Ryan Pramberg

Jesus follower, Husband, Father

Financial Advisor - be generous

[Chris Powers @fortworthchris]

The way someone uses AI tells you a lot about them.

"Mark Cuban (@mcuban) has a quote I wish were mine. Some people use AI so they can learn everything, and some use AI so they don't have to learn anything."

Chris Koerner (@mhp_guy) is firmly in the first camp. And he says he can spot the people who aren't.

"At my church I hear talks now and I can tell. That's Opus 4.7. And I think that's a shame."

His own rule is simple. AI shouldn't save you time. It should make the work better.

"If I have three hours to build a lesson, I'm still going to spend three hours. I'll use AI the whole time, and it'll be far better. I could be done in three minutes. But I don't."

In this clip, Chris Koerner on using AI to raise your standard instead of lowering it.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.

Write that down. 🦋

[Fazir Ali @KingFazir]

Watching fans from all over the world experience America has been one of the coolest parts of this World Cup.

People are losing their minds over things most of us don’t even think about anymore:

- Free chips and salsa.
- Buc-ee’s.
- Massive grocery stores.
- Six-lane highways.
- Air conditioning everywhere.
- Endless refills.

Meanwhile, the tournament is being played in world-class stadiums that were already built. No rushed construction. No billion-dollar vanity projects.

It’s hard to ignore what visitors keep saying: the infrastructure is incredible, the people are welcoming, and the scale of everything is unlike anything they’ve seen before.

Sometimes it takes seeing your country through someone else’s eyes to appreciate what we have.

We take a lot of it for granted.

[Michael Fiore - Garden Center @Michaelfiore]

One of the most incredible aspects of the World Cup in the United States is what we DIDN’T have to do to prepare for it.

Qatar built multiple brand new stadiums, a metro system, roads, hotels, and entire districts.

South Africa built new stadiums, parking, etc.

Brazil spent billions on stadium and transit projects.

Russia built and rebuilt venues across the country.

Meanwhile, the U.S. was like: “We’re good.”

Like, we modified the playing surface in some stadiums and that was it.

The sport venue infrastructure in the US mogs every other country on earth and it’s not even close.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

The Scots took over Boston bars and sang "Take Me Home, Country Roads"

[Paul Graham @paulg]

"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."

— Thomas Sowell

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Morgan Housel will never use AI to write. To him, it defeats the whole purpose of writing.

"The process of writing is what gets the author thinking. When they write a book, they didn't have all that knowledge in their head. They started out with one brave sentence, and then that taught them something.

If you're using any kind of LLM to do any of the broad structure for you, you're not actually thinking. You stripped out everything that was good about writing."

He'll use it for research, as a "Google on steroids." But even then he argues that the research process is different:

"When you're doing the reps of research, it's gonna hit you in a different way."

[David Perell Clips @PerellClips]

Academics write for each other, not for people.

Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort."

"There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times?

It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Most people who are afraid of getting married and having kids are actually spending way too much time online reading from everyone but the happily married who are living private lives.

In doubt, pay attention to people who are minding their own business without trying to convince the rest of the world that their choice is the correct choice.

The happy people that you want to learn from are never loud, they don’t need any validation, they will only whisper to those who are ready to listen.

[Ryan Pramberg @ryan_pramberg]

Well said.

My favorite on this is the "Mundanity of Excellence" about early 80's Olympic swimmers.

It's 100 small things without fanfare before James Clear popularized "get 1% better daily."

Be present A LOT.

[WellBuiltStyle @WellBuiltStyle]

This same analogy can even be extended to your family life with kids.

Everybody wants “quality time” with their kids.

But you can only get quality through quantity. That means lots of time spent together. All the mundane stuff. All the thankless things you do day to day as a parent with and for your kids - you need all that if you want capture some of those quality moments.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

Finessed by a little black mirror.

“You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world.” — @theJayAlto

[David Perell @david_perell]

I’m making a TV show!

Here’s why: When I was moving to New York, I told my leasing agent that I wanted a place with charm and character. She told me that if that’s what I want, I need to look for apartments built before World War II.

“So you’re saying we’ve basically built nothing with charm and character in the past 80 years?”

“That’s right.”

This is happening all over the world. The same boring and generic style has spread to the entire world. 150 years ago, new buildings in Shanghai looked nothing like the ones in Rome or Tokyo or San Francisco or Buenos Aires. The architecture of each place was as varied as the landscape itself.

And it’s not just the sameness of the modern world that has me scratching my head, but also the carelessness behind so much of what’s built these days. We boast about the triumphs of technology and how advanced we are as a civilization, but why has our built environment regressed so much? Shouldn’t we use our wealth to make our streets more charming and delightful?

There’s lots of talk about how we’ve polluted the natural world, but what about how we’ve polluted the man-made world? We’ve filled our streets with ugly railings, benches, lampposts, and clutter.

We assume these things have to be boring, but they don’t. Good design can make everything, even bins and bus stops, charming. New things can be prettier than old things. The first step is believing it’s possible.

Something has changed. We’ve taken a dramatic turn, and the majority of people prefer what we used to build to what we build today. Just look at where people take photos. In New York it’s the steps of brownstones in the West Village; in San Francisco it’s the old Victorian homes; in London there’s tourists galore in front of those iconic red phone booths which remain on the streets, even though they don’t work anymore, because they’re so nicely designed that people like having them there.

All this is what inspired me to make a TV show.

First: a pilot episode which now has 5.4 million views, 23,000 comments, and 379,000 likes. It also has 241,000 YouTube subscribers from that one video, which is just about unheard of for a new channel.

And now: a full-on, six-episode series.

But when I pitched Hollywood on the idea, they said cultural series of this sort don’t work: “The only kinds of documentaries that get funded are about sports, music, nature, or true crime.” Huh? How can that be?

People are interested in culture. The problem is most culture documentaries are terrible. They fail in one of two ways: (1) people dumb down the ideas in patronizing ways, or (2) people use so much jargon and high-falutin language that it becomes boring and inaccessible.

This is why I’m producing this work. It’ll be called The Modern World, and it’ll be a tour of art & architecture through the eyes of Sheehan Quirke, who goes by @culturaltutor.

It’s our ambition to do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world. To use cinematic imagery and simple language in a way that everybody can understand. And to be rigorous, but not in a way that feels like school or your know-it-all friend who never stops talking.

The potential here is huge. Architecture impacts literally every person on earth. What we build shapes the moods of people and the spirit of our culture.

We’ll film in six countries (the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States) to produce six 30-minute episodes which we hope to publish on a major streaming service. We’re currently in the fundraising stage, and production begins once we’ve raised the money.

It’s our mission to help people see the world more clearly, and in turn, make the world a more charming and delightful place to live in.

[BronMuse @BronMuse]

With every season that passes, I realize even more how insane this really is.

[George Mack @george__mack]

The high agency triangle

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Counterpoint:

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

LeBron has now played 295 playoff games.

In terms of GameScore, his performance tonight ranks 192nd out of 295.

29-13-6 with an insanely clutch steal & 3 pointer is not even a top 190 playoff game for LeBron James.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

On page twenty-six of “The Billionaire Tax” proposal in California, it explains how the state legislature can convert from a Billionaire Tax to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.

They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.

Intelligence test for you: if this was meant to just target Billionaires, why did they write this in?

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.

“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”

“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”

“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”

“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”

“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”

“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

[Nebraska Men's Basketball @HuskerMBB]

The nation's best resides in Lincoln.

Coach Hoiberg is your Associated Press National Coach of the Year.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Roger Scruton has an incredible quote on why tradition is a duty:

“We do not merely study the past: we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship…Things fought for and died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born.”

Let’s not squander our inheritance. We have great work to do.