David Resnick

Husband, dad, and land developer.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

THIS:

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Assume good things are still ahead. You are not behind. You are not too late. You are not disqualified by your past. One new season can change the entire story. Keep showing up with belief. The best chapters are often written after the hardest ones.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

A majority of Americans now believe buying a home is a better option than renting, marking the first time since 2023, per NAHB

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked by a room full of Stanford students what single trait separates people who change the world from people who don't. Everyone expected him to say intelligence. Or work ethic. Or vision.

He said pain tolerance.

The room wasn't sure if he was joking. He wasn't. He explained that intelligence is common. Ambition is common. Even good ideas are relatively common. What is genuinely rare is the ability to absorb punishment day after day, year after year, and keep building anyway.

He said most people he's met who are smarter than him quit after the first real failure. Not because they weren't talented. Because the pain of failure exceeded their tolerance for it. They found something easier and redirected their intelligence there.

He said the entire history of SpaceX is just a story about absorbing explosions, literally and financially, and refusing to interpret them as signals to stop.

Nobody writes that on a motivational poster. Nobody puts "pain tolerance" on their LinkedIn profile. But it's the actual filter. Not who can dream the biggest. Who can bleed the longest.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.”

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

“Do what you love and the money will follow".

I ate a whole pizza, took a nap, and watched TV.

Now we wait.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I'm in love with this sentence:

“If you can overthink the worst why can't you overthink the best.”

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Your 90-year-old self would give anything to be where you are right now. Lift weights, walk, eat healthy, and sleep well. You are living your golden years right now. You're younger than you think you are. Don't waste it.

[Gary Brecka @thegarybrecka]

If you're overwhelmed by health advice...

Ignore 90% of it.

Focus on these five things first:
• Lift weights.
• Walk every day.
• Sleep 7-9 hours.
• Eat enough protein.
• Spend time outside.

Master the fundamentals before chasing optimization. The basics are still undefeated.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There's an old Chinese saying that I love:

“The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”

[David Resnick @resnickdavidj]

@amydeng_ I missed out on your appointment slots. Would you mind trying a model I built that is in Beta testing? I would appreciate your feedback. https://t.co/e669sVDRLk is the site and if you DM me I will send you a code so it is free.

[Tony Robbins @TonyRobbins]

Even if it's not true, if we focus on it, we'll feel it. If we imagine it, we'll feel it.

If we want control of our lives, we've got to decide what we focus on.

FOCUS = FEELING

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A reminder that most of what we worry about never actually happens

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

A programmer's wife tells him: "Go to the store and buy a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get a dozen." He comes back with 12 gallons of milk. She asks why. He says, "They had eggs."

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Richard Feynman, in his iconic 1981 BBC Horizon interview "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out", delivers one of the most liberating takes on uncertainty ever captured on film:

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose... It doesn't frighten me."

No panic in the face of the unknown—no need for absolute truths or cosmic meaning. Just pure, joyful curiosity about the vast mystery we're all in. He even muses that it's "much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong."

This 37-second gem from the classic documentary is Feynman at his most profound: embracing doubt as freedom, not fear.

Clip from BBC Horizon 1981—timeless wisdom from a Nobel physicist who found endless pleasure in the questions themselves.

In an era drowning in "certainties," does Feynman's calm acceptance of mystery feel like relief... or a challenge? Does it free you up, or unsettle you?

Your thoughts—share below.

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

I'm not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written these books. It does not know-how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is.

That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.

— Albert Einstein

[Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross @alexwg]

https://t.co/N2AwpI9f8m

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Petri dish of human brain cells grown on a microchip has learned to play DOOM.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

This was what running through Golden Gate Park looked like at 99. In San Francisco in 1966, Larry Lewis ran six miles every morning, rain or shine, while the city was still asleep.

Lewis later worked as a waiter at the St. Francis Hotel and remained active well past 100. On his 102nd birthday, he celebrated by running 100 yards in 17.3 seconds, faster than the year before. He joked that the improvement came from wearing proper running shoes instead of street shoes.

Raised on a Navajo reservation in Arizona, Lewis left home at 15 to join the P. T. Barnum Circus as an acrobat and aerialist. He claimed to have worked for decades as Harry Houdini’s assistant and lived to the age of 106, passing away on February 1, 1974.

Moments that will restore your faith in humanity: https://t.co/60XnAFPt3Y