S.VanCoenen

Every lie incurs a debt to reality. Sooner or later the debt must be paid.

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@tigerfl0w That’s retarded.

It’s not nearly as simple as cheap stocks triple market returns.

If that were true, we’d just buy those “cheap” stocks, and they’d no longer be cheap.

[Phil @sewageshifter]

@RichardDawkins @Inevitablewest

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@IterIntellectus And maybe 75% of the people writing on here

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@MurrayHillGuy1 My roommates after college were both a version of this. Big deals at our college, had hot GFs, but turned out mid in a big northeast city after.

Both dumped w/ in a year of graduation, then it got worse. It was rough. They’re doing better now, but age 22-27 was all downhill.

[miguel ángel quintana paz @quintanapaz]

Cabe discutir si el Medievo acaba a la caída de Constantinopla (1453) o con la llegada a América (1492); si el siglo XX empezó donde dice la cifra (1901) o donde decía Hobsbawm (1917).
Pero sí sabemos sin discusión el momento exacto en que los años 80 dieron paso a los 90. Este:

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@DanFriedman81 I grew up wearing Nike everything.

Now I won’t touch it.

Go woke, go broke.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

A neuroscientist who studies focus discovered something unexpected about AirPods Pro 2.

The combination of Active Noise Cancellation + brown noise at 40% volume + Conversation Awareness OFF creates the fastest path to flow state she's ever measured in a consumer device.

Average time to deep focus: 4 minutes.
Average deep work session: 90 minutes without interruption.
Previous average without the protocol: 23 minutes before the first distraction broke the session.

She didn't discover a hack. She applied neuroscience.

The auditory cortex never fully deactivates during wakefulness. It is always listening, always evaluating the acoustic environment for threats and social signals. The question is not how to silence it. The question is how to feed it something so consistent and non-threatening that it stops looking for problems and allows the prefrontal cortex to take over.

She now prescribes this protocol to every PhD student and executive she coaches:

"Your brain can't focus in silence. Silence is threatening your auditory system scans for sounds that aren't there. And your brain can't focus in noise noise is unpredictable stimulation that pulls attention. Brown noise through ANC headphones is the neurological sweet spot: consistent enough that your threat-detection system relaxes, rich enough that your auditory cortex is occupied, and featureless enough that your prefrontal cortex takes over. That's flow. In 4 minutes. On a device most people use to listen to podcasts."

Here's the full protocol the neuroscience behind it and the exact AirPods settings to replicate it tonight 🧵

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

It's noteworthy that once you adjust for demographics, Mississippi is the state with the second highest test scores in the country.

It's right behind Massachusetts!

[The Missing Data Depot @data_depot]

What is the most "taboo" scientific question?

A 2024 survey found "Whether European Whites are smarter than African Blacks for genetic reasons" was considered the most taboo topic, outranking the harms of incest, the harms of pedophilia & mental illness in transsexuals.

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@data_depot The bigger the taboo, the (likely) bigger truth hidden underneath.

This one is the big lie of our time.

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@WifeFinance I did.

Westchester version.

It’s incredibly nice.

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@avidseries @capitalismandf1 Saying it’s possible that it’s 5 pts is a bit of a dodge.

Wdyt the genetic effect actually is?

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@ferald_gord Funny - I’ve worked with a bunch of these.

Fenwick for ex, and you can just feel that they’re all woke, even through zoom.

S&C on the other hand, much more normal vibe.

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@Belisaurius45 @NaithanJones @justfuckingyoda Not really.

I’m not bothered by inherited privilege.

Just trying to help ppl understand that’s not the best way to live.

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@Belisaurius45 @justfuckingyoda Nah.

I’m just telling the truth about how that path works out so that people don’t idealize a path that leads nowhere.

If you’re too foolish to see that, then idk what to tell you brother.

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@Belisaurius45 @justfuckingyoda How so?

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@VCIO_69 @justfuckingyoda Yes, that’s the best way.

[i/o @avidseries]

The Jason Arday story is a well, and it is bottomless.

[S.VanCoenen @VancoenenS]

@Anc_Aesthetics Living in the western world with a sub 100 IQ must be very hard.