John Rockwell

Trading • Investing • Fitness • Macroeconomics VHCM-2023

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Livin’ the dream😉 @SatoshiAtak

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Back to shitty @SpiritAirlines
Flights delayed an hour and still have to wait at the gate. Faggots.

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Charlie Munger:

Don’t be surprised when you lose to people like this

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@luhblix Started balding and couldn’t handle it

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Salvador Dalí painted some of the trippiest art ever.

His surrealist work expressed the unconscious mind (eg. the iconic 1931 “Persistence of Memory”).

To tap this creative space, Dalí frequently used a micro-nap technique called “slumber with a key”

In his words:

1️⃣ “You must seat yourself in a bony armchair, preferably of Spanish style, with your head tilted back and resting on the stretched leather back.”

2️⃣ “Your two hands must hang beyond the arms of the chair, to which your own must be soldered in a supineness of complete relaxation.”

3️⃣ “In this posture, you must hold a heavy key which you will keep suspended, delicately pressed between the extremities of the thumb and forefinger of your left hand.”

4️⃣ “Under the key, you will previously have placed a plate upside down on the floor.”

5️⃣ “The moment the key drops from your fingers, you may be sure that the noise of its fall on the upside down plate will awaken you.”

Dali wanted to achieve a state of “sleeping without sleeping”, which he said was the”most appropriate to the art of painting.”

In scientific terms, Dalí was trying to get to hypnagogia (a transition state between wakefulness and sleep, where individuals can experience unusual sensory perceptions or hallucinations).

While in hypnagogia, the judgy conscious mind takes a back seat. And the semi-conscious mind is able to make new insights and connections that might otherwise *not* have been made.

Back to the “Persistence of Memory” painting: Dali said the inspiration for the melting clocks was the image of melting camembert cheese. But late in life, Dalí also credited Albert Einstein’s theories on space and time as another creative input.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Einstein was also a practitioner of micro-naps while sitting in a chair. But instead of “slumber with a key”, Einstein did “slumber with a spoon.”

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@barstoolsports Greatest defense ever, shut down the league.

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@iUsedToBeADuck CEO of north China university

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@kingofhe4rts @clownworld Having one woman is too close to having none

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Don’t let your vision be corrupted

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@TheRadoff @Liqvidity @clownworld She’s 20 years old bro

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@MonetaryWonk @Cameron_The_Kid @PeterSchiff Seems to be pretty optimal considering we don’t have a time machine

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This is what I get trying to open an image. Fix your app @elonmusk @Twitter

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Brilliant speech addressed to our ‘woke’ youth fighting #climatechange by Konstantine Kisin.

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@Samsarasworld @tize4PF Boneless

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@RaoulGMI So profound Raoul

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@jamesdpitley @Winterpayload @Gravysprinklez @vexaris @GuyDealership Considering I was 17 in 2016 and decided not to vote for dumb or dumber in ‘20 you’d be correct in saying that.

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@BTCxLTCxETH If it does hit 30 it won’t really matter if it’s in 3 years

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@BoomerMays @clownworld

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@jamesdpitley @Winterpayload @Gravysprinklez @vexaris @GuyDealership Ahh that’s just value from mass media huh. Guess I would’ve known that sooner if it wasn’t for NYT paywall.