Matthew Link

renaissance man | founder of

[Matthew Link @thematthewlink]

There's a skill that predicts success nearly 2x better than intelligence. It takes no talent. It costs nothing. And you were never even taught that it exists. 🧵

[Matthew Link @thematthewlink]

@NoahRyanCo This made me crave some oysters mate

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

It’s best to think about health decisions in terms of tradeoffs.

I eat oysters at the expense of added microplastic burden

I eat fresh fish at the expense of heavy metal contamination

I get sun at the expense of UV induced photodamage

I train hard at the expense of CNS burden

When you know the expense, you know how to cut your losses. You can extract the utility of the tool without the burden of overdoing it. There is no objectively good or bad intervention. Only acquiring something at the expense of another.

[National Post @nationalpost]

Canada allows minors into drug consumption sites, but would ban access to social media.

Canadian 15-year-olds could soon face a regime disallowing Facebook use, while facing no barriers to injecting fentanyl at a government-run facility, writes Tristin Hopper https://t.co/s8rENZfczw

[Matthew Link @thematthewlink]

I got to see this back in 2018, breathtaking architecture

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A historic moment: the main tower of the Sagrada Família has finally been completed

The day before, it was consecrated by Pope Leo XIV, marking the 100th anniversary of the death of the great architect Antoni Gaudí.

The 172.5-meter Tower of Jesus Christ has become the tallest part of the church, and the Sagrada Família is now considered the tallest Christian structure in the world.

Construction of the basilica began in 1882. Gaudí died in 1926 without ever seeing his main masterpiece completed.

However, this is still not the final stage: interior work and the main entrance still remain. So the world’s most famous long-term construction project is officially not finished yet.

[Matthew Link @thematthewlink]

@spencerpratt Sorry about the fraud, brother. Praying for you

[alon @alonzuman]

having a wife is crazy cuz its like claude code but it prompts you instead

[Kevin Szabo @KevinSzabo14]

Pro tip:

Sell to wealthy people.
They ask no questions.
They pay better.

[Pascal Anglehart @DemosKratosCA]

Just to be clear, as so many retarded Canadians don't seem to understand: I don't care if 13 year olds can't access social media.
I care that we adults will have to identify ourselves and have our activity tracked by a totalitarian government.
Fuck sake, Canadians are stupid.

[Matthew Link @thematthewlink]

@KaltsasN @globeandmail 🍻

[blue @bluewmist]

My husband just told our son, who was picking on his little sister, "it is your job as a future man to listen and respect people's boundaries. You will often be bigger than others and it is unkind to use your size against them. She said stop. You will stop."
I've never heard another man, at least in my family, say anything like that
I hope we raise good humans.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Reject the man cave.

Embrace the personal library.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

“I am with you always…”

-Matthew 28:20

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Find your partner early. You will shape each other. That’s how you end up with a soulmate. The culture that told you to wait is broken. Just look around and you’ll see what I mean.

[Matthew Link @thematthewlink]

@WildSentences God bless this man

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Keynesian Brain Rot on Full Display in Canada.

Canada’s central banker, Tiff Macklem, is engaged in a familiar technocratic exercise, avoiding the only question that matters. Did the Bank of Canada help push the country into recession? Instead of answering, he hides behind definitional games and bureaucratic evasions.

The economics are straightforward. Under a Wicksellian framework, the neutral rate declines when productivity weakens and population growth deteriorates. Canada has both. Productivity is negative. The marginal growth impulse from immigration is fading. By definition, the economy’s capacity to sustain higher rates has fallen.

Wicksell is clear, hold policy rates above the neutral rate, and monetary policy becomes restrictive. In that sense, even standing still becomes tightening.

By refusing to adjust to a falling neutral rate, Macklem and the Bank of Canada have effectively tightened into a weakening economy.

To be clear, supply shocks and tariffs do not cause inflation, they change relative prices, that is basic economics. Yet policymakers treated a largely supply-driven price spike as justification for aggressive tightening, compounding structural weakness with cyclical error.

This is not caution. It is policy failure.
But the deeper problem is not just the central bank, it is the broader economic elite that presided over a slow-burning economic cancer. For years, Canada has suffered from negative productivity growth, weak capital investment, and a suffocating regulatory state that steadily eroded competitiveness. Instead of diagnosing and treating these structural failures, policymakers masked them. Real estate speculation and household leverage became the chemotherapy of choice, blunting symptoms while the underlying disease spread.

Now the façade is cracking, and the diagnosis can no longer be avoided.
And yet the response from the same leadership class is denial dressed up as sophistication. They debate whether this qualifies as a “technical recession” while per capita output falls, businesses retrench, and real incomes erode. The message to ordinary Canadians is as clear as it is dismissive, absorb the pain, trust the framework, and stop asking questions.

A recession is an economic heart attack, sudden, visible, impossible to ignore. But Canada’s problem runs deeper. This is what it looks like when an economy is overtaken by cancer, a long-term deterioration driven by weak productivity, chronic underinvestment, and policy complacency, left undiagnosed, or worse, deliberately ignored by the very elites tasked with managing it.
Canada avoided the shock of 2008. Instead of reform, it allowed the disease to metastasize. What is unfolding now is not an external crisis. It is the inevitable consequence of years of neglect.

Macklem can continue to argue about definitions. The country, meanwhile, is living with the diagnosis. Keynesian Brain Rot was on full display in Canada today.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist.

The west is like the shire.

We must save the shire.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

George Floyd protests = GOOD ✅
Vs.
Belfast protests = BAD ❌

Keir Starmer clearly hates white people. 🇬🇧

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

"Stop waiting to be picked.
Pick yourself.
And act like it."