Jordan Selleck

banker to entrepreneur | married w/ 4 kids | veteran advocate | 7x ironman | 17x marathon | 2.79 GPA | failed biz calc 3x | dyslexic | ADHD

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

@TheChiefNerd @grok is this true? List a source

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

Dr. Seuss's publisher bet him $50 that he couldn't write an entertaining children's book using only 50 unique words.

Result? Green Eggs & Ham, using exactly 50 different words.

Author David Epstein writes about this in his book, "Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better"

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In 1897, the U.S. Army wanted to know if bicycles could replace horses for infantry. So they took 20 Black soldiers of the 25th Infantry – the Buffalo Soldiers – and gave them a mission: ride from Fort Missoula, Montana to St. Louis. 1,900 miles.

The “Iron Riders” carried 60-pound packs, rifles, and one spare tire each. They crossed the Rockies, the Badlands, and the Great Plains on heavy, single-speed bikes with no roads. Private John Findley fixed flats with strips of his own shirt. They drank from cattle tanks and were refused water in Wyoming towns.

It took 41 days. They averaged 52 miles a day. When they rolled into St. Louis, the white newspapers called it a “stunt.” The Army said “impractical” and shut the program down. But the Iron Riders proved it could be done.

Their commanding officer wrote: “No horse could have made it. These men did.”

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

@WallStreetApes Supply & Demand

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American healthcare worker has a very serious warning for parents

“Don't buy your kid an e-bike. If I could give parents any piece of advice right now, it would be don't get an e-bike for your child. The consequences to e-bike accidents are life-changing and deadly, and honestly, kids should not be riding them — So please just don't buy them”

She’s right they are very dangerous here’s some data:

E-bikes can reach 20 mph, and Class 3 e-bikes can reach 28 mph. Same models can go even faster

An estimated 45,000–60,000 e-bike injuries occur annually in the US across all ages

Roughly 8,000–12,000 children and teens have to visit the ER every year from them

Children involved in e-bike crashes are more likely to suffer traumatic brain injuries, fractures and internal injuries than those injured on traditional bicycles because of the higher speeds

Pediatric trauma experts report dozens of children and teens have died in e-bike crashes in recent years

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

@unusual_whales Unfollowing

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Over 50% of adults read 0 books a year.

Reading for pleasure has fallen from 28% to 16%.

Americans are more likely to gamble than to read a book.

This is not good...

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Happy Independence Day!

There’s a story from the end of the Revolutionary War I want to tell as we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and it’s one everyone in the world can learn from.

George Washington, at that moment, after commanding the American forces to victory, was the most powerful man in the new country. Many people talked about making him King of America.

Across the ocean, King George was sitting with an American painter, and asked what he thought Washington would do now that the war was ending. The painter said he believed he would go back to his farm.

The King said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

As the war officially ended, Washington came to speak to Congress and said, “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action.” He returned his commission they’d given him in 1775 - after more than 8 years of leading the Americans to victory without pay, and he was home at Mount Vernon for Christmas.

Of course, he was elected as our first President a few years later, and after two terms, showed the same selflessness again when he willingly gave up his power and went back to Mount Vernon again.

That’s true greatness. He had all the power in the world. But power, alone, does not make you great.

Washington’s greatness came from being a true servant - to a cause much bigger than himself. His greatness was his complete lack of selfishness.

The whole story of American Independence is a story of selflessness. It’s a story of people who set their self-interest aside and worked for each other.

We’ve all heard the line about “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Apparently, Ben Franklin might have actually never said that.

But that’s fine, because the same mentality is right there in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, published on this day 250 years ago:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

We mutually pledge to each other.

No one was in this alone. No one was in it for themselves. This was a group of people with different backgrounds who were in it for each other.

Today is a reminder: greatness comes from what we do for each other, never what we do for ourselves.

That’s a lesson that applies no matter what country you call home.

It’s a lesson that doesn’t require any law passed by a politician, because, let’s be honest, if you’re waiting for selfless politicians, I really hope you are not holding your breath.

All of us have the power to be there for the people around us. For our families and friends. For our neighbors. For everyone.

All of us can reach for greatness.

It’s as simple as looking beyond yourself, seeing past the mirror, picking your eyes up from your phone, and pledging to be there for each other.

Happy Fourth. May you all find your own version of greatness today by lifting each other up.

Lift up your neighborhood. Lift up America. Lift up the World.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, America wakes 250 years later as a beacon of hope, a republic entrusted to its people, an idea that changed the world.

A nation worth preserving. A dream worth pursuing. A freedom defended by every generation.

Happy 250th, America! 🇺🇸

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

🇺🇸 WATCH THIS! Star Spangled Banner played out on steel plates!

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

I have read approximately 3,000 10-Ks in my life. I have read my wife’s emotional state correctly maybe 11 times. This is troubling because the skills should transfer. Both require you to look past the headline. Both require you to read the footnotes. Both require you to notice what was said last quarter that is not being said this quarter.

I can spot a goodwill impairment from 40 pages away. I cannot spot that my wife has been quietly furious since Tuesday. In a 10-K I notice when management changes the word “challenging” to “dynamic” and I correctly interpret this as a warning. In my marriage my wife changed the word “fine” to “fine.” and I did not notice the period. The period was the entire disclosure.

I missed it. I read a footnote last week in a packaging company’s annual report that disclosed a related-party transaction worth $400,000 and I caught it in 90 seconds. My wife told me three times this month that she was tired and I interpreted this as “tired” when in fact it was a Level 3 disclosure requiring immediate management response. I have a system for 10-Ks. I read the MD&A first, then the risk factors, then the cash flow statement, then the notes. I have no system for my wife. She is a company that does not file. She reports continuously and without warning and the format changes every quarter. Her risk factors are not enumerated.

Her MD&A is delivered through sighs of varying length and I have not yet developed the ear. Last week she said “do whatever you want” and I did whatever I wanted and it turns out the correct interpretation of “do whatever you want” was “do not do that specific thing” and I have no idea how I was supposed to know that, and yet, looking back, the signals were all there. The signals are always there. I have been trained to find signals. I find them in companies I will never meet. I miss them in the person I have lived with for nine years. My wife has started saying things like “you would notice this if I were a stock” and she is correct. She is correct. If she had a ticker I would have already built a 6,000-word model on her. I would know her seasonality.

I would know her capex cycle. I would know which quarters historically run hot. Instead I treat her like a private company and I am surprised every time the auditors arrive. I am going to bed now. She said good night in a tone. I do not know what the tone meant. I will find out in the morning. Or I will not. The 10-K of my marriage is filed in real time and I am, as always, three quarters behind.

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

@Codie_Sanchez SMB

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

@unusual_whales As an employer, yes

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

@unusual_whales not enough. they should pay fines painful enough to regret ever getting close to a shut down and proportional to their public net worth

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Nick Saban's 5 Enemies of Greatness.
Tack them on a wall.

[𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 @GodswillChemist]

This is what 400 calories looks like. Same number. Two completely different outcomes.

[Grummz @Grummz]

This is better than the Lego Movie.😂

Iran pilot rescue.

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

Congress should be FINED $1,000 for House members and $2,000 for Senate members for every day the government is shut down, in addition to no pay or backpay.

[Jordan Selleck @jordanselleck]

@boysbelnboys The world is better with people like him in it.