Luke Walker

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Mechanical Engineer
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[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@theryandreyer Full send success

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@theryandreyer I'm sending it tomorrow. Wish me luck.

[HonestMath.com @honest_math]

Something I was surprised to learn as an adult was how foreign of an idea deep work is to people. Isolated, long-form sword pounding is so rare as to seem odd to most folks.

But I don’t understand how anybody could get any real work done without it.

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@evan_thayer @CalebChamberla6 Yeah I was mostly curious what the smallest @CalebChamberla6 does at OSH cut.

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@CalebChamberla6 @evan_thayer What is the smallest metric tap?

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@1llegalEngineer Snaptron snapdomes with custom button.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

🔘 The Reset Button

(This post has an important point—and it’s not about diet.)

I rarely weigh myself, but two days ago I tipped the scales at 205. That’s 10 pounds too heavy—the result of 5 weeks with no climbing (due to surgery) plus too much of my wife’s homemade ice cream.

I sounded the alarm—as I write these words, I'm 36 hours into a fast.

Each time I fast, I’m reminded how much of my eating is driven by routine and boredom, not actual hunger or nutritional need.

My friend Brynn adheres to an ultra-strict diet due to chronic gut issues. She makes zero exceptions, ever. One time I asked her:

Aren’t you hungry all the time?

I'll never forget her response:

“I was at first. Then I realized that being a little hungry is OK. Now I barely think about it, and I feel ten times better.”

Being a little hungry is OK.

🔘 In all areas of life, it’s good to hit The Reset Button occasionally.

Years ago, I interviewed the well-known climber Will Gadd. He had just sold his house and moved into a van to chase good weather across North America.

I asked Will how the transition was going. He gave a similar answer to Brynn’s:

“It was uncomfortable for the first three weeks. But when everything you own has to fit into a van, you quickly realize how little you really need to be happy. Now I’ll never go back.”

The Reset Button is so important that Elon Musk made it step two of his “algorithm” for product design:

“Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn’t delete enough.”

The same applies to life.

Joni Mitchell sang, “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” It’s a great litmus test:

Remove something from your life for 30 days. If it’s important, you’ll miss it.

Just add it back.

But you might discover—like Brynn, Will, and I—that less is more.

Whether it’s our body, the things we own, our relationships, or even our thoughts, we tend to put on metaphorical weight over time.

🔘 Maybe it’s time to hit The Reset Button.

P.S. If you enjoyed this post, would you please comment, like, and repost? The algorithm hates this type of content.

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@emm0sh @_baldtires "never crash" 🤣

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

Just wait until @levelsio finds out about the sheet metal suitcase:

@sendcutsend on X: "Get your sheet metal suitcase here: https://t.co/y7mP7qBt0h" / X

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Update on the Rimowa story: we flew Copenhagen to Lisbon now

They somehow managed to do this to it 😂

$1000 suitcase! 🤡

P.S. I didn't buy it, my gf did, she's more susceptible to brand value (and paid influencers)

Rimowa I think is really just way worse than any $100 Samsonite or American Tourister suitcase that never breaks

If you want to pay 10x more for 10x less buy Rimowa (or anything owned by LVMH)

Stay away from luxury brands!

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@theryandreyer Rooting for team west!

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Chat-first work tools are not the answer. The flaws are baked into the system, you can't undo them. It would be like asking a kangaroo to fly. It can get off the ground, and look like flight for a moment, but it comes crashing right down.

Here's why:
https://t.co/sry9Gh9SpK

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@comma_ai @i2cjak

[kache @yacineMTB]

it's really that simple

[Caleb (OSH Cut) @CalebChamberla6]

@PalmerLuckey If you wanted a VR sim racing rig...

[Paul Millerd @p_millerd]

Lots of people say this especially men who work a lot.

But what sorts of hard are we talking about? My dad worked a lot and I think he got a lot of satisfaction. But I also wish he just worked less and was around.

I like to ask this question to people: do you wish your parents were more ambitious in their goals or more present and connected to you?

I am not convinced the best thing I can do for my three year old is to go battle the business world right now and be away from her more. But I can also see why this is a helpful story for some.

For me it’s clear that work is necessary for me to be connected to myself and be satisfied with life. But I think more parents should consider that a bigger challenge may be finding ways to be connected to their kids than capturing shareholder value

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@bscholl Close to FNL?

[DHH @dhh]

You can’t outwork the whole world. There’s always going to be someone somewhere willing to work as hard as you. Someone just as hungry. Or hungrier.

Assuming you can work harder and longer than someone else is giving yourself too much credit for your effort and not enough for theirs. Putting in 1,001 hours to someone else’s 1,000 isn’t going to tip the scale in your favor.

What’s worse is when management holds up certain people as having a great “work ethic” because they’re always around, always available, always working. That’s a terrible example of a work ethic and a great example of someone who’s overworked.

A great work ethic isn’t about working whenever you’re called upon. It’s about doing what you say you’re going to do, putting in a fair day’s work, respecting the work, respecting the customer, respecting coworkers, not wasting time, not creating unnecessary work for other people, and not being a bottleneck. Work ethic is about being a fundamentally good person that others can count on and enjoy working with.

So how do people get ahead if it’s not about outworking everyone else?

People make it because they’re talented, they’re lucky, they’re in the right place at the right time, they know how to work with other people, they know how to sell an idea, they know what moves people, they can tell a story, they know which details matter and which don’t, they can see the big and small pictures in every situation, and they know how to do something with an opportunity. And for so many other reasons.

So get the outwork myth out of your head. Stop equating work ethic with excessive work hours. Neither is going to get you ahead or help you find calm.

[The Outwork Myth — It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work, 2018]

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@emm0sh @peteoxenham If you ever make it out to CO I'd love to go on a run or MTB ride.

[Luke Walker @lgwalker2010]

@peteoxenham What are you going to build?

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

This is a rare chance to own a real, unmodified, very much not-street-legal NASCAR racing machine.

Also one of the best-looking ones in a very long time, in my opinion.