paul safford

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@cremieuxrecueil why wouldnt these genes have naturally won out over time(evolution wise) and myostatin disrupting is the norm?

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@davidpattersonx @aurora__company Wont land values increase tho cause it will be one of the few finite resources?

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@CrumpledJumper I wonder how much of this happens in transition vs half court. You would think corner 3's dont happen very often in transition which might contribute to this as well?

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@Sam_Vecenie marshall is a bad shooter, teams did that all last year.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk:

“You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and again to break it. Slowly, then all at once, he did. College-age voters shifted sharply right in the 2024 election.

“That was not all Kirk’s doing, but he was central in laying the groundwork for it. I did not know Kirk and I am not the right person to eulogize him. But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness. In the inaugural episode of his podcast, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California hosted Kirk, admitting that his son was a huge fan. What a testament to Kirk’s project.”

“Kirk and I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It is supposed to be an argument, not a war; it is supposed to be won with words, not ended through bullets. I wanted Kirk to be safe for his sake, but I also wanted him to be safe for mine, and for the sake of our larger shared project. The same is true for Shapiro, for Hoffman, for Hortman, for Thompson, for Trump, for Pelosi, for Whitmer. We are all safe, or none of us are.”

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@realEstateTrent meistertask honestly is great

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@CrumpledJumper has it gone up on average to meet those early year outliers? (assuming yes) or have the outliers come back down?

[Denver Cyclones Basketball @DBA_Hoops]

Congrats @CoachFrost_ !

[Haralabos Voulgaris @haralabob]

Absurd.

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@orangebook how about social media?

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@hubermanlab @lexfridman If 1 dictatorship put all their resources, focus and energy into following advice from AI what would the result be? i.e. North Korea goes all in and takes all advise from GPT. I appreciate you both. Bless.

[Anatomy of a Fighter @WillHarrisAOAF]

There was this other fighter in the UFC, that had an up and down career like 30 year old Kevin Lee, who eventually went on to become a UFC legend. At one point of career, he had 4 losses and only 2 wins in a 6 fight stretch "TWICE". That 33 year old former champion has a name.

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@rebelEducator Kinda surprised it's not more teachers(me), I find your posts exceptionally insightful!!

[Bryce Haase @Bryce_Haase8]

The 0-3 when Jokic scores 40 vs 13-1 when he doesn’t is also silly

The Nuggets Offensive Rating when Jokic scores 40 in the Playoffs is 121.9. When he doesn’t score 40, it’s 120.4

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@JADubin5 Yes! Facts!

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Why write an essay when you can type a few words and have AI generate one for you? Why write an email when AI can auto-respond for you with all the typical pleasantries and talking points?

While AI doing these things for you is likely to happen, it’s not necessarily a good thing. Even when these tools exist, they are not a replacement for writing.

Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Importantly, writing is also the process by which you figure it out.

Writing about something teaches you about what you know, what you don’t know, and how to think. Writing about something is one of the best ways to learn about it. Writing is not just a vehicle to share ideas with others but also a way to understand them better yourself.

Paul Graham put it this way: “A good writer doesn’t just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing.”

There is another important element to writing that often gets overlooked. Writing requires the compression of an idea. When done poorly, compression removes insights. When done well, compression keeps the insights and removes the rest. Compression requires both thinking and understanding, which is one reason writing is so important.

Great writing requires you to position your idea in a way that will resonate with the reader. Average writers start with what they want to say without considering how it will land with the reader. Great writers understand the journey starts with what the reader desires. Think of the difference as starting at the beginning or the end of a maze. When you start at the beginning, you have to convince people the path is the right one. When you start at the end, they already know you’re taking them where they want to go.

In a world of average writing available on demand, every organization will start communicating like a big one. The signal-to-noise ratio will change for the worse. If you’ve ever read a government communication, you understand how a lot of words can say nothing. Bandwidth will be filled with common ideas, verbose communication, and ambiguous jargon. In the future, information will become even more of a substitute for thought than it already is.

Many things can be done by tools that write for you, but they won’t help you learn to think or understand a problem with deep fluency. And you need deep fluency to solve hard problems.

A world of common thinking available on demand will tempt people to outsource their thinking and disproportionately reward people who don’t. In the future, clear thinking will become more valuable, not less.

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@GothamChess na lakers vs warriors

[Ball is Psych @BallisPsych]

“Your work towards a goal is not a failure, it’s steps to success.”
— @Giannis_An34

#BeyondWinning

[Mo Dakhil @MoDakhil_NBA]

Ban the charge, rotate over and try to play defense instead of just getting in the way. Being a traffic cone is not playing defense.

[paul safford @paulsaff]

@HalfCourtHoops my thoughts as well lol