Jon Ratcliffe

CEO and founder of Engage Video Group, Many years at Google, Dad and husband

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

Was in Cannes this year discussing next generation video technology. Check out the discussion on link below https://t.co/gno4wyt3xv

[BrandTechTV @BrandTechTV]

Awesome discussion from @MOFILM's @jonrat09 & @elishagreenwell & @DJIGlobal discussing drones & 360degree video https://t.co/pdOhuRRa65

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

One of my favourite things about @rorysutherland is he just says it as it is - No politics, no agenda, just the reality as he sees it.

Crazy how rare that is today

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Just a reminder why electric vehicles are better than gas cars:

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

@tomfgoodwin IMDB top 20

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Here some of my Tiny Lessons from this episode with @JamesClear

1. “Every action you take is like a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”

2. “You cannot outwork the person working on a better thing.”

3. “The cost of good habits is in the present. The cost of bad habits is in the future.”

4. Prioritize work that keeps working for you once it’s done. Build assets that accumulate, rather than tasks that evaporate.

5. Standardize before you optimize. You cannot improve a habit that does not exist.

6. Shape your environment with friction. Make things you don’t want to do harder and things you do want to do easier.

7. Intensity makes for a good story. Consistency makes for good results.

8. “Do the obvious things first. That gets you 80% of the way there.”

9. Live in two timeframes: 10 years and one hour. Do something right now that benefits you in a decade.

10. “Don’t be the first to tell yourself no. Let the world tell you no first.”

11. Use your current advantages to gain new advantages.

12. The work is not being wasted. It’s just being stored.

13. Success isn’t 10,000 attempts; it’s 10,000 iterations. Don’t just try again—try differently.

14. “The quest for novelty overpowers the desire for results.”

15. When something’s working, we underestimate how long it can go for and how powerful it can be.

16. A lack of patience changes the outcome.

17. “If you’re not outthinking them, you’re not outworking them.”

18. “The most powerful form of preparation is a mindset that can handle uncertainty.”

19. You don’t know when the break will come, but if you keep creating surface area, luck will eventually find you.

20. It is highly unlikely that whatever you are working on right now is the best use of your time.

21. “The heaviest weight at the gym is the front door.”

22. “To start, you only need points A, B, and Z. You don’t need to see steps C through Y.”

23. If your actions are not oriented toward your goal, they’re not accumulating.

24. “Almost every thought you have is downstream from what you consume.”

25. Just because improvements aren’t noticeable, that doesn’t mean improvement isn’t happening.

26. “The tighter you cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.”

27. You don’t want to compete with the person having fun.

28. The fastest way to stop learning is to believe you already know it.

29. Knowledge is about the past, but decisions are about the future.

30. The desire to belong often overpowers the desire to understand.

31. “Habits are the repeated solutions to recurring problems.”

32. Broad funnel, tight filter.

33. Move like thunder: do fewer things, but with a crash that cannot be ignored.

34. Find ways to visualize your progress.

35. “The goal is not to beat the market. The goal is to end up wealthy.”

36. “Reputation takes care of itself if you take care of other people.”

37. Your first idea is not your best idea.

38. “We crave the status as much as we crave the outcome.”

39. Outcome over ego.

40. The only bad mindset is the one you’re fixed in.

41. People want to believe there’s a secret. There isn’t.

42. If you want to be a better writer, read more.

43. Maintain a positive mental attitude regardless of current circumstances.

44. So many problems in life come from your brain over-emphasizing minor details that don’t matter.

45. Success is having power over my days.

46. Don’t waste the reader’s time.

[Nick @nickcammarata]

most people i know gain like 20 iq when advising their friends lives and lose 20 iq when doing strategy for their own lives

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

@patrick_oshag If you want to understand the new wave of economic policy, the all in interview with @howardlutnick is exceptional

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

Jeffrey Sacks explains the time line of the Ukraine Russia conflict well

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

🚨🇪🇺 Geo-Political Scholar Jeffrey Sachs
Schools the EU Parliament on the reasons behind the Russia Ukraine Conflict.

Every-time Legacy Media or a Politician states the was is “unprovoked” is a complete lie.

This doesn’t even include some of the more grotesque activities Ukraine has been well documented as being involved in.

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

@rorysutherland One of those things everyone on the planet would be in favour of

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

For those of us who have been fighting the free speech wars for years, this feels like a major victory and turning point.

Thank you President Trump for creating this political and cultural realignment. Any other man would have been destroyed by the prosecution and persecution directed at you, your family, and your businesses. You triumphed.

Thank you Elon Musk for charging into the breach when free speech was at its lowest ebb. You defied the global censorship machine, proved Community Notes worked, and gave us the Twitter Files.

Thank you Zuck and Meta for recognizing that the censorship had gone too far, and seizing the opportunity to make a course correction. I do believe you are getting back to your roots.

Will the rest of Big Tech follow suit? It’s time.

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

@justinspratt That would be huge - Feels like the hardest part will be scaling a fleet

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

Also what this guy said

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

Perhaps @nntaleb wisest words of all time - I am so bad at this

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If you're smart, wealth can buy you the lightness of absence of schedule & the ability to modulate your day to surprises as they come.
If you're stupid (like most rich pple), wealth buys you the prison of a rigid schedule, metastatic obligations, & self-feeding complications.

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

Just like self driving is a lot more dangerous than self driving

[Deedy @deedydas]

o1-preview is far superior to doctors on reasoning tasks and it's not even close, according to OpenAI's latest paper.

AI does ~80% vs ~30% on the 143 hard NEJM CPC diagnoses.

It's dangerous now to trust your doctor and NOT consult an AI model.

Here are some actual tasks:

1/5

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

👀🚨 JUST IN: President Trump has announced his plan for the “American Academy” which will be a free online academy that will be funded by lawsuits against large private universities.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Did you know that 30 tech founders were secretly debanked?

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

@rorysutherland Its all your great work getting people to buy Phillips air fryers - I hope they appreciate you😀

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

This feels like a great thing for global health

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health. The Safety and Health of all Americans is the most important role of any Administration, and HHS will play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country. Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

@justinspratt Feels like the only way to evaluate people in 2024 is through their long form interviews - So easy for a series of out of context clips to get scale today

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

CNN going after Kamala like this definitely signals something bigger is at play

[Kyle Becker @kylenabecker]

BREAKING: CNN just found out that Kamala Harris is a LIAR. This is simply hilarious 🤣

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

@justinspratt One of the big gaslights of 2024

[Jon Ratcliffe @jonrat09]

The media is meant to be reporting the news, not collectively taking sides.

When you see it happen so brazenly, in a co-ordinated way, you have to start to reassess what the news is in 2024.

It’s not news any more, as in it’s no longer an accurate account of something that happened. It’s a clear effort to impact the perceptions of news readers at scale.

Maybe it’s always been that way and the subtlety has been lost along the way.

When you read any news after this kind of thing, you have to ask, is this an accurate account of what happened or is someone working to shape my beliefs.

Doesn’t matter what side of this particular one you land on. We all need accurate news.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Collection of the negative headlines from the Trump x Elon spaces