Eva Basilion

Bearing witness. Fascinated by evolution and time. Everything but moderation. Beauty is virtue. All I want to do is live in a village in Greece.

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Thought I’d dip my toe back in the water.

Baby steps.

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As a child, I was a piano prodigy. I entered my first piano completion at age 6. Bela Bartok. By 18, I was burnt out. I have barely touched the piano since.

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@PaulSkallas Just look at the sky wherever you are.

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@TheGhoulestMom That’s why they renamed it.

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@nntaleb The more moral you become, the higher your standards and the less you are able to suffer fools, to put it mildly.

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@Mr_Mooshhhh Oh yeah!

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If you feel sharper on cigarettes but don’t want to die, just do the Nicorette gum.

[Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

New: Joe Rogan leaves legendary drummer Tommy Lee speechless when he breaks down why smoking cigarettes actually has health benefits and isn’t that bad for you:

ROGAN: “Only a small percentage of cigarette smokers get lung cancer.”

LEE: “I did one of those body scans and they told me after all these years of smoking that my lungs are fine. So I’m back on cigarettes, there’s no reason to quit.”

ROGAN: “People that eat a lot of olive oil seem to have no problem with cigarettes. They did a study on this.”

LEE: “There’s something about nicotine that’s apparently really good at preventing you from getting certain viruses too.”

ROGAN: “I heard that too. They’re also really good for cognitive function.

Stephen King said when he stopped smoking cigarettes it negatively affected his writing. He said his synapses just didn’t fire as fast anymore.”

LEE: “Woah, that’s wild.”

ROGAN: “A lot of creative people swear by cigarettes. I really think there’s a cognitive benefit to them.”

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@Mr_Mooshhhh Didn’t know that.

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@jmibullfrog Great point.

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@MannyTZ I know! I think he even lived there.

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Good reason not to smoke. It makes you ugly.

[Joe Rogan Recaps @JoeRoganRecaps]

New: Joe Rogan leaves legendary drummer Tommy Lee speechless when he breaks down why smoking cigarettes actually has health benefits and isn’t that bad for you:

ROGAN: “Only a small percentage of cigarette smokers get lung cancer.”

LEE: “I did one of those body scans and they told me after all these years of smoking that my lungs are fine. So I’m back on cigarettes, there’s no reason to quit.”

ROGAN: “People that eat a lot of olive oil seem to have no problem with cigarettes. They did a study on this.”

LEE: “There’s something about nicotine that’s apparently really good at preventing you from getting certain viruses too.”

ROGAN: “I heard that too. They’re also really good for cognitive function.

Stephen King said when he stopped smoking cigarettes it negatively affected his writing. He said his synapses just didn’t fire as fast anymore.”

LEE: “Woah, that’s wild.”

ROGAN: “A lot of creative people swear by cigarettes. I really think there’s a cognitive benefit to them.”

[Eva Basilion @EBasilion]

In other words, ruthless.

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

Steve Jobs was a terrible person. Kevin O'Leary hated him.

Kevin O'Leary worked with him in the early 90s making educational software. He'll tell you that directly.

"Not a nice guy. Not a nice guy."

Jobs would stand in a room full of people and say: "I don't give a shit what the students want or the parents think or anybody thinks. It's what I want. They don't know what they want till I tell them what they want."

Kevin pushed back. "Steve, you sound like such an asshole."

Jobs didn't blink.

"Now, are you making money with me? Am I your fastest growing OEM? Have we not been wildly successful and continue to be?"

Kevin admitted he was right.

"Then fucking shut up and do what I say."

Kevin understood later: Jobs wasn't just being difficult. He was operating on a completely different signal-to-noise ratio than everyone else in the room.

His definition of signal was ruthlessly narrow: the three to five things you must get done in the next 18 hours. Not next week. Not next month. Not next year. Just today.

Everything else, every meeting, every opinion, every distraction — was noise to be eliminated.

Jobs ran at 80/20. Eighty percent signal. Twenty percent noise.

Kevin knew this firsthand. Jobs would email him at 2:30 in the morning. No texts back then. Just an email sitting in your inbox at 2:30am, expecting a reply.

"He was right. He was right."

The only person Kevin has ever seen run a higher ratio? Elon Musk.

"He has no noise. He does not deal with noise. He is 100% signal — 60 seconds of every minute, 60 minutes of every hour, the 18 hours he's awake. It's all signal."

Media: Aspire

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@RealKathreptis @ArgirosKonstant That checks.

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@ishirubi Love the bottoms up.

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@RealKathreptis I know. It hurts.

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@RealKathreptis Good God right?

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@RealKathreptis Aren’t you all suffering in New Jersey too?

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@jmibullfrog Medium.

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@AdrianNF8173 That’s not an issue. We’ve lost power.

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@StillMadGreek @hakeemjeffries @MelatKirosCO I believe you.

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@ishirubi @maintcraft Thanks for this. Reminds me of the movie Pi. @TheWhackyPaki