]

Waiting in the queue for oasis tickets like

Ticketmaster Wembley Heaton Park

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

10 Hills at Marsham Court #50at50 https://t.co/vdrAtCpjFP

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

Restricted week of training due to injury ends with VO2 Max at 46. #50at50

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

Big queue at upper lake car park in #Glendalough Everyone in Dublin had the same idea. #Patience

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

https://t.co/SrfBSsVYNK

[Martin Fowler @martinfowler]

I've been taking a break from work for the last few weeks, so missed much of the brouhaha over the McKinsey developer productivity article. But I'm sure that I could not write a better response than this one from @tastapod

https://t.co/3PlzZ37kgb

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

Housing is a problem for everyone, but why no govenment backed student loan system in Ireland? The high cost of accommodation is offset by lower fees compared to e.g. UK? #TUDSU #HousingCrisis https://t.co/EoC7OqVVJO

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Germany 🇩🇪 has some of most environmentally friendly trains in the world. They are powered by hydrogen and oxygen. The only waste they produce is water.

We have the solutions. Time to ditch fossil fuels & implement them.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On December 11, 2021, I picked Robert Greene up from the airport, and we drove forty-five minutes to Bastrop, TX.

At one point, Robert told me he’s had more than 20 research assistants since Ryan Holiday and none have been any good.

Why weren’t they any good? I asked.

He said,

“Some didn’t grasp the spirit of the material I look for. Some couldn’t discern what's interesting from what isn't. Some melted like an ice cube in the sun at the first piece of constructive criticism. Some...”

He paused here and thought.

As he was thinking, I understood the implication was that those first three reasons didn't really cut to the core of his troubles with research assistants.

“Without exception,” Robert realized, “they weren’t interested in boredom. It’s a dividing line between people who are successful and people who are not.”

Takeaway 1:

Mastery, Robert said, requires boredom and tedium.

It requires doing the same things over and over and over.

It requires sitting with the frustration of putting in work that doesn't immediately pay off.

It requires sitting with the uncertainty of, am I going to spend sixteen hours reading this biography only to discover there’s nothing in it I can use?

You have to be able to sit with boredom, Robert said.

Takeaway 2:

In another conversation, Robert told me he believes one of the reasons people struggle to sit with boredom is that they have a false idea about the word “creativity.”

“People have all sorts of illusions about the word that aren’t the reality,” he said.

“The reality is that creativity is a function of the previous work you put in. If you put a lot of hours into thinking and researching and reading, hour after hour—a very tedious process—creativity will come to you…It comes to you, but only after hours and hours of tedious work.”

I like this definition because it means creativity is not some mysterious form of magic. It’s something that is rewarded to those who put in hours and hours of boring, tedious work.

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“One sign that you're suited for some kind of work is when you like even the parts that other people find tedious.” — Paul Graham

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[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

When we organize, we WIN!! Great news today from Ireland 🍀 A massive fracked gas import terminal - Shannon LNG - has been REJECTED on grounds that Ireland has a ban on fracked gas imports! Thanks to grassroots campaigners & @greenparty_ie for your work. https://t.co/hHQedsIDl6

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

@jordanbpeterson So this is your motive for denying climate science @jordanbpeterson? 'Happy to debate the solutions, but not right (dangerous, irresponsible, immoral) to deny the problem?

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

@jordanbpeterson @tim_cook Not woke, but greenwashing.

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

#RulesForLife Is "clean your homescreen" the modern alternative to "clean your room"? We need to reduce our reliance on @jordanbpeterson anyway given his recent obsession with commenting on topics he knows nothing about. #ClimateScience #ClimateSummit

[Randy Clarke @wmataGM]

The irony of a car company starting a rail line to its car factory because it’s more efficient & convenient! Welcome to the past, present, future 🤷‍♂️

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

#Listen! #Podcast of the week. Was lucky to see Stephen Bartlett on stage at Dublin Tech summit #DTS in 2018. Awesome episode of excellent podcast. https://t.co/UEd7PUOyYA

[braggAbroad @braggabroad]

#Listen! #Podcast of the week - Call Jonathan Pie on #NHS https://t.co/wafPDY2QbG

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

One of the busiest bike intersections in the world, just up the street from the entrance to the biggest bike parking facility in the world. Imagine if instead of those bikes & buses, everyone was moving in cars. In Utrecht, Netherlands. HT @Sustainable2050 https://t.co/k8k1orqBWG