Barry Green

Surf-life Coach

[Barry Green @makingthedrop]

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President.”

-Psychologist Albert Ellis

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news."

— John Muir

[Barry Green @makingthedrop]

@dmweisberger @_The_Prophet__ Stanford faculty member moonlighting at a nearby Jr College I was at 38 yrs ago… critical thinking course, simple thesis, “how do you know what somebody is telling you is true?” He didnt just want elite students getting this learning, and this should be HS level requirement imho

[Aylo @alpha_pls]

Life update that no one asked for, but maybe you used to like some stuff I wrote and wondered where I went:

A while back I came across the Rubber Ball Theory.

The idea is simple: imagine you're juggling five balls, work, family, health, friends, and spirit. Work is made of rubber. Drop it and it bounces back. The other four are made of glass. Drop one of those and they shatter.

That hit me hard, and it made so much sense.

After grinding it out for a few cycles with no breaks, I decided it was time to life maxx for a bit with my wife and young kids.

I had to step away from tweeting and writing newsletters, and mostly disconnect from the markets.

I took my whole family on an adventure travelling around Japan for a few months, whilst having a load of renovation work done to the house back home.

I spent invaluable time with my two young boys. Made memories and had once in a lifetime experiences I'll look back on fondly as I grow old.

I'm always super conscious that tomorrow is not a given. You have to find a way to live in the present.

Every time I log into X I'm fed the doomer narrative that if you aren't online every second of the day you'll fall behind and become a serf once AI takes over for good.

Don't believe those lies frens. Working hard is amazing, but it's rubber, it will bounce back.

Your family and friends? Those are glass. And they are far more meaningful in the long run.

Don't forget that.

(little view from Hakone - beautiful place)

[Barry Green @makingthedrop]

@graykevinb @Risky_Chris @tszzl https://t.co/NUEAawXU4O

[Rawson 🙏 @PonderingDurian]

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[Rawson 🙏 @PonderingDurian]

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[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

I love how every generation seems to find a way to dance to this song.✨💃🕺🎶

[Barry Green @makingthedrop]

@_The_Prophet__ https://t.co/eeILPEHyHm

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

Nebraska HC Matt Rhule took 3 minutes today to talk about mental health following the tragic death of #Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland:

“Our generation of kids — my kids — they all just say, ‘Yeah, I’m fine. I’m straight.’ You really gotta unearth it. … That young man scored a TD just a couple days ago, and to the outside world you’d think he’s at the pinnacle. But he was dealing with something — I don’t know what it was. But I pray for him, him and his family.”

Watch this in full... Incredible message:

[Barry Green @makingthedrop]

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[The Long View @HayekAndKeynes]

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[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This is the best one-paragraph explanation for what's gone wrong with our institutions:

[Delicious Tacos @Delicious_Tacos]

A true story about God:

After I moved into my place in Echo Park, back when I was getting wasted every day, I got license plates in the mail. They belonged to the guy who’d moved out. I knew my landlady would know where he went. And I should say something. But I didn’t. I kept them. Because what if I need these plates. If I get in trouble for my crimes, I can put them on my 1979 Mercedes S Class. Leave town. They’ll think it’s another guy driving Idi Amin’s car.

When I got sober I had to make amends to everyone I’d harmed. A long list. One of them was this guy. If you can’t find the person, or if it would cause harm, you don’t do it. I hoped this was one where I could make “living amends.” Not steal license plates in the future. Instead of tracking down some weirdo who might get pissed off. But I googled him. He had a web site with his picture and email.

I still didn’t do it.

I became the “general service rep” for my Alcoholics Anonymous home group. The AA student government. You sit in nine hour meetings where people who huffed spray paint yell about Robert’s Rules of Order. I went to the meeting. To vote on some horseshit about the pancake breakfast. There he was. I couldn’t believe it. He was the head of student government. Running the pancake breakfast. He didn’t hate it like me. He was helping people.

I said hey man, you don’t know who I am. But I moved in your place after you. I have to make an amends. I stole your license plates. They got mailed to me. I didn’t look for you. I thought if I ever got busted I’d use them to skip town. This was selfish and dishonest of me, etc.

He said yeah, I remember. I never got those plates. So I was driving around without them, hammered. I got pulled over and got a DUI. That’s why I got sober.

[Barry Green @makingthedrop]

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Breaking Away - Trailer (Upscaled HD) (1979) https://t.co/kadam40H2o via @YouTube

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson
A Few Good Men (1992)
Jack only worked on this movie for 10 days and absolutely nailed it. Incredibly, his Colonel Nathan R. Jessup appears in just three scenes consisting of 20 minutes of the 2 hours and 20 minute running time. Jack is amazing.

[Laura Matsue @lauramatsue]

What you most fall in love with in the beginning stages of romance is the projection of your own soul that you have cast onto the other person.

In order for love to survive past this stage, you have to withdraw that projection and learn how to love the person for the mortal, flawed, human they are.

Often people believe they have fallen “out of love” with a person but really they have fallen “out of a projection”.

You expected someone outside of you to live your soul life for you, but really that was the task was a journey you needed to take within the depths of your being all along.

[Barry Green @makingthedrop]

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How Universities Betray the Truth | Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Cornel ... https://t.co/iNMmeFUfvZ via @YouTube

[Barry Green @makingthedrop]

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