Gregory Ricks

[Gregory Ricks @gregoryricks]

@GeniusGTX INCENTIVES

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Elon Musk says political tribalism makes reasoned debate physically impossible.

For decades, civic culture had assumed that facts beat ideology.

Debate it. Argue it. Persuade with data.

Eventually the truth would prevail.

Elon: "You often simply cannot reason with people."

Same evidence. Different conclusions. No movement.

Then Musk named the dynamic that surprised him most.

"Politics generally is very tribal. People lose their objectivity usually with politics."

He named the failure mode: **political tribalism**.

Musk, who had spent a decade engineering vehicles that succeed or fail on physics, had assumed politics would yield to the same rules.

The same engineer who debugged code by tracing root causes would defend their political party's worst decisions and condemn the opposing party's best ideas — because tribe was not a logical structure but an evolutionary one, predating language, science, and the concept of truth.

"They generally have trouble seeing the good on the other side or the bad on their own side."

Same facts. Two tribes. Two conclusions.

Same engineer. Two completely different reasoning modes.

After Musk's surprise sank in, he stopped trying to persuade the opposition and started trying to dilute their power.

Musk, on what surprised him most about politics:

"That, I guess, was one of the things that surprised me the most."

What argument are you still having with someone whose mind cannot move?

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— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

[Gregory Ricks @gregoryricks]

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[Gregory Ricks @gregoryricks]

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[Emotion & Music @Emotion78687]

That's what true talent is.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Charlie Munger reveals the simple daily habit that compounded into billions:

"I read The Richest Man in Babylon which taught the joys of underspending your income and investing the difference and how wonderfully it would work over time"

"I got the idea that I had a mental compound interest thing too, and so I finally decided I was going to give the best hour of the day to improving my own mind"

"That may have been a very selfish thing to do but it worked"

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Warren Buffett spent thirty years calling airline stocks “a death trap for investors.” Then he bought every major US airline. Then he sold them all at the bottom of the COVID crash for billions in losses.

In a 1990 letter to investors in his company Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett wrote that humanity would have been better off if “a farsighted capitalist” had been present at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and shot Orville Wright down before he could fly the first plane. He’d already been burned once. In 1989 he put $358 million into US Airways. Five years later his stake was worth a quarter of what he paid for it. He called the whole thing a case of “sloppy analysis or hubris.”

In 2016 he forgot all of it. Berkshire poured $7 to $8 billion into Delta, American, Southwest, and United. By late 2019 he was Delta’s single largest shareholder.

When COVID hit he panicked. American Airlines stock had already crashed 63%. Delta was down 59%. He sold everything at the bottom in April 2020. Within weeks the airlines started recovering. A year later American and Southwest were up 80% from those lows. United and Delta were up 70%. If he had simply held on, his position would have been worth around $5 billion more.

At the 2020 shareholder meeting he said it plainly. “Our airline position was a mistake. Berkshire is worth less today because I took that position than if I hadn’t.”

Buffett’s other most repeated line is “be greedy when others are fearful.” He sold at the bottom of a crash while everyone else was selling too. He broke his airline rule and his rule against panic-selling in the same decision. Two of the most quoted principles in modern investing, both written by him, both ignored by him when it mattered most.

The most cited investor alive could see the trap clearly enough to warn the world about it for three decades. He still walked into it twice.

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Warren Buffett: "Diversification is a protection against ignorance."

"If you want to make sure that nothing bad happens to you relative to the market, you own everything. There's nothing wrong with that. That is a perfectly sound approach for somebody who does not feel they know how to analyze businesses."

"If you know how to analyze businesses and value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks — or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably. There aren't that many wonderful businesses that are understandable to a single human being in all likelihood."

[ENS Haber @haberENS]

ABD’li bir yorumcunun paylaşımı:

23 yıl içinde bu 3 adam, 9 ülke işgal etti, 11 milyon insan öldürdü ve tüm bunlara rağmen onlara kimse 'terörist' demedi.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Billy Bob Thornton called it years before most people noticed.

On Joe Rogan, he said when the internet first arrived he told his wife: “Watch and see — this is going to ruin people’s view of each other and ruin society.” He predicted that giving everyone a platform wouldn’t just lift real talent — it would flood the world with noise, bathroom selfies, and people becoming “stars” based purely on follower counts instead of actual ability.

He’s still salty about 22-year-olds at studios greenlighting influencers who “can’t do jack shit.”

We’ve built an entire culture where attention is currency, and actual talent often loses out to whoever games the algorithm best. Billy Bob saw the downside coming from day one.

I remember thinking the internet would make everything better too. And in many ways it has — it’s given voice to millions of people who otherwise would never have been heard. But it also made the conversation louder and often dumber. Billy Bob’s old-man-on-the-lawn warning still hits on some real problems.

Do you think the internet has been a net positive for giving regular people a voice, or has it done more harm than good?

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

That dog’s been waiting his whole life for this to happen.

Good dog.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

Mike Rowe says young data center electricians are making upwards of $260,000/year, with no college debt 🤯

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

Warren Buffett: “You don't get paid for activity. You only get paid for being right.”

Charlie Munger: “An occasional dull stretch [without any buying] is no great tragedy in an investment lifetime.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is the end of democracy if voter ID is not passed

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Senator Kennedy reads off the ingredients in Starbucks most popular drink:

"The most popular Starbucks coffee drink is a caramel macchiato. I don't know what that is. I generally don't drink coffee that takes 10 or more words to order. But I'm told that it's Starbucks most popular drink is the caramel macchiato."

"Here's what's in a caramel macchiato. Milk, Breed Espresso, Vanilla Syrup, I didn't know what Vanilla Syrup was. I found out that Vanilla Syrup is sugar, water, natural flavors, potassium, sorbate, and citric acid."

"Also in a caramel machiato is caramel sauce. Makes sense. That's why they call it a caramel machiato. Caramel sauce is sugar, corn syrup, butter, cream, milk, and salt."

"Also in a caramel macchiato is water, heavy cream, nonfat dry milk, natural flavors, salt, mono and ditchy cellurides, I probably mispronounced that, soy and lecithin, probably mispronounced that too, but I don't know what the hell it is anyway, and sulfites."

"The sugar got my attention. 42 grams of that are sugar. That's about 85 % of your recommended daily sugar intake. Fat intake, one of these provides you with 30 % of your recommended daily saturated fat intake and 12 % of your recommended daily cholesterol take. A caramel macchiato has as much sugar as 12 Chips Ahoy Cookies."

"Caramel Macchiato has as much sugar as four Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts. A caramel macchiato, the most popular drink at Starbucks, has as much sugar as two servings of Breyer's cookies and cream ice cream. It has as much sugar as one Chick-Fil-A brownie."

"And it has about as much sugar as about 50 % of a medium McDonald's chocolate milkshake. oh You can burn off the calories though if you run three miles to burn off the calories."

"So, again, I'm not here to tell people what they should drink or not drink or eat or not drink, but I wanted the American people to the extent that they are listening and that they care to understand why I think Secretary Kennedy made the point that he made about coffee that takes 10 or more words to order."

[Gregory Ricks @gregoryricks]

@SenToddYoung @SenMikeLee Thank you!

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump's Greenland masterclass is IMPRESSING everyone, it's Art of the Deal in full force 🔥

“Classic Trump! He wants something, he asks for 10 times that. The other side flips out. They go back and forth, it becomes a huge story!" https://t.co/iG7DDQPse5

"Finally, they make an offer, he agrees to it and it’s kinda what they could have got in the first place!”

BAIER: "He says they’re wonderful people, happy to work with them. And suddenly it’s this dismount that we could predict by how it was set up at the beginning.”

YORK: “Yes, and the other side is happy because they think they dodged the bullet. So it’s classic Trump!”

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Population barely changed, but SNAP doubled due to massive fraud

[Sidney Powell 🇺🇸 Attorney, Author, Gladiator @SidneyPowell1]

Wonderful success story‼️
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Persistence, self-confidence, hard work, and following God’s call on your life are a winning formula.
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