Ryan Gilliland

“The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.” -Naval

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Cloud Baseball @cloudbaseball]

Kansas JUCO at the top! T-Birds move to #2 in the country!

[Soren Petro @SorenPetro]

Something to consider with the design of Kauffman Stadium.

[Luke Dorris @LukeDorris]

After this morning, the number of severe + tornado warnings for the KC area is in a league of its own (year to date)

[Matt Swaim @mattswaim]

Congratulations to Kansas City Royals and Team USA star @BwittJr on receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation and gratitude to @FrZackTOR for administering it, Baseball and Easter are metaphysically intertwined

[Balaji @balajis]

AI doom is unlikely because economically useful AI is prompted AI.

That is: every single AI agent is programmed to do exactly what you ask, on command. So: digital AI is built for the leash. It is fitted for the harness from birth.

This goes doubly true for physical AI. Chinese Communists are building most of the robots. And they are only going to create robot slaves, not robot gods. They don’t let their humans step out of line, so they aren’t going to let their AIs either.

This is still a problem — the Chinese drone armada will be a fearsome thing — but it is the problem of a billion Chinese AI slaves, not a single Western AGI god.

[Jon Gruden @BarstoolGruden]

That's how you sing the national anthem!

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space.

In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth.

In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense, which results in six times more irradiance than on Earth. So you don't need a battery.

The cooling in these data centers is incredibly complicated. Space cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite.

The only thing faster than a laser going through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. Link satellites with lasers, and you have a faster and more coherent network than any data center on Earth."

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

What you can never change:
1. The past
2. The world
3. Other people

What you can always change:
1. Your attitude
2. Your assumptions
3. Your beliefs

[Tropical Cowboy of Danger @FlynonymousWX]

A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa

In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.

[Ryan Gilliland @Ryan__Gilliland]

@SSJWHB @JakeGuti

[FOST @GeorgeFoster72]

Uncle Brady Billy

[Golf Digest @GolfDigest]

Scottie Scheffler just gave one of the best (and deepest) press conference answers ever heard.

[Brian Maierhofer @brianmaierhofer]

Huberman's newest episode completely changed how I think about the vagus nerve.

Turns out it controls mood, learning, HRV, and brain alertness (not just relaxation).

Here's the neuroscience behind it: 🧵

(+ 3 scientifically-verified stimulation techniques)

[Cloud County Athletics @CCCCsports]

Thank you to all of our sophomore baseball players for their years of hard work and dedication to the Cloud County baseball program! 🖤💛

The T-Birds have improved to 44-15, the highest single-season win total for the program in the last 36 years! ⚾️

And we're not done yet. 💪

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

C.S. Lewis will just drop this and move on

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first."

@naval

[O.W. Root @owroot]

One of the most important things you can realize is what you can control and what you can’t control.

Then act accordingly.

[Cloud County Athletics @CCCCsports]

Record breaking win for Coach 🫡🤝

No. 2️⃣5️⃣9️⃣‼️

Today's 7-6 victory over No. 1 Weatherford College makes Eric Gilliland the all-time winningest coach in Cloud County baseball history, passing Greg Brummett! ⚾️

#CloudBaseball | #BackTheBirds

[Geoffrey Miller @gmiller]

There are guys out there.

Guys who just quietly make something of themselves, and attract a great woman, and have a whole bunch of kids. And then spend the rest of their long, quiet, contented lives being fiercely devoted to their grateful kids and their dozens of grandkids.

They're just playing a completely different game than the rest of us clowns.

We get caught up in our little money games, dominance games, status games, prestige games. Our credentialism, careerism, and consumerism. Our follower counts, citation counts, or Series B valuations. Our sad little skirmishes in the culture wars. Our thousand varieties of engagement bait and social signaling. Our bottomless thirst for social and sexual validation.

Meanwhile, those guys are just keeping their heads down and building their mini-dynasties.

Maybe they end up owning the second most popular Kia dealership in the tri-state area, or work as senior logistics manager for a trucking company down in Springfield, or do the tax accounting for local businesses. They have no pretensions of shaping national politics or world events; they just guide their neighborhoods and cities to grow a little better in a hundred small but significant ways. Their jobs are just a means to an end, and the end is their family and their community. And their wives and kids admire them for it, decade after decade after decade.

Those guys won't even see this message. They're too busy to spend time on social media. Even if they're on X, their follower count is basically their extended family, their friends and neighbors, and a few folks from their congregation.

But God bless them, I say. They know what's up.

They're playing the long game.

While the rest of us are stumbling around trying to discover the meaning of life.