Ryan Vanjoff

Husband, father, coach, volunteer. Interested in leadership & hockey. I ignore anonymous accts.

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

Maybe I am getting old, but when I saw this, it made so much sense. Be well, have a great weekend...

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

This seems like a Canadian opportunity

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Global LNG trade map. If prices are high the exporters benefit and folks in the importing nations pay big bucks. Have a look at which importers see their gas travel through maritime choke points. Great map to ponder when thinking about geopolitics.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

“Saskatchewan’s exports have grown from $19.8-billion in 2007 to more than $45-billion by 2024. It now exports to 160 countries around the world. Nine of the markets it supplies are worth more than $1-billion a year. Provincial exports per capita are double the national average. And it weathered a year that would have crippled most territories built on the back of commodity exports. In 2025, the provincial gross domestic product reached an all-time high of $83.6-billion.”
Now watch out with a new commodities upswing 🤑

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@sjkelly1 Next step, killing all the sparrows.

[BOE Report @BOEReport]

Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada hits full capacity two years after upgrade https://t.co/8mX9c52rip

[BOE Report @BOEReport]

Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada hits full capacity two years after upgrade https://t.co/8mX9c52rip

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@Big_G_09 Can you imagine how mean and nasty Detroit River walleye would be??

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

JUST IN: OpenAI says it has confidentially filed to go public

"We expect it to leak so we're just announcing it." Fair.

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

Tony Fernandez

[Vinny’s Corner @VinnysCorner1]

Age yourself….

Name the second basemen from your favorite MLB team growing up.

I’ll start: Chuck Knoblauch

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@DimitrisSoudas @Martyupnorth Ask any Canadian trying to sell alcohol, construction & mining services, health-related services, professional services, transportation, financial services, language-sensitive consumer products or government procurement into La Belle province.

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@DimitrisSoudas @Martyupnorth It is incredibly disingenuous to suggest Alberta (or any other Canadian) businesses have access to the Quebec market. Que is incredibly thorough and inventive with non-tariff barriers.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@TurtlelakeWater East Side yesterday

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

This is a modern day Teddy Roosevelt. “"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly... hot n ready…

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

10/10 pizza review

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

Relevant in Canada

[Tom Moyer 🇺🇸 @TomMoyerUT]

Please stop demanding that everything be a jobs program.

The purpose of data centers is data. The purpose of electric power generation is power. They create jobs indirectly by delivering the services they deliver. <end rant>

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@nernzi19 When men were men

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

Canada’s options

[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@mattgurney Former Edmonton Oiler and bilingual Governor General Georges Laraque @GeorgesLaraque

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@BumfOnline @PolitlcsUK @bronzebarbarian

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

@BumfOnline @EuroBriefing Highly regulated hunting and gathering?

[Ryan Vanjoff @RyanVanjoff]

I could go for an Interregnum period right now

[Today In History @URDailyHistory]

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