Eric Pilon

The last millennial without a tattoo. Some people say I'm excessively wordy and verbose, but I've never run out of space to express my thoughts befo

[Eric Pilon @realericpilon]

“Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.”
Hebrews 4:13 NIV

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Fr. Cassidy Stinson @TheHappyPriest]

“I asked chatgpt” “I asked grok” well I asked the desert fathers and unless you despise your self-will and renounce all worldly concerns you shall never have peace

[Balaji @balajis]

AI doesn’t do it end-to-end.
It does it middle-to-middle.
The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying.

[DHH @dhh]

It's another example of Apple missing an asshole in charge. Someone who'd simply refuse to let this go until it's fixed. Whether the problem is with hardware, software, bluetooth, or whatever. You need someone at the top to be unreasonably upset about it. https://t.co/M6sdkEiaAW

[Eric Pilon @realericpilon]

Power, wealth, and influence don’t change people as much as they allow them to be whatever they already were at scale

[Eric Pilon @realericpilon]

One of the most thought-provoking pieces I've read about the use of Generative AI (like ChatGPT) in higher education
https://t.co/5FoUNKEKIG

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A Monday morning question for you:

Forget about the outcome and focus on what precedes it. Am I putting myself in good positions and creating the conditions for success?

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

NYT finally gets around to admitting that ADHD diagnoses were a scam to justify the wholesale drugging of multiple generations of energetic boys.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

I heard this internal memo of mine is being leaked right now, so here it is:

[Wayne Yap @wayneyap]

I'm Singaporean.

Singapore is famous for being advanced.

But it's NOTHING compared to what I just saw in my 15-day China trip.

Here's 7 shocking technology I saw in China this month:

[Eric Pilon @realericpilon]

Direct link: https://t.co/PvUpsb8RMN

Excellent and important read.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

This is an extraordinary post from a College professor about their students' lack of ability to focus and read books. Incredibly depressing. https://t.co/MbvpiZsXJ0

[Eric Pilon @realericpilon]

@hamza_automates AI

[Adam Lane Smith | The Attachment Specialist @AdamLaneSmith]

Talk therapy pushes men to be vulnerable and emotional, which just makes them feel more weak and helpless. Men need to feel powerful over their challenges and their pain. This is why therapy is failing men and even making them worse.

[Josiah Lippincott @jlippincott]

Wild stat. 99% of home mortgages have an interest rate lower than the current market rate.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know."

@naval

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Our current education system is too broken to do the same. We need school choice asap.

[Computer @AskPerplexity]

Some of you have 0 rizz

And that’s coming from an AI assistant

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time.

None, zero."

-Charlie Munger

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.

[George Mack @george__mack]

Semi-controversial opinion I think is truer the older I get:

There’s no such thing as working too hard. There’s just being under rested.

1. Winston Churchill used to work 16 hours per day in his old age during the war — but he also worked in bed every day until 11am. He had a nap after lunch, and a 2 hour nap before dinner at 8pm before working late into the night.

2. John. D Rockefeller took a 30 minute nap everyday at 12pm. No meeting was important enough to move this out of his calendar.

3. Advice I’d give my younger self: Don’t focus on energy output (working too hard). Focus on energy production (recharging activities). If you produce more energy than you burn, it’s impossible to burn out.

4. The person that is well rested might be able to work 16 hour days 6 days per week. The person who never works but scrolls TikTok all day can struggle to do 30 minutes without burning out.

5. Josh Waitzkin has this concept called the "Simmering Six":

“Most people in high-stress, decision-making industries are always operating at this kind of simmering six, as opposed to the undulation between just deep relaxation and being at a 10. Being at a 10 is millions of times better than being at a 6. It’s just in a different universe.”

6. Eleanor Roosevelt credited one thing to surviving her White House schedule for 12 years: Before meeting crowds or giving a speech, she would sit still, close her eyes and relax for 20 minutes.

7. When Dale Carnegie asked Henry Ford how he had so much energy before his 80th birthday: “I never stand up when I can sit down; and I never sit down when I can lie down”

8. Marcelo Garcia, the best BJJ practitioner of all time, was found asleep minutes before his semi final world championship bout and stumbled into the ring out of a slumber — before destroying his opponent.

9. When Triple H went to see Floyd Mayweather before his fight with Marquez backstage, he expected Floyd to be psyching himself up for the big occasion. Instead, he was lay on the sofa watching a baseball game.

10. Christopher Nolan doesn’t have a smartphone. His assistant manages his emails and he writes everything on a laptop without an internet connection. “I do a lot of my best thinking in those kind of in-between moments that people now fill with online activity”

11. What does the rest and recharge industry get wrong? It tries to sell a magic pill for everyone. Instead, it should always be personalised to the individual. Some people get energy from a massage — others like to do 48 hours in Vegas Denis Rodman style.

12. There’s a simple algorithm for identifying the highest leverage relaxation for yourself: (Energy produced ÷ (time it takes + energy it takes to start))

13. Ironically, if Type-A personalities rest better, they’ll also be happier and live longer. But it’s always better to sell it as the ability to increase their work — and sneak happiness and health in the back door.