𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗚𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡

Technical Copywriting / Physical Culture
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[U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics]

This was a country once.

[lusso @luusssso]

Just became a massive fan of vintage Japanese watch ads

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Instead of starting at an wall to fix your attention span, this exercise daily. It was developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration. The exercise is called the Sentence Drill.

Read one short sentence from any book, then close it and try to write the sentence down word for word from memory. Once you can do that reliably, move up to two sentences. Then three. Then a small paragraph.

The first time you try it you'll realize how loose your reading actually is. You'll get the gist, but you'll miss exact words, change "and" to "the," skip a comma, swap an order.

This exercise forces you to actually see the words, not just glide over them. Your mind has to hold the exact shape of a sentence long enough to reproduce it.

Do this once or twice a day. Within two weeks you'll feel a significant difference, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your memory, and makes you pay more attention to detail, a very rare skill nowadays.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Economist and philosopher Ralph Borsodi (1888-1977) built the homestead Dogwoods in Airmont, Rockland County, New York, in 1924, by himself and his family. He was an academic and had absolutely zero skills or experience of building anything. He started with a building a concrete platform and then built stone walls using the "Slipform" technique (building wooden formwork that he filled with cement and natural stones he gathered on the land and gradually moving the formwork upwards). Having built the walls he taught himself the rest: carpentry, roofing, heating, electricity, plumbing etc., some with the help of friends he considered at best "semi-skilled". He admitted that while not doing anything fast or fancy, meticulously doing while learning allowed him to build a perfectly acceptable homestead, room by room, while learning many new skills and becoming fit and happy. He used machines as often and as much as he could, being especially grateful for the cement-mixer which was constantly in use. The last project on the homestead was a swimming pool his two sons built, with the same cement mixer.

[Torrey Dawley @torreydawley]

@Cernovich I want to love these things, but that Black Mirror episode is forever etched into my psyche.

[GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic]

Dude, you DO realise you can do jumping in a gym? A gym is set up to make a variety of exercises easier and more accessible. The strongest, fastest, biggest, most athletic individuals use gym. I'm all for exercising outside (not so much in your front room) but gyms are great places to train.

[Calisthenic Kyle @CalisthenicKyle]

When I say Jumping TRUMPS anything you can do in a gym…

I mean it.

You cannot name a better Exercise.

The amount of Jumping Variations are endless…

Benefits are off the charts…

Everybody has access to this Transformational Exercise at anytime/anywhere!

Freedom.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

@PointUpright A friend of mine asked a 747 pilot whether they wore pilot's watches. No, he was told, "because there's a fucking great clock in the middle of the instrument panel!"

[George Ferman @Helios_Movement]

You have to be a genuine retard to open socials and your email first thing in the morning.

You are wasting an extremely small and valuable window you get every day to learn something new and hard.

Do that for a decade, and you're cooked.

Every single day, me, you and everyone else has a limited neuroplasticity and dopamine "budget".

We have a finite daily reserve of metabolic energy, neuromodulators (epinephrine, acetylcholine, dopamine, BDNF), and cellular resources available to deploy for meaningful rewiring.

Once that budget is spent, it’s gone until the next day after rest and recovery.

Passive consumption of online content (aka doomscrolling) actively burns through that budget while delivering almost zero constructive plasticity.

You are quite literally spending your brain’s daily capacity for growth on junk data and wasting the natural peak of dopamine instead of investing it into doing something hard.

[Torrey Dawley @torreydawley]

I’ve been trying to tell you all. Longing for something you can never have is succumbing to the Death Force. This is ESPECIALLY true for fixating on the “better times” of the past.

God gave you the greatest gift of all when you woke up again this morning. Don’t spit in His face by longing for what’s already gone.

[𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗚𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡 @dannyclugston]

@lawrencekingyo V good.

Another one for older relatives is to reframe use of hiking poles from: 'the cringe-worthy 1990s nordic walking brigade', to 'ultra-light kit loads of top mountain athletes use to go further & build upper body strength'.

[Jared West @jared_western]

Incredible deep dive from @pnickdurham on Western Chemicals ecosystem and the urgency of the problems we’re solving.

Nick and the team at Shadow Ventures are some of the best thought partners I’ve ever had, more than thrilled to have them in our corner!!

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

Autonomous defense and weapons are words that are greatly misunderstood and need more explanation. No one explains Peace through Deterrence and precision through autonomy better than @anduriltech’s Chris Brose. Highly recommend this conversation on the future of defense and deterrence, and why defense innovation is so important.

[Silvia N Cickovska @SilviaNilssonC]

@AtomsNotBits This is the real future. No more vaporware actual atoms moving.

[𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗚𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡 @dannyclugston]

Cool. https://t.co/Ik0LzE4bdV

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Anti-bear spears developed by man who actually fought off and survived a bear attack. Lightweight for speed in maneuvering and double pronged to stop the bear from impaling itself and close in.
https://t.co/d3ixD98lwt

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

The more you try to force someone to believe something, the more you activate their defenses.

Because people are not empty containers waiting to be filled with correct information. People are living systems. They have histories, loyalties, fears, incentives, identities, wounds, dreams, status games, private griefs, social contexts, sacred objects, sunk costs, and an entire internal parliament of voices arguing all day long.

When you “persuade” someone, you are not installing software, you are entering an ecology.

And ecologies do not respond well to bulldozers.

[Kyle Harrison @kwharrison13]

Legitimately cannot express how much anyone facing existential dread about their career amidst AI uncertainty should read “Only The Paranoid Survive.”

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

If you want to actually change someone’s mind, you have to care about the conditions under which minds change.

Minds rarely change under humiliation. They rarely change while cornered. They rarely change while being publicly defeated. They rarely change when the change requires immediate exile from their people.

People need bridges.

[U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics]

There is a special kind of beauty in this