Shannon B

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@RickSteves Loved staying there. It's a true gem.

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@JesseTayRiver We are just going to jump this safety device and you'll be good to go.

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@hbulwark1 In 4 short years he met his every goal. He seized the whole Southwest from Mexico. Made sure the tariffs fell
And made the English sell the Oregon Territory. He built an independent treasury.

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

A live look at the incredible sacrifices being made to support our country.

Clifton family following daughter's record-long deployment aboard USS Lincoln amid Iran War https://t.co/qxe9n5FaoQ via @IdahoStateJ

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@Camp4 Hell yeah, you got it! Think of all the street cred you got with that gnarly scar.

[WellBuiltStyle @WellBuiltStyle]

Be more like Teddy Roosevelt.

Embrace The Strenuous Life.

Taken from Discipline is Destiny (affiliate link): https://t.co/vx4oQWgpnY

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@HistorylandHQ This happens all the time in the mountain roads of Romania. Lots of roadside stands selling cheese and sausages. They love their picnics.

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@WhosJFK Great video! It's amazing that it's here in Philadelphia.

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

Love this common waiter interaction in Bucharest, Romania where tipping culture is half of US levels (10% is a good tip). They will almost ignore you and barely talk to you the whole meal. Then when they give you the check they lay on the charm and start chatting you up/smiling.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Whatever you believe, you’re right.

Not just because thoughts and words inform behavior. There’s more happening at an energetic level than we understand.

There’s zero benefit to negativity or dwelling on problems.

Put the past behind you, block out the noise, and:

+Do positive things
+Say positive words
+Be a relentless encourager
+Surround yourself with positive people

Aim for a 7-to-1 positive-to-negative ratio on what you consume, what you think, and the energy you put out.

You’ll be shocked at how quickly your world transforms.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Nobody on their deathbed says, “I should have spent more time in the office.”

At some point, you have to ask yourself:

What am I optimizing for?

Having spent 19 years in an office and 12 working from home, here’s the truth:

He’s probably right that if you’re solely optimizing for work productivity, commuting to an office every day is better.

By how much is highly debatable because a lot of wasted time and inefficiency happens in offices. It probably varies widely by person, but as a creative type, I find offices soul-crushing. I’m far less productive there.

If you’re like me and you aspire for more than just a great career, then working from home is the #2 unlock. (#1 is a stay-at-home spouse. If you have both, it’s a 10X multiplier.)

The life I want to live simply isn’t possible if I’m sitting in an office (or in traffic) most of the day. I’ll take a small productivity hit (and less money!) in exchange for:

1) Unhurried mornings.

2) Zero time sitting in traffic.

3) Little 5-minute interactions with the family throughout the day. (I call them “in-between moments” and they compound massively.)

4) Wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

5) Exercise and outdoor time when there’s a break in the action. (For me, it’s *part of* the work.)

6) Being able to eat healthy.

Final thought:

Be careful who you emulate… because you just might pull it off.

Before you take someone’s advice, make sure you inspect their *whole* life, not just their career. Ask yourself, “Is this what I want?”

P.S. There are seasons to life and there’s a season to put your head down and grind to get ahead. But seasons have an end—do it as a means to get to that end.

[Moses Kagan @moseskagan]

My grandmother, Luba, lost her first child and first husband to the Nazis.

She re-married, gave birth to my father in a refugee camp, then moved with him to another country, where her second husband (my grandfather) died of a beating he had received from Nazis.

Then she re-married again and moved my father to yet another country, where he flourished and, eventually, built a family of his own.

I feel confident in saying that nothing any of us goes through comes close to that, and yet, at the end of her life, she was filled to the brim with love for my brother and me, the grandsons her perseverance made possible.

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@scottastronaut That is incredible.

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@JesseTayRiver I have never heard of an alternate definition of load bearing except for walls. Whole different world over there.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Eli Lilly has done it.

They've gone and made what seems to be a powerful, permanent gene therapy for LDL cholesterol.

That means they'll be able to effectively prevent most heart disease with a single infusion!

[Mads @europemaxxed]

The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you're not careful it's too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.
- Norm Macdonald

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

@Austen Once, I got an amber alert at 1am and was startled awake. And.. that was the very last alert I received.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

I don't think it's permeated the public consciousness yet, but Ukraine is already using fully autonomous drones. The operator just tells the drone where to find targets, it flies several miles, finds a target, and kills it. Human soldiers just die against these autonomous drones.

[Shannon B @calikayaker]

For 20,000 stranded sailors, the Persian Gulf has become a vast nautical prison, where days are spent dodging drones, rationing food and playing mahjong https://t.co/i6gJAhAx4D via @WSJ

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Newly released video footage from the splashdown of NASA’s Artemis ll in the Eastern Pacific on Friday, April 10, 2026, shows the moment that U.S. Navy Divers cracked the door open and entered the Orion to greet the Astronauts, welcoming them back to Earth after their journey around the Moon.