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[B. Miller @BlaiseInKC]

There’s some quirk in physics where, if there’s a small hole in a bag of mulch it will leak all over your vehicle.
But if you rip a giant hole in the bag and try to dump it out into your landscaping, almost none will fall out.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

The most frightening person i ever witnessed was a man who only wanted one thing. everybody around him had a hundred plans, a hundred projects they were going to start next month, and he had one, just one. and he never talked about it much, and that was the part that unnerved you, because when someone talks a lot about what they want, you can relax. talking is letting the pressure out, so it's harmless. but he was airtight.

Everything in him was moving toward one point, in silence. within a few years he was in a place no one else could reach, and everybody who had watched him stood there scattered and confused, with their mouths full of plans that never solidified into anything. i learned from watching him that the mouth is a leak. every time you say what you are going to do, you lose a piece of the will that would have done it

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

My trick to staying happy is to pretend I’m a hunter from the last Ice Age transported to our time. Suddenly the smallest things – glass windows, locks, bound books – are marvels beyond telling. The tap runs with ever-flowing water. I’m grateful not to be impaled by a boar.

[Bambulu @BambuluQ]

Tattoo this to your brain:

"The world is a malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think.”

– Marc Andreessen

[Steve @eeleser]

HOTDO NUTS
FRIEDSE AFOOD

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

I’m 54, a physicist, have spent decades using mathematics to study the universe, solve problems, and build things.

If your work touches numbers, now or in the future, and you want to learn math properly, this thread shows a from-the-ground-up math you’ll actually need:

[Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon]

Somehow it was learning how many people are fulltime employed to maintain the Golden Gate Bridge that flipped something inside of me in my understanding of the entropic force civilization has to constantly fight against. Before that moment I thought — I had not applied real conscious thought — you simply build a building or anything really and then you just … have it. After that I understood everything is constantly at the brink of being lost.

[Steve @eeleser]

@Zephyr_hg NEWS

[Steve @eeleser]

@DiamondNutsGuy oke 😌

[Steve @eeleser]

@vulturetrades 11 Flips

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

How old were you when you learned that

“8-12 reps”
Doesn’t mean pick up a weight and get somewhere between those numbers

It means

Start with a weight that you can only do 8 reps on. That you can’t get to 9 with.

And you keep hitting THAT WEIGHT week in week out until you progress. Once you can do 12 reps AT THAT WEIGHT…

Move up to a weight that you can only do 8 reps on. That you can’t get to 9 with.

I think less than 5% of lifters know this

[ordinary deal @dealbakerjones]

the older i get, the more i realize that this is everything

homes, churches, cities, water, power, courts, relationships, everything, everything must be tended with care and dedication, or it will be devoured

civilization is an act of creation, and therefore love

[Steve @eeleser]

take the dot product of your goals and your habits, and minimize the angle between

[Indigo State Of Mind⚡️ @ThirdEyeMastery]

The older I get, the more I realize:

Momentum is everything. One good day creates another. One workout leads to better eating. One hard conversation opens ten easy ones. One small win builds confidence for bigger ones. Get the ball rolling. Physics handles the rest.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

May God Bless America.

[Steve @eeleser]

@PressSec mmm, don’t like this clarification. i prefer how Lutnick described it. make it yearly, make it apply to existing visas. deal with the root of the issue, not pruning future branches
- American 🇺🇸

[Naval @naval]

The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

As a man you are cursed to become the exact size of what you hunt. Hunt pennies and your soul shrinks to copper. Hunt kingdoms and your hands grow large enough to hold crowns. This is the law: God carved your capacity from the same stone as your ambition, and He will not let you cheat the equation. The man who fights giants dies a giant. The man who fights nothing dies nothing

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I've been reflecting on the Starship program the last week and one thing has become obvious to me. SpaceX is enjoying the freedom to try and fail in a way they couldn't with Falcon 9.

Doing anything "experimental" on the Falcon 9 was risky because it was SpaceX's only source of income, it was their lifeline, their work horse. Making any tweaks to the Falcon 9 to try and land a booster back in the day was a delicate balance. Don't push the envelope too hard because it could lead to a failure of the primary mission (which did happen twice).

When SpaceX first landed a booster almost 10 years ago, they were fairly slow to refly and those first non "block 5" boosters were only capable of a couple of re-flights. This gave pause to some in the industry / community fearing all this reusability hype wasn't going to pan out.

But SpaceX learned from every landing attempt to develop their Block 5 Falcon 9 which has now gone on to have a single booster fly 30 missions. Absolutely unheard of.

Now imagine if SpaceX could've had the freedom to not worry about flying customer payloads to get data during Falcon 9's reusability campaign. Imagine if they could've tested engine out procedures or push booster reentry profiles, or try hot staging, or what have you.

This is the phase that SpaceX is in now during the Starship program. I know we hear the talking point of "today's payload is data" and it could seem like a gimmick or excuse even, but that's a freedom almost no rocket program has had before. To know you can just try things out, fly real life hardware, without bankrupting the company, is the ultimate development platform.

To be able to push engine out capabilities, remove heat shield tiles on purpose, test reentry profiles, have failures, have set backs, discover flaws, learn operations.

When people say things like "Starship hasn't even reached orbit yet" are completely missing the point. They're not just trying to reach orbit, they're trying to do something that's never been done, build a rapidly reusable rocket. A rocket that can land and refly. This has never been done before and honestly it's silly to think you COULD do something like this without trying some extreme things. That's what we're seeing today, and that's extremely exciting to me.

I can't wait to see version 3 of Starship fly because they've learned so many lessons already and they have a factory capable of making rockets at scale, and we just get to sit back and watch the cook. It's an exciting time to be alive.