The Dude

all things travel, outdoors, cooking, food, business, finance, open your mind

[The Dude @theepatdonovan]

@ATRightMovies Anything with Ben affleck, The Town being the only exception.

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Where I see myself in the future (dressed up, smoking a cigarette in a sunny plaza in Spain)

[_Trav_A @Trav_A_22]

This is the kind of recklessly American propaganda that I live for

[The Dude @theepatdonovan]

@apollozen What’s the trick to this? More collagen heavy bones??

[Matt Leinart @MattLeinartQB]

Teaching my kids to never take the easy way out. Life can be hard and unfair but that’s what builds toughness and resilience. Be grateful for the road that’s in front of you. Grateful for everything, entitled to nothing!

[The Dude @theepatdonovan]

@NFL_DovKleiman Aldon smith lol

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Rick Rubin on submerging yourself in great works:

"Consider submerging yourself in the canon of great works. Read the finest literature, watch the masterpieces of cinema, get up close to the most influential paintings, visit architectural landmarks.

Exposure to great art provides an invitation. It draws us forward, and opens doors of possibility.

If you make the choice of reading classic literature every day for a year, rather than reading the news, by the end of that time period you’ll have a more honed sensitivity for recognizing greatness from the books than from the media.

This applies to every choice we make. Not just with art, but with the friends we choose, the conversations we have, even the thoughts we reflect on.

All of these aspects affect our ability to distinguish good from very good, very good from great.

They help us determine what’s worthy of our time and attention.

Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.

The objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness. So we can better make the thousands of choices that might ultimately lead to our own great work."

[Ben Roy @benroy]

The bar is truly so low. For everything. So much of the world is run by confident but mediocre people just trundling along. You can simply show up, act like you belong, put in the work & win in any category you want to. These people are not smarter than you.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Man of questionable sanity ✅
Very polite pig ✅
Dancing parrot ✅
Curiously chill chicken✅

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

The Minnesota Somali fraud exposes everything that is wrong with government. Politicians and their administrators spend other people’s (taxpayers’) money to advance their own interests —getting themselves and their party elected and reelected by supporting an ethnic group which votes as a block — under the guise of supporting a purported good, in this case child daycare, autism care and ‘healthcare’ broadly defined.

When this fraud is combined with a system which allows one voter to ‘verify’ up to eight other voters who do not have to show state or federal ID, at best you destroy the American people’s confidence in our democratic voting system, and, at worst, you have rigged elections.

The only way this stops is for the people responsible to suffer severe criminal consequences and for there to be a Federal internal audit system where private citizen bounty hunters who find fraud earn rewards equal to a percentage of the grift identified.

The time to fix our broken system is now.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

California will be bankrupt by 2030.

If you’re expecting a state pension, it is at risk.

If you don’t believe it, check Grok or Gemini and explore how California politicians changed the reporting rules on your pension so they could hide how underwater it is.

The middle class citizens of California will soon be asked to pay a huge price to bail out the state.

Why them?

Because that is where most of the wealth of California resides. It’s easy to single out “billionaires” but there aren’t many of them and they can and will all leave before the bottom falls out. They are leaving in droves already.

The mismanagement in California is biblical - and the scale is huge because it’s the world’s 4th largest economy.

California politicians and their henchmen are now entering the coverup phase where they can no longer hide their financial incompetence so they are taking from average California residents to try and hide what they’ve done:

You will soon see ballot initiatives with fancy tiles like “billionaire tax”. But those are lies. They are mechanisms to tax everything, every way:

Excise taxes
Wealth taxes
Private property confiscation

It’s all happening now.

If you want to preserve California, you will need to stand up because California has become a kleptocracy.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The recipe is simple: Do what most people avoid. Wake up early. Focus deeply. Move your body. Eat real foods. Obsess over one thing. Go on adventures. Read old books. Be present. Be kind. Have difficult conversations. Love ferociously. Simple is beautiful.

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

Throwback to Gavin Newsom sleeping with his campaign managers wife..

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

This was the finest and most consequential political speech of my lifetime. It was what Americans needed to hear. JD Vance earned my vote. Thank you JD.

Justice for Charlie is coming.

I thought about clipping this but honestly? It's the most consequential speech of our time and you all need to watch it in full.

[Cigarette Nostalgia @CigsMake]

Aussie man catches the ball while smoking a cigarette

[The Dude @theepatdonovan]

@ashuadude88 @WeaponsVault What caliber is this??

[The Dude @theepatdonovan]

@James_HamNBA Great press conference from the new addition. Giving time to the media to give thoughtful answers, what you want to see

[The Dude @theepatdonovan]

@BoutYeBBQ Hey will- when you cook spuds like this on the bbq, so you boil first and finish in bbq, or just roast them in there the whole time ?

[The Dude @theepatdonovan]

@NoRiskNoParty @matt_sooner Did you keep all trailers under one LLC? Or one per trailer ?

[The Dude @theepatdonovan]

@NoRiskNoParty @matt_sooner Awesome and do you make them sign something before rental like a basic rental agreement? And do you charge a deposit up front or paid in full before use?