mateo

someday we'll learn again how to train on this living place, and holding still will be like flying. or something.

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

watching avatar in spanish to practice, so if you ask me anything i WON’T be able to answer but i WILL be able to tell you about how todo cambió cuando la nación del fuego atacó. solo el avatar, maestro de los cuatro elementos, podía detenerlos. pero cuando el mundo más lo necesi

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

@benburkeen the science is finally catching up with what we’ve known all along

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

@LenaOshinskie Let’s gooooo 🙌

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

grief is like being hit by the bene gesserit voice, except instead of being thrown to the ground in submission, you’re just like ugly sobbing picking out toothpaste in a cvs

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

"But here, now-the landscape slipping past your windows, the lyrics folding into the music, you seeing yourself singing, and singing loud — you are happy, you are weeping, you are moving fast."

did you (you!) know that this exists? and it's good?

https://t.co/lmHEQy4t9X

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

the relief you feel when you’re so enraged at something and then remember that you haven’t eaten a real meal in 48 hours. that probably has something to do with it

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

being the only native english speaker in a group of people speaking english is a great time, it’s like everyone’s playing a never-ending game of charades with you all at the same time

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

@julesdotbiz i miss crunch

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

@julesdotbiz yeah i think the "optimize for aliveness" i co-opted is really for people who do find value in the word optimize. if you don't, i think "choose things that make you feel alive" or "gravitate towards aliveness" capture the same thing without the baggage of the word optimize

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

if it doesn't get you high, it's not worth doing

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

but also, there's more than one way to solve for the this:
1) (the obvious) if it's not getting me high, i should find something else that does
2) (the alternative) if it's not getting me high, how can i change my relationship to it so it's now worth doing?

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

don't squint too hard on this one. "optimize for aliveness" is probably the more precise way of capturing this

https://t.co/YXhywSDEHO

[Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller]

"The way to live the most meaningful life isn’t to optimize for leverage and impact. It’s actually to choose and optimize for your aliveness." 💯⚡

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

@julesdotbiz i’ll have my people reach out to your people

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

on this anniversary of texas independence i would like to confess that it took moving to mexico for me to realize that maybe everything i learned about texas independence from a middle school football coach in 8th grade texas history was uh maybe not right

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

@Kothbro this is a good counterpoint

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

had a fantastic ap euro teacher in hs who always used to say “history is written by the victors” — didn’t think too hard about where to apply this, after saying a daily pledge of allegiance to the texas flag everyday for 13 years lol

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

i watched i, robot way too many times as a kid in the backseat of a chevy suburban to be playing around with bing right now

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

phoebe super bowl halftime when

[mateo @captgoobsquad]

@andycloyd @joerogan @jordanbpeterson what’s one that particularly stood out?