Jay H

I tweet things I want to re-read later.

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Pinning this.

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

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@TaraBull No

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@Autistic_Lauren There are a handful of movies I’ve watched dozens of times. “No Country for Old Men”, “Alien” (stop at chestburster, or even before facehugger appears), “District 9”, “Blue Velvet”, “Fargo”, …

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@Autistic_Lauren Right-click, “Add to queue”.

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@Autistic_Lauren Cats>Dogs.

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@oelma__ “Bohemian Rhapsody” it’s OK, but a fourth grader who is very literal thinking should not be listening to it.

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@diggi88409 @oelma__ That piano intro though.

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“Clavicular” kid is a bit autistic, applying hyperfocus to getting girls. For some value of “getting”. Making him some money I guess too. He’ll move on to another obsessive interest eventually. Can’t hate on ‘im. At least he’s not holed up playing first person shooter games and watching anime.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

My favorite line from Atomic Habits has been living in my head rent-free:

“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”

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Knopfler AND Clapton!

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@obobinde @KennethFolk To answer that you would have to have the parallel version of Ken that hadn’t gone through the stages of insight that he has, to compare to.

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@DanBig9953 B. It would be a repeat. I attended #12.

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Gold

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Elon is one my favorite people, but dude, the gardening simile. Homegrown tomato > store-bought tomato. 99.99999999%. The Economist editor is obviously clueless. But we know.

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@BretWeinstein Don’t pick on Miley! She enriches my life with even just the audio of https://t.co/HNGKLeYpof

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Country that doesn’t suck

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Peter Thiel just explained why the future keeps arriving on your screen and never on your street.

Thiel: “It was a bad idea to become an aero-astro engineer. It was a bad idea to become a chemical engineer or a mechanical engineer.”

Nuclear was worse than bad.

Thiel: “It would have been irresponsible to let you study that as a field in the 1980s.”

Irresponsible. The word for splitting the atom, in the country that split it first.

Thiel: “These were all industries that were sort of in structural decline because they were getting outlawed. They were getting regulated to death.”

Not outcompeted. Outlawed. Nothing beat them in a market. They were closed in a room.

One door stayed open.

Thiel: “That was the only sort of scientific, technical field that actually had a future in the 1980s.”

Computer science. At the time, not even classified as engineering.

So the most capable generation this country ever produced filed through the only unlocked door in the building. All of them. For forty years.

Thiel: “Silicon Valley deals in the world of bits, most of the economy is the world of atoms.”

That line gets quoted as an indictment of Silicon Valley. It is closer to an alibi.

They did not abandon the physical world. They were evicted from it.

Thiel: “They promised us flying cars and all we got was 140 characters.”

Everyone repeats the joke. Nobody ever priced it.

A canceled reactor leaves an empty field. A canceled bridge leaves a river. Both can be pointed at. Both can be mourned.

The engineer who spent his life optimizing click-through instead of propulsion leaves nothing behind. No ruin. No name. No grave.

Regulation is remembered as something done to industries. It was done to people. A rule does not delay a reactor. It deletes the man who would have designed it, twenty years before he picks a major.

He never fails at anything. He just never finds out what he was for.

The unbuilt has no wreckage, no anniversary, no constituency. It appears in no statistic. It appears as a country that feels smaller than it should, and no one can say why.

The century you are living in is not the century that was possible. It is the century that was permitted.

You have never seen your own country. Only the version that cleared review.

What feels ordinary is not a fact about the world. It is the shape left behind by every no said before you were born.

But nothing was destroyed. It was redirected. The talent stayed home. The physics never changed. The atoms are sitting exactly where we left them.

And four decades of exile in the world of bits produced the one thing capable of reopening the world of atoms. The detour built the key.

The lock was never on the laws of nature. It was on the paperwork.

America never ran out of builders. It stopped signing.

Somewhere right now, a finished design sits in somebody’s head, waiting on a signature.

The pen never left the table.

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Not just another straw:

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Education

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Spot on. https://t.co/YYcVhzhIkc