Josh Lewis

Disciple, Husband, Homeschooling father of 3, Crypto Enthusiast, Don’t Tread on Me

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@ScottAdamsSays Jesus lives, loves, and saves my dude! The ultimate filter, and I hope the reframe you need right now. Love you brother.

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

🚨 IMPORTANT 🚨

Why is Grayscale Dumping BTC ?

Before the spot ETF approval, GBTC used to redeem its shares by giving investors USD value, but they never sold the BTC.

That's why Grayscale became one of the largest BTC holders, beside Satoshi.

Now, with the spot ETF approval, investors are pulling their money out of GBTC for two reasons.

➡️ Grayscale is charging a 1.5% yearly management fee, which is 5–6 times higher than other ETF issuers.

➡️ A lot of investors bought GBTC at a 40% discount, and now it's at 0%, so they are exiting their positions.

In both scenarios, GBTC now has to sell BTC to pay it back.

When Will This Stop?

This can take a few weeks, and during that time, BTC can go sideways or even go down.

Once it settles, investors will put their money from GBTC into other ETFs that have a low management fee.

Remember, this is a long-term game, and you need to have patience; otherwise, you will lose your BTC to Wall Street.

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[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@Pisces_February @DrTurleyTalks *flings ad hominem attack*
*Proceeds to take moral high ground*

[Darn Tough Vermont @DarnTough]

Yeah, therapy is great and all, but have you felt the inner peace after pairing up a big pile of socks without a straggler?

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

Prove you can do hard things

When a teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say?

You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices.

You could say, “It’ll help you get into college,” but then they’re left wondering why college cares if you know calculus.

And once they’re in college, maybe you could say, “To get a good job,” but why would a potential hirer care how you did in multivariate calculus if your job doesn’t require any knowledge of calculus?

But I recently realized there is a very good reason to take Calculus. It’s to prove you can do hard things.

The ability to do hard things is perhaps the most useful ability you can foster in yourself or your children. And proof that you are someone who can do them is one of the most useful assets you can have on your life resume.

Our self-image is composed of historical evidence of our abilities. The more hard things you push yourself to do, the more competent you will see yourself to be.

If you can run marathons or throw double your body weight over your head, the sleep deprivation from a newborn is only a mild irritant.

If you can excel at organic chemistry or econometrics, onboarding for a new finance job will be a breeze.

But if we avoid hard things, anything mildly challenging will seem insurmountable.

We’ll cry into TikTok over an errant period at the end of a text message. We’ll see ourselves as incapable of learning new skills, taking on new careers, and escaping bad situations.

The proof you can do hard things is one of the most powerful gifts you can give yourself.

My goal with our kids is to avoid lying to them as much as possible.

I won’t tell them that calculus is super important or even that grades are super important. The truth is, they aren’t, so long as you have other plans.

Calculus is a great way to prove you can do hard things if you have no other proof to show.

But if you’re learning programming and building apps in your free time, or winning soccer championships, or writing a novel, then you are doing hard things. Probably harder than Calculus.

This is also why there’s so much survivorship bias and bad advice in the “C students hire A students” trope. Most C students are not doing other hard things instead of school. They’re just goofing off, so they end up working for the A student.

But some C students are getting C’s because they’re obsessed with other projects. Hard projects. And that obsession with doing hard things lets them blow past their Excellent Sheep peers over time.

So if you have a C student who’s obsessed with something hard, you probably don’t have to worry. If they’re getting high and watching TikTok, well…

I don’t particularly care what grades my kids get once they start school. But I do care that they consistently prove to themselves they can do hard things. If Calculus is how they want to do it, fine, but there are many, many more options.

And if you’re not someone who knows they can do hard things, find a way to prove it to yourself.

Build a habit, learn a skill, create something, whatever it is that turns your default stance on challenges from “that seems hard” to “I can figure it out.”

Create proof you can do hard things.

[rebelEducator @rebelEducator]

Most kids go through 12+ years of school without learning how to think.

They learn math and grammar, but they never learn critical thinking.

5 skills you need to be teaching your kids (and let's be honest, most adults need to learn them too) 👇

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@SimonAS160969 @RFlummerfelt @GadSaad @elonmusk Anything less than total capitulation is an assault on y'all apparently...

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in!

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Free @TheBabylonBee 🙏🙏🙏 @elonmusk

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@Mustafa01214881 @BillyM2k @elonmusk @cz_binance Paper hands be folding

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@mentalplex @fedtanyl @Popehat @JoeBiden That sounds like putting the cart before the horse

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@LawrenceBJones3 Seriously. Like the idea that life would be better not being had, than living in less than optimal circumstances, is such a pretentious and condescending notion.

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@zackcoolnumber @TheFootball401k @LawrenceBJones3 I don’t even understand this, we have demonstrably moved left as a nation. If anything the ratchet is the other direction.

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@Tosirwithlove5 Hacki Psaki

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@ZubyMusic Meh, I think it brings out the most combative side in many people. I mean I don’t talk like this all the time, but I jump on Twitter for a moment and it’s 50 people “LISTEN TO MY BAD IDEA” and I’m like “for the Love of God…”

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@BWRBooks @piper_pen @one_man_talking @JoJoFromJerz Don’t knock it till you try it right?

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

A brief, mediocre workout is better than no workout at all.

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@ColesTomas @MidwestNutcase @michaeljknowles We don’t disagree on the problem, we don’t disagree on the result, we disagree how to get there,I believe that while socialists frame things as “we all pitch in” it’s really “we cede autonomy to the government” which is really not the collective as such, it has its own incentives

[Josh Lewis @lewijo]

@stillsickofit @ClownBasket @Bhavik0880 Hot take