Jinesh Dedhia

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Seneca hits you with a brick.
Pay attention to your life.

[Peché Africa 🇿🇦 @pmcafrica]

Bro said... hold my glasses 👓

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

There is all the difference in the world between takers and makers.

Production never even crosses their minds. Like parasites, socialists exist solely to take and consume, never to create or contribute.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Life rarely changes in a positive way without an increase in responsibility.

That can mean taking ownership of your health or committing to a relationship or starting a business.

Whatever it is, if you want the trajectory to change, the amount of responsibility usually has to change.

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

"Self-control is empathy with your future self." - Seinfeld

[Navniet Sekera @navsekera]

साक्षी, मध्य प्रदेश की एक प्रवासी मजदूर की बेटी, ने दिल्ली पुलिस के कांस्टेबल थान सिंह द्वारा चलाए जा रहे मुफ्त शिक्षण केंद्र ‘थान सिंह की पाठशाला’ में पढ़ाई करके कक्षा 10 की बोर्ड परीक्षा पास की।
वह कक्षा 7 में यहां जुड़ी थीं और बुनियादी पढ़ाई में कमजोर थीं, लेकिन नियमित मार्गदर्शन और सहयोग से उन्होंने लगातार सुधार किया और पढ़ाई जारी रखी।
2015 में लाल किले के पास शुरू हुई यह पाठशाला अब 80 से अधिक वंचित बच्चों को शिक्षा दे रही है, जिससे वे स्कूल छोड़ने और सड़क से जुड़े जोखिमों से बच सकें।
साक्षी की कहानी दिखाती है कि लगातार मार्गदर्शन और सुरक्षित शिक्षण वातावरण सच में जीवन बदल सकते हैं।
कांस्टेबल थान सिंह ने अपने कर्तव्य से आगे बढ़कर समाज के भविष्य को दिशा देने का सराहनीय कार्य किया है।
उनकी यह पहल दर्शाती है कि समर्पित पुलिस कर्मी केवल सुरक्षा ही नहीं, बल्कि समाज निर्माण में भी महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाते हैं। शाबाश!

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

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[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

🧵 1/14: Just days after Paul Ehrlich (the man whose 1968 book “The Population Bomb” predicted billions would starve) passed away, it’s the perfect moment to celebrate the scientist who proved Ehrlich and other doomsayers spectacularly wrong.

Meet Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy who launched the Green Revolution and quite literally saved a billion lives. This is the ultimate story of human ingenuity triumphing over scarcity.

[Handre @Handre]

LASIK eye surgery cost $2,200 per eye in 2000. Today it's around $1,000 per eye despite 24 years of inflation. Meanwhile, an MRI that cost $1,200 in 2000 now costs $3,000+. The difference? LASIK operates in a free market with no insurance interference and minimal regulation.

When patients pay directly, providers must compete on price and quality. LASIK clinics advertise prices, offer financing, and constantly improve technology to attract customers. Compare this to hospital procedures where prices are hidden, patients never see bills, and insurance companies negotiate opaque rates that somehow always increase faster than inflation.

Cosmetic surgery follows the same pattern. Breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, and other elective procedures have become more affordable and safer over decades. Surgeons invest in better techniques and equipment because they must satisfy paying customers, not insurance bureaucrats or hospital administrators focused on maximizing reimbursements.

The lesson is clear: remove third-party payment systems and excessive regulation, and you get Austrian economics in action. Prices fall, quality rises, and innovation accelerates. Healthcare costs aren't rising because of aging populations or new technology—they're rising because we've destroyed the price mechanism that makes markets work.

[Handre @Handre]

In 1920s Soviet Union, planners decided Moscow needed more nails. So they ordered factories to produce tons of nails—literally. Clever factory managers made huge, heavy nails to hit their weight targets with minimal effort. When planners caught on and switched to counting nails by quantity, factories cranked out thousands of tiny, useless pins.

This wasn't incompetence—it was inevitable. Without market prices, socialist planners had no way to know what people actually wanted or what resources truly cost. Ludwig von Mises predicted this exact chaos in 1920, showing that rational economic calculation requires genuine market prices formed by voluntary exchange.

Today's central planners face the same impossible task, just with fancier computers and bigger bureaucracies.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

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[Jinesh Dedhia @jineshd]

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[Jinesh Dedhia @jineshd]

Myth of Virtuous Democracy
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[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

RIP to @ScottAdamsSays, an unflinchingly honest sage and wit who also showed me great kindness.

In honor of him, here are 10 of my favorite Scott Adams quotes:

[Jinesh Dedhia @jineshd]

As always you stayed useful till the end. You will be missed.
Farewell Scott...

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Remember this banger of a figure?

It shows the results of clinical trials before and after the preregistration of scholars' study design became a requirement.

What do you notice?

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore, we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."

— Thomas Sowell

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

It’s that day when I make you all look at this

[Naval @naval]

A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned.