Shana Echevarría 🪖

🪖Builder of warfighter resilience in the AF Chaplain Corps. Strengthening trust, teams, and operations. 🌅Rise 🏗️Build 🙏🏼Bless.

[Shana Echevarría 🪖 @shanaetch]

🎧 “Obedience is better than that sacrifice
The fact of life is you were born to die
Our biggest calling is the afterlife
Yeah, our biggest calling is the afterlife” Uncomfortable by Jackie Hill Perry

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[Brent Beshore @BrentBeshore]

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[Shana Echevarría 🪖 @shanaetch]

Justice prevailed! Beyond excited to see my friends be liberated from this ordeal. Praise God for his protection and wisdom through all of it. 🕊️ 🐍 @charlieykim @MeghanMess

[Charlie Kim @charlieykim]

After 32 months of a grueling nightmare defending ourselves against the U.S. Govt and DOJ, yesterday after an 11 day jury trial in DC Federal Court, we were acquitted on all counts. Not guilty on: conspiracy, bribery and gratuity.

When Judge McFadden said: “You’re free to go” everyone was sobbing. Still surreal, to finally get our freedom back. 🇺🇸❤️💪

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

MOST PEOPLE SUCK AT LEISURE.

leisure doesn’t mean doing nothing. it doesn't mean switching off your brain, rotting on your sofa, or doomscrolling tiktok.

leisure means doing something for its own sake. something that demands your highest capacities and makes you a better human.

reading philosophy. learning a craft. playing sports. having important conversations. contemplating life. making music, poetry, art.

the deterioration of leisure might be the most underrated problem of our time, and society would be a much happier place if we fixed it.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

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[Shana Echevarría 🪖 @shanaetch]

“Conviction, art, taste, judgement, sense that comes from you” not AI chat bots.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

If you are using AI heavily watch this video every morning.

And don’t get distracted by the beard.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

A pattern I've noticed in stuck people:

They're always busy. They never stop moving. They have 47 tabs open and a notebook-sized to-do list. But if you ask them what they accomplished this week that actually matters, their mind goes blank.

Busyness isn't a badge of honor.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Saying "No," is a hard thing done once.
Being Overwhelmed, is hard way of living every day.

[Shana Echevarría 🪖 @shanaetch]

What the Recruiter Never Said https://t.co/P8Z1u6Tn11

[a16z @a16z]

"Speed wins."

"You have to be willing to commit to being fast. You can't have long bureaucratic processes. You can't have a risk-averse posture."

@pmarca explains the OODA loop — and why the fastest operator controls the narrative in business, media, and politics:

"There's a framework called the OODA loop, originally developed for fighter pilots and later for broader military strategy."

"It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. It's basically the decision-making cycle."

"If speed is the thing that matters, then the person who gets through that cycle the fastest is the one who's going to win."

"If you can have a sustainably faster OODA loop processing cycle than the next guy — think about what happens… You operate and make a decision within an hour. The other guy is still inside his own OODA loop when you make your decision. He's only halfway through his process and now has to start over. You've changed the parameters of what's going on."

"This is also a big explanation for what's happened in traditional media."

"The New York Times has its own OODA loop, and it's like 24 hours to go through its process."

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Godspeed to The Troops.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

I'd rather be the oldest person in the weight room than the youngest person in the nursing home.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Optimus will be amazing for protecting and taking care of your elderly parents

[Michael B. Linton 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @MBLinton]

From "You Are a Theologian" by @jenniferwilkin and @jt_english

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Thanks to my first exec coach @yarbroughcam for teaching me this

[Shana Echevarría 🪖 @shanaetch]

🫡 Humbled to step up as Chief Master Sergeant in the Air Force Chaplain Corps, shoutout to the other selects 💪🏼

🪖 Locked and loaded for the mission: armoring souls, turning everyday Airmen & Guardians into unbreakable warriors ready to crush crises and lay it all on the line for 🇺🇸.

Badass spiritual resilience starts here. If you’re in the fight for stronger spirits, hit me up, let’s build it together.

Every Warfighter… Spiritually Fit and Ready!

[Air Force Chaplain Corps @usafhc]

We are pleased to announce our new Chief Master Sergeant selects:

(C)MSgt Bollier, Damian
(C)MSgt Echevarria, Shana
(C)MSgt Lett, Jamyal
(C)MSgt Webb, Nikki

[Shana Echevarría 🪖 @shanaetch]

@shl Hack Your Bureaucracy by @MarinaNitze and @NickSinai

[Shana Echevarría 🪖 @shanaetch]

There is no next calm. High-agency operators 🪖 charge in anyway.

“Learn to surf” is right, but only if we are honest about the ocean. Riding is not acceptance or waiting for calm. It is sustained performance while chaos never stops. That takes strength, timing, and repetition, along with brutal unlearning.

The instincts that once paid off, such as control, optimization, and outsmarting the system, now slow you down in an AI-driven shift happening in real time.

Marshall is not promising comfort. He is pointing to agency when calm never arrives.

There is no right environment. 💥Chaos is the environment. The edge comes from the right people, those who think/create clearly under pressure, trade signal over noise, and recover quickly without losing judgment.

That is how you 🏄🏽‍♀️waves that never stop.

[Marshall Goldsmith @CoachGoldsmith]

We can’t control the "waves" of life.

Challenges, changes, and curveballs will always show up uninvited.

But we can learn to surf them!

Much of leadership (and life) comes down to how we relate to what’s happening right now.

When things get rough, most of us try to resist, control, or outsmart the situation.

But the more we fight the current, the faster it pulls us under.

The best leaders learn to stay playful even when it’s messy.

You can't always wait for the waves to calm down.

But you can learn to ride them!

Life is good.
Marshall