howietee

Suffers from Manchester United performance anxiety. Irritated by two small children. Supported by our WonderWife. Walked to death by the family dog. Guinness.

[howietee @howietee]

It’s always fun to find out @ray_ban closing your warranty repair ticket because I didn’t claim their offer, WHEN I WASN’T SENT ANYTHING, and the claim continued to state “we’ll be in touch”. #CustomerCare

[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

Donald Trump. An Apology.

The new Private Eye is out now

[howietee @howietee]

It appears the movie “Civil War” was a documentary of events that’ll occur in 2025.

[howietee @howietee]

@GLB_88 Don’t apologise. Own it! 💪🏻

[howietee @howietee]

@Pops__o You look simply wonderful @Pops__o !

[howietee @howietee]

Maybe @SuellaBraverman needs to stop trying to be the most hated Home Secretary in history.

[Emily Darlington MP @emily4MK]

5 years ago Milton Keynes was dubbed ‘tent city’ by the media. Today, no one needs to sleep rough on our streets. How did we do it? A thread by the Cabinet Member responsible 👇

[howietee @howietee]

@GLB_88 Keto diet. I’ve managed to lose more than that in 3 weeks doing no real exercise (beyond walking the dog) and drinking (lots of) v.dry Prosecco / vodka diet lemonade at weekends! It’s a pretty boring/hard work diet TBH, 3 weeks is enough.

[howietee @howietee]

@Jruys Or location too, As long as you’re out of reach of satellites (indoors), VPN’ed to a “supported” country, set timezone to match, AAAAAND the VPN IP address you’ve been assigned isn’t also streaming the same football stream to more than 9 others, you’re golden!!! 💪😜

[howietee @howietee]

…and you phone probably has more storage than is in that room! 🤯🤯🤯

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The Cray-1 Supercomputer was the world’s fastest from 1976 to 1982.

The round tower minimized wire lengths of over 60 miles of wire.

It was 10 times faster than competing machines.

Cost—$10M, drew 115 kW of power, enough to run about 10 homes.

Your cell phone is faster.

[howietee @howietee]

👀👍🏻

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Josh Waitzkin was a chess prodigy.

He won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship at age 11. He became an International Master at age 16. And his life was made into a movie (“Searching for Bobby Fischer”) at 17.

But then, around the age of 18, Waitzkin quit playing chess because…

He got a new coach.

“I was a naturally creative, aggressive chess player,” Waitzkin explained.

But the new coach forced Waitzkin to play like the great chess players Anatoly Karpov and Tigran Petrosian—“the most positional, conservative chess players.”

When he was forced to play in a way that didn’t align with his natural proclivities, Waitzkin said, “I lost my love for the game.”

So he quit.

He later took up martial arts, and after just 2 years of training, he won his first national championship in martial arts.

Asked if he took anything from chess into the martial arts, Waitzkin said he leaned into his unique physical and mental traits:

“And in my observation of competitors in any discipline, this a really fundamental idea. Those who succeed at the highest level, I think, basically manifest their unique character through their discipline.”

Takeaway 1:

Waitzkin said he was at his best (as a chess player then a martial artist) when his style aligned with his personality.

This is known in economics as “match quality”—the degree of alignment between the traits of a profession and the traits of a person.

The NBA executive turned venture capitalist, Sam Hinkie, was asked how he thought about shaping his career path.

Essentially, Hinkie said he tried to optimize for match quality.

“By nature,” Hinkie explained, “I think in decades, and I have a steady temperament.”

So, Hinkie thought, “Can you get to a place where there is leverage on that kind of thinking, where that kind of steady temperament is rewarded?”

Takeaway 2:

Waitzkin writes in his book, “The Art of Learning,” that “one of the most critical factors in becoming a high performer is the degree to which your relationship to your pursuit stays in harmony with your unique disposition.”

The music producer Rick Rubin is a good example of this.

Rubin is a voracious consumer of art. He’s constantly listening to music, reading a book, watching a movie, at a museum, or driving around just to look at beautiful architecture.

“It’s all I do,” Rubin told screenwriter Brian Koppelman. “But not because it’s my job. It’s like, my job is my job because the person that I am loves to do those things.”

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“It seems to me that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” — Jim Henson

Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[howietee @howietee]

@EndGameWW3 Chinese.

[howietee @howietee]

@talkSPORT 100% yes, unfortunately. Thankfully though Ref dismissed it!…

[CONTROLLER TALK @ControllerTechz]

This study is ground breaking.

Scientists used a ChatGPT like model to decode human thoughts🤯

The results? Human thoughts were predicted with 82% accuracy using MRI recordings.

The implications of this are significant.

The breakthrough paves the way for potential applications in neuroscience, communication, and human-machine interfaces.

This advancement raises concerns about mental privacy, emphasizing the need for policies to protect individuals from potential misuse as this technology advances.

What do you think?

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

We. All of us, have just landed on an uninhibited and undiscovered continent. We can sense it is rich and full of new discoveries. Each one of us are valuable in this exploration.

It is one of the 1000 reasons AI must be unadulterated, unmolested and uncensored and free to all.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Dominion has just asked a Delaware judge to force Fox News owners Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch, along with Fox's chief legal officer Viet Dinh and Paul Ryan to testify live in court at their $1.6B defamation trial

They would have to join Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo and Laura Ingraham in court live.

The trial is scheduled to begin in 12 DAYS on April 17!

Who else is EXCITED!

[howietee @howietee]

Why stay in the NHS when this is on offer?! It’s disgraceful what they’ve done to turn the NHS into the disaster it currently is… 🤬🤬🤬

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

So, my sis took the GP job in Canada’s publicly funded, universal access health service.

This is the deal:

▪️9 to 4, with an hour for lunch
▪️1 hour for patients she’s never met before
▪️20min for returns
▪️6 months accommodation
▪️relocation fees

All for double the salary!

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

Lineker vs Braverman.

#ImWithGary on this one.

[howietee @howietee]

@FatboySlim @GaryLineker Love it!!!

[howietee @howietee]

Hey @GaryLineker @alanshearer & @IanWright0 - can we have a Twitter commentary on todays football action instead of that ultra-right wing @BBC MOTD show??