Markos Darrows

Father. Garage gym. BJJ. Studying businesses. Building something of my own. Thinking out loud along the way.

[Markos Darrows @markosdarrows]

@theaaron @ChatGPT @ryan_doser13 What do you think makes it worth the $100?

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@DavidPawlan Done!

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@Bow_B4_BJJ Kimura traps are one of those things I ignore until someone snaps one on me on the mat. Then I suddenly care.

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@joshstrength Confidence from receipts, not pep talks!!
Take manageable pressure, raise it slowly, and you earn proof you can handle it.

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@realpeteyb123 You’re right on scarcity vs infinite AI. The next layer is agents becoming the users of crypto while we use the agents. Fixed supply plus machine demand is next level price

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@StrengthDebates Tom Haviland takes all 4 spots

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@Bow_B4_BJJ Respect for posting the finish. Watching tape like this will just make you better. Back to work is the whole game.

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@jvisserlabs Are the crypto vids only on the subscription platform?

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Same reason I think a lot of schooling trains people to become good worker bees: sit where you’re told, consume what you’re given, repeat the approved answer.

Algorithms can do the same thing to adults. Eventually you stop directing your own attention and start letting something else shape you.

Creating is one of the few ways to push back. It forces you to have taste, judgment and a point of view of your own.

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@joshstrength I think about this a lot.

A lot of modern mass schooling borrowed from the Prussian model: punctuality, obedience, loyalty to the system, one approved answer.

Good grades prove you learned the rules. They don’t prove you learned how to think.

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@benbarkerfit It’s 1,000% a luxury. Now I just need household robots to hit the market so they can clear the toys off my lunge path before training.

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Wild arc for Greece.

A decade ago the conversation was sovereign debt and whether it could stay in the euro. Now Athens is trying to become a home for hedge funds.

Maybe this can turn into real jobs, Greeks coming home, expertise and an actual financial ecosystem.

Build more of that.

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Another banger training session with @hubermanlab and The Shadow. I love seeing these two get together.

I’ve been using a lot of Yates-style, low-volume/high-effort accessory work in my garage programming and these videos are always a good reality check.

It’s easy to write “to failure” in a program. It’s another thing to watch what Dorian actually means by it.

I usually think I’m training pretty hard. Then I watch one of these and realize there’s probably another gear I’m not consistently getting to.

Andrew Huberman Trains Legs With 6x Mr Olympia Dorian Yates https://t.co/mm4oTMMxfv via @YouTube

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It’s such a repetition heavy skill. You can understand something intellectually pretty quickly and still need hundreds of rounds before your body gets the memo.

I wish i had started younger but I’m not sure I had the patience, humility, or perspective to actually learn it well. Youth does occasionally arrive with defective software.

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@levelsio I’ll have to give Skyr a shot. I’m firmly in the Fage camp, but I’m also Greek, so admittedly there may be some cultural thumb on the scale

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@GSPPodOfficial @GeorgesStPierre Might be tough these days but would love to hear a Rickson Gracie convo

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@BigMikeTalks01 You won’t. The fact that you’re already noticing it and mentally filing it under “don’t become that guy” means you’re safe.

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@george__mack Thanks for sharing this George. Good reminder.

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Great article, and a good reminder.

BJJ has probably been one of the best ways for me to understand this idea of unclenching.

As a white belt, everything is stiff. You’re gripping too hard, forcing positions, trying to hold onto everything.

As you get better, you start realizing how much easier things work when you relax, move, and adapt.

Bruce Lee had it right: be water.

[Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller]

After months of writing, 'How to Unclench' is finally live!

It's an interactive essay packed with stories, science & guided practices to help you unclench.

→ https://t.co/UTYPJkkrKH