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Rick Rubin has low heart rate variability.

So he looked up everything that raises it, picked one technique, and started doing it every day.

It worked.

The technique: coherence breathing. 10 to 20 minutes a day, at least once, sometimes twice.

Now he and @hubermanlab do it together on camera so you can follow along:

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"Selling your winners and holding your losers is like cutting your flowers and watering the weeds."

Peter Lynch ran Magellan from 1977 to 1990 at about 29% a year. His other line that still prints money: far more is lost preparing for corrections than in the corrections themselves.

Economists have predicted 33 of the last 11 recessions. What he actually wants you to know about a stock (TCAF / Josh Brown):

https://t.co/Zkmw3jfHGT

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@AJA_Cortes No man, I can't wait for 1,000 ai generated vlogs of flying business class. Super valuable stuff.

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At age 30, monthly chance of conception is about 20%.

By 35–36 it is 11–12%. At 38, about 5%. At 40+, about 3%. None of those are zero. The drop is still real.

Dr. Natalie Crawford on why fertility is a health readout (not just a baby plan), and the 90-day window that actually matters for eggs and sperm (Huberman Lab):

https://t.co/lPP3pmkY4F

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Study game theory.

Hawks, Dove, Nash Equilibrium.

Will help you understand high and low trust cultures, tribalism, etc.

Very hard to fix a low trust one after a hawk only strategy has been triggered and embedded.

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Colonization as a Service will become a thing

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

The British lost the will to rule others and then they lost the will to rule themselves

A common historical story. Something for those who frivolously talk about America walking away from its dominant global position should think about

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When grip strength drops about 10% from your baseline, Jeff Cavaliere says skip the gym that day.

A cheap bathroom scale works: squeeze it with both hands and note the number.

He trained the Mets and has been publishing fitness protocols for 15 years. Readiness beats ego.

(Huberman Lab Essentials)

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@AJA_Cortes If increased demand no longer outstrips increased efficiency, the system collapses/bubble pops.

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@TyrantsMuse Here for the sophon reference

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Jim Sinegal's line that Jensen Huang lives by: if you are not spending 90% of your time teaching, you are not doing your job.

Jensen runs Nvidia like a classroom. Whiteboard first. Get the point across in four sentences so it spreads.

"Strategy is not words. Strategy is actions."

(Founders #403, David Senra)

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@ThomBrady5 Colonization as a Service

CaaS

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Claim two benefits and people trust you less for both.

In Zhang & Fishbach's goal-dilution work, adding an extra reason to believe cut perceived effectiveness by about 12%. Five Guys sells burgers and fries. That is the menu.

Richard Shotton's other 10 psychology tricks from brands that actually use them (Modern Wisdom):

https://t.co/fGspTzvghM

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You burn far fewer calories in a workout than the machine says.

Wearables and gym equipment can exaggerate expenditure by 20–30%. And NEAT (the fidgeting, walking, standing you do all day) can be 5–20% of total burn. Burn 500 in a session and your body may quietly cut 500 of NEAT later.

Dr. Andy Galpin's fix for that, and why most people "plateau" because they never had a program (Rich Roll):

https://t.co/BzmeI3b0x3

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Average 40-, 50- and 60-year-olds are losing about 1% of their muscle mass a year.

Six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates says they need 45 minutes in the gym, twice a week. Eight to ten exercises covering the body.

His 6-minute interval protocol (1–1.5 min warm-up, 20 seconds all-out, 1 min easy, × 3) is, per the studies he cites, basically as effective as 45 minutes of steady-state cardio.

(Huberman Lab)

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Best fruit in the world

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Andy Stumpf and Chadd Wright challenged each other to get phone screen time under 1 hour a day.

Wright stalled around 90 minutes. Stumpf got down to 30 by moving everything onto his laptop.

This is a man with two wingsuit world records.

(Huberman Lab)

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@JoshuaLisec Yes, ironically

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@JoshuaLisec You could not imagine the number of shitlibs in Israel, at least until the most communist of them all were slaughtered by Hamas. It changed minds.

American liberal Jews are voting for their own destruction, and think they’re doing the opposites.

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Rick Rubin splits creative work into 4 phases, and deadlines only help in the last one.

During experimentation, a deadline can shut down discovery too early. At completion, it forces you to commit and finish.

The other two phases, and why he says "you can doubt your way to a great work" (Huberman Lab Essentials):

https://t.co/hY9ZZUDTAn

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@capeandcowell @ThomBrady5 Colonization as a Service

CAAS