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[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Norm Macdonald, he is missed

[Polymath Investor @polymathinvest1]

Do the most important work, first thing in the morning....basically

[sphinx @protosphinx]

Everything you own was manufactured. The knowledge of how (which parts, which materials, which machines) is concentrated in a small number of companies and countries.

More people who can read a BOM means more people who can make things. And making things is where most of the economic value is created. BOMwiki tries to lower the first step: seeing what products are actually made of.

https://t.co/NPnm98vtGQ

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Instead of starting at an wall to fix your attention span, this exercise daily. It was developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration. The exercise is called the Sentence Drill.

Read one short sentence from any book, then close it and try to write the sentence down word for word from memory. Once you can do that reliably, move up to two sentences. Then three. Then a small paragraph.

The first time you try it you'll realize how loose your reading actually is. You'll get the gist, but you'll miss exact words, change "and" to "the," skip a comma, swap an order.

This exercise forces you to actually see the words, not just glide over them. Your mind has to hold the exact shape of a sentence long enough to reproduce it.

Do this once or twice a day. Within two weeks you'll feel a significant difference, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your memory, and makes you pay more attention to detail, a very rare skill nowadays.

[Electra @Electrarythm]

If you only have 10 minutes of a day and want to drastically improve your concentration and memory, try these exercises developed in the early 1900s by William Walker Atkinson in his book The Power of Concentration.

First exercise: The Sentence Drill

Read one short sentence from any book, then close it and try to write the sentence down word for word from memory. Once you can do that reliably, move up to two sentences. Then three. Then a small paragraph.

The first time you try it, you'll realize how loose your reading actually is. You'll get the gist, but you'll miss exact words, change "and" to "the," skip a comma, or swap the order.

This exercise forces you to actually see the words, not just glide over them. Your mind has to hold the exact shape of a sentence long enough to reproduce it.

Second exercise: Picture Recall

Place a picture on a table and study it for two minutes, every detail. Close your eyes and try to recall everything: foreground, middle ground, background, colors, shapes. Open your eyes and ruthlessly correct every mistake. Close them again and notice how much sharper your mental image has become. Practice until it matches the original exactly.

Third exercise: Hand Drill

Sit at a table with both fists clenched, backs of the hands down, thumbs folded over the fingers. Fix your gaze on one fist, then slowly extend the thumb, keeping your entire attention on that one tiny act as if nothing else in the world matters. Extend each finger one at a time. Then reverse it, closing them one by one back into the original fist. Switch hands. Do five rounds per hand, building to ten.

The act itself is trivial, anyone can move their fingers. What’s hard is keeping every fiber of your awareness on each individual movement without your mind sliding off somewhere else.

You'll catch yourself moving fingers on autopilot while thinking about something else. That's the exact moment the exercise is failing. Catch it and bring yourself back.

Do these three exercises every day. Within two weeks you'll feel a significant difference, as it strengthens your attention span, strengthens your will, and forces your mind to obey you, not the other way around.

[Rachel @tolstoybb]

Apparently IRCC is asking hundreds of the ~4000 people who have received citizenship certificates under C-3 to surrender those certificates & invalidating their passports. A bunch of people who didn't provide certified birth records for every generation got incorrectly approved.

[Rachel @tolstoybb]

My mayors retarded
My bagel is scooped
My neighborhood burnt down
El Tri sin quinto partido

[Nikolai Rostov @austrosillyism]

Honestly being an Austrian is mostly unemployable so I will larp as a UCLA-Chicago economist. Coase & Alchian’s works on the firm, property rights, and cost/revenue are already pretty solid and Hayek says himself he wished Alchian wrote more. Stigler was good on information and antitrust economics. Demsetz has good stuff on public goods. Also Williamson tho neither had a good contract-based theory of the firm. It’s a tacit way to introduce more market-oriented thought

[Bradamante di Chiaramonte @bradamantemonte]

@The_Davos_Man Dear austrian friend, the femicide rate in Austria is almost double that of Italy. And now apologize for three things: your ignorance, your arrogance, and your country's misogyny.

[moped rental business @Maoist_Hikaruon]

@maiamindel It was Jake Sullivan who said that.

[Yet another commodity guy @tleilax___]

The hand gestures are better than subtitles.

[Speculator @TheSpeculator0]

>buy call option on a company
>engineer a call option on your own company by going public in a low float squeeze
>exercise call option in stock

Pretty neat financial engineering even if I hate Elon tbh

[Luke Metro @luke_metro]

Hall of fame opening sentence

[tomie @tomieinlove]

The French folding buttery dough 1000 times to make the flakiest croissant is spiritually isomorphic to the Japanese folding steel 1000 times to make the strongest katana

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is the best explanation I've seen of how mechanical watches work. https://t.co/h3uHfxpBX7

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

What's nice about calithsenics is that progress is slow. Some movements take months and years to accomplish because tendons, joints and connective tissue adapt much slower than muscle. It takes time to integrate the system.

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Still the hardest logo tech has ever produced

[elaine @hollywoodlov3r]

a sandwich can definitely taste as good as skinny feels

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

No good deed goes unpunished in Vishwaguru Amrit Kaal.