Teddy

brick by brick. it won’t be linear

[Big League Digest @BigLeagueDigest]

Take a look at Juan Soto’s swing in slow motion 👀🤌

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Teddy @Teddy_Chips]

@LegionHoops These are the people voting for MVP? 😂😂😂

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Kevin Finnerty @timeimmemorial_]

World Cup travelers after one day in NJ:

[NBA @NBA]

THE FULL ENDING OF GAME 4.

UNCUT. 🍿🍿🍿🍿

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

OG ANUNOBY TONIGHT:

33 POINTS
10/15 FGM
7/9 3PM
41 MINUTES

FINALS GAME WINNER — GAME OF HIS LIFE

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Your tolerance for uncertainty is what is preventing you achieving your dream life

[𝗘𝗟🐕⚒️👁️⃤ @MasterNumber]

Insane. Can you imagine how many vulnerable people will fall for this? Be careful out there

[Camus @newstart_2024]

“The best men have been broken.”

Chris Williamson shared this line from Alain de Botton on his Modern Wisdom podcast. He says you can see it in the eyes, a quiet humility, a recognition of limits, even in high achievers.

After two brutal years dealing with serious health issues, Chris realized that getting kicked in the teeth forces you to examine your patterns, motivations, and goals under a microscope. It’s uncomfortable in the moment, but it becomes a gift.

He believes almost all of our greatest accomplishments are born from our lowest points. Adversity is a terrible thing to waste.

This hit me hard. The guys who seem most grounded and impressive often carry some invisible scars. The smooth, effortless path rarely produces the same depth.

In a culture obsessed with constant wins and highlight reels, remembering that struggle forges real character is a powerful reminder. The lowest points often plant the seeds for what we become.

What’s one hard season in your life that ended up shaping you for the better?

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

One of my fav Jeff Bezos quotes:

"Stress does not come from hardwork. Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over."

[Vikram Pai @vikpai]

Running a business is just realizing how dumb you were 6 months ago every 6 months

[John Huber @JohnHuber72]

People forget the key principle of moneyball. It’s not about on base percentage, launch angles, etc… it’s about finding market inefficiencies. Once it was discovered that these factors were undervalued, they lose their edge because everyone pays up for them. Maybe the Rays found an inefficiency at the other end. No different than how a stock of a great company might be a great investment at one price but a bad investment at another price.

[Teddy @Teddy_Chips]

Interesting

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually.

One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.

You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke.
The AI just invoices you for the outage.

And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn’t hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Readiness is not a feeling. It's a decision.

The voice in your head that says you're not ready is not protecting you. It's just stopping you from finding out what you're actually capable of.

[Teddy @Teddy_Chips]

I never skip this video. Legend

[Van Lathan Jr @VanLathan]

That first slip was such an enormous sign of disaster.

[Teddy @Teddy_Chips]

@leevalueroach True story?

[Teddy @Teddy_Chips]

@statfax Why is this so funny 😂