Tommy Williamson

[Pamphlets @PamphletsY]

🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING — World Cup “Disaster”

Mohammad Mohebi and Mehri Taremi Say:

“Not to Make Excuses but This Is Not a Fair Competition.”

Iranian Players argued they should arrive 2 days before matches instead of traveling, training, and playing while exhausted by 5 hours in Immigration Controls and Transit.

[Tactical Football Review @TFRHQ5]

🚨🎙️| Rodrigo De Paul on the level of the MLS:

“People underestimate this league too much because they only watch clips on social media. The MLS is far more competitive than people think. Every game is intense, physical and demanding. You don’t get space easily here and every team fights until the final minute.

I’ve played at the highest level and I can tell you honestly, this league is much tougher than people give it credit for. In my opinion, it’s a more difficult environment than the Saudi league because here the intensity, rhythm and traveling make everything harder. Anyone who truly understands football and watches matches with a football brain can see that immediately.

There’s a reason why players like Messi continue to shine here and still speak highly about the level. He sees the work, the tactics and the competitiveness every single week. People think it’s easy because they only focus on the highlights, but when you actually play here, you realize how demanding it really is.”

[Mason @CardinalMason]

The literal #1 most suicidal belief you can have is that you’re an introvert/socially anxious/don’t like people.

I was this guy until around 22. Thought I was better than everyone else and actively chose not to be social.

Life completely changed when I started interacting with random people and just trying to make them laugh. Opportunities opened up, made relationships with people I never thought possible. Everything was just less dull and boring. Every day was fun for no reason.

You cannot be a lone wolf. It’s a mental illness.

Life is meaningless without people.

[Mohammed Jammal @whitenigerian]

The joy some people derive from Arsenal’s defeat says more about human nature than football. There is a strange comfort many find in the fall of those who are striving, perhaps because it makes their own struggles feel lighter. When something or someone is seen as “good,” their failure becomes a spectacle, not just a result. It reminds us that, for many, it is easier to celebrate a downfall than to confront someone else’s rise.

[NASA @NASA]

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.

Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl

[NASA @NASA]

1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

[ً @prinkasusa]

The first 60 minutes of your day decides if your brain's motivation system works for you or against you. Your brain runs on dopamine. The molecule that drives motivation, focus, and goal-directed behavior. Your dopamine system is especially sensitive right after waking. What you expose it to affects how it functions all day. Wake up and immediately scroll? Check emails? You flood your system
with cheap dopamine. Your brain adapts. Starts craving more stimulation. Hard tasks feel impossible. Protect that first hour instead. Do something hard. Move your body. Create before you consume. Your dopamine baseline stays stable. Motivation becomes easier. Not because you're disciplined. Because you programmed your neurochemistry correctly. The morning doesn't determine your mood. It determines your capacity to do hard things later.

[eigenron @eigenron]

your brain is the most neuroplastic in the first 60 mins after waking up. do what you will with that information.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The brain fog and distraction are downstream symptoms of a dysregulated nervous system.

Here’s what’s actually happening neurologically.

Every time you pick up your phone, you get a micro-hit of dopamine. Dopamine is the anticipation chemical. Your brain releases it before you find anything interesting, not after. So the scroll itself becomes the reward loop, regardless of what you see.

This creates a specific pattern:

Low-grade stimulation → dopamine release → temporary relief from baseline anxiety → tolerance builds → need more stimulation → phone check every 30 minutes → phone check every 10 minutes → phone check while eating, phone check in bathroom, phone check before your feet hit the floor in the morning.

The brain fog is your prefrontal cortex running on empty. That part of your brain handles attention, planning, and impulse control. It requires stable dopamine levels to function. When you’re constantly spiking and crashing dopamine through variable reward schedules (which is exactly what social media feeds are), your baseline dopamine drops. You feel foggy because your executive function is literally impaired.

Huberman’s protocol addresses this at the mechanism level.

In the morning, delay phone use for 60-90 minutes after waking. This allows cortisol to peak naturally, which sets your circadian rhythm and prevents you from hijacking your morning dopamine with artificial stimulation.

Throughout the day, introduce deliberate boredom. No phone during meals. No phone during walks. No phone while waiting. This sounds like torture because it is, at first. You’re letting your baseline dopamine reset by removing the constant micro-hits.

Your dopamine receptors downregulate when overstimulated. You need roughly 30-48 hours without high-dopamine activities for measurable receptor resensitization. Receptor density actually recovers when you stop flooding the system.

Cold exposure accelerates this. 30-60 seconds of cold water increases baseline dopamine by 250% for hours afterward, without the crash that follows phone use.

You’re fighting a nervous system that has been trained to expect stimulation every few minutes. Retrain the system first. The behavior change follows.

[caiden @parsedpatterns]

speed is the single most important trait in business and i will die on this hill. every successful founder i know moves at a pace that makes normal people uncomfortable. they reply to emails in minutes not days. they make decisions with 70% of the information instead of waiting for 100%. they ship products that aren’t perfect because they know a live product beats a perfect idea sitting in your head. most people spend weeks thinking about doing something while the fast movers already did it learned from it and iterated twice. analysis paralysis has killed more businesses than bad ideas ever have. the guy who launches a shitty version today will beat the guy who launches a perfect version in 6 months every single time because he’s already gotten feedback already pivoted already built relationships while the other guy is still tweaking his logo. i’ve seen mediocre ideas win because the founder moved fast and great ideas die because the founder moved slow. speed creates momentum and momentum creates luck and luck creates opportunities you never could have planned for. when in doubt just move faster

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Elon Musk: “Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect”

Elon is asked for his advice for entrepreneurs, to which he responds:

“I’m a big fan of anyone who wants to build. Anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. That’s the main thing you should aim for: to make more than you take and be a net contributor to society.”

He compares it to the pursuit of happiness:

“If you want to create something valuable financially, you don’t pursue that. It’s best to pursue providing useful products and services. If you do that, money will come as a natural consequence of that rather than pursuing money directly. You can’t pursue happiness directly. You pursue things that lead to happiness — fulfilling work, study, friends, loved ones.”

Elon continues:

“It sounds very obvious, but generally if somebody is trying to make a company work, they should expect to grind super hard and accept that there’s a meaningful chance of failure. Then just focus on having the output be worth more than the input. Are you a value creator? That’s what really matters: making more than you take.”

Video source: @nikhilkamathcio (2025)

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Fukang meteorite that fell in the mountains near Fukang, China. It is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old.

[Tommy Williamson @t_will999]

This looks very cool!

[Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC @RiverhoundsSC]

Read more now: https://t.co/PQJSH7XKZT

[Tommy Williamson @t_will999]

@SamuelOnuha Flexing your wrist in a RR is as humble as it gets!

[Jan 🇩🇪 @FutbolJan10]

Lamine Yamal vs Inter Milan

Ballon d'Or performance
https://t.co/VgBuVluK8z

[Tommy Williamson @t_will999]

@USL_HQ @USLChampionship Exciting!

[Tommy Williamson @t_will999]

@patcarino These skills are now redundant. ChatGPT will generate and display an excel function for this in seconds.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

A willingness to tolerate discomfort is the most meaningful separator.