roberto

cream soda capital

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

We lost the art of having friends come over just to hang out

[roberto @scottwilly86]

@WurtDotApp @GreenTextRepost @shrek2fanboy My mom just up and lost it one day and said she’s tired of doing my laundry around 14 or so. I remember doing my first load and thinking “that’s it?” I waited patiently for a while until the hard part came and it just never did. Couldn’t ever grasp what her fuss was about

[Stephen Stone - PhD Tricknologist @Stephen19718352]

Imagine like 1880 and your brain is so pure that a guy playing the fiddle around a campfire juices your dopamine so hard you literally get up and start dancing.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

if standing up for yourself burns a bridge, then fuck that bridge.

[Vladimir S. | Officer's Notes @officer_secret]

Fun fact: Humans are supersensitive to the smell of rain (the substance geosmin) - the nose needs only 5 molecules per trillion.

For comparison, we detect this smell 200,000 times better than a great white shark senses blood in water.

Why does a human need such a powerful rain detector? What were our cave-dwelling ancestors so afraid of?

What kind of creature came with the rain? Is it still here?!

[ً @artfuIchaos]

If i had the mindset I have now, I wouldn’t have made those mistakes. but if I hadn’t made those mistakes, I wouldn’t have the mindset i have now.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

This couple makes 2.5x what her parents did and still can’t give their children the same lifestyle. Whatever the official inflation numbers say, families are experiencing a real decline in purchasing power.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Before we had silicon chips, we had needle and thread.

In the 1960s, NASA didn’t ‘upload’ code; they sewed it.

To get Apollo 11 to the moon, skilled weavers (often called ‘Little Old Ladies’) literally hand-stitched software into physical objects.

[aether @bluewdrift]

You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.

[Just a Dude Who Invests @DudeWhoInvests]

Financial advisors putting your money in an index fund for you

[toxic king @toxicking]

I love women who are sweet for no reason, soul just as pretty as your face

[aether @bluewdrift]

the best thing you can do for yourself is actively increase your surface area for luck to hit you. go outside, try new cafes, museums, events, take a new route home, speak to people, ask questions, side quest. the more you do, the more serendipity and synchronicity will find you.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

This is actually hilarious

[kartik @sathaxe]

Social Capital™️

I have never seen the plight of my generation articulated so well.

This is the core issue we must solve, we must provide abundant social capital to the next generation - using the levers of politics and private industry - or humanity as we know it will end.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

A nonprofit bought 638 acres of private land bordering Great Smoky Mountains National Park so it can be transferred to the National Park Service and protected from development.

The land is called the Oliver Tract, near Townsend and Cades Cove, and it’s being called one of the largest potential additions to the park in decades.

Pretty awesome.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The average US home is now more unaffordable to the average American than at any point in history, per CBS

[roberto @scottwilly86]

@ronin21btc I’ve been seriously considering just taking off work a couple of months and going to the Amazon to do an Ayahuasca trip with a local tribe

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1918: they sold radioactive water as a health tonic. It was radium, and it dissolved men's jaws.

1898: they sold heroin as a children's cough syrup. It was heroin.

1863: they sold cocaine wine as a daily pick-me-up. Popes and presidents put their names to it.

1946: they sold cigarettes on a doctor's recommendation. Whole campaigns ran on which brand physicians preferred.

1960s: they sold margarine as the heart-healthy fat. It was loaded with the trans fat that actually stops hearts.

Every one of these came with an expert's blessing and total confidence.

The people telling you today which fat to fear are the institutional descendants of the ones who put radium in your water and a doctor's face on a cigarette packet.

"The experts recommend it" has a body count going back a century.

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

Nobody works harder than a lazy, ambitious guy. He wants to finish as fast as possible so he can get back to his natural state of doing absolutely nothing.

[Mind and Glory 🎖 @mindandglory]

Study the men who got quieter after success, not louder that’s how you know it’s real.