Well Phrased

I like to note down quotes. Sometimes I do so publicly, here. My name is Mark. On 𝕏, I'm @MbyM

[Well Phrased @wellphrased]

Listen.
A lot of great things could be achieved through listening.
—@CalFussman
https://t.co/HR8Rv2BWBJ
https://t.co/2crFxOvQLM (2:48:28)

[Luke Metro @luke_metro]

never forget Nikita's Second Law

[Well Phrased @wellphrased]

New facts lead to new opinions.

[DHH @dhh]

I love this compilation so much. Because both sides hold true! If you let AI write all your bash, you won't learn bash, if you didn't already know it. And if you haven't updated your priors about AI since mid 2025, you're ngmi. Let new facts lead to new opinions!

[Well Phrased @wellphrased]

“she is also beautiful, talented, and a winner, which makes them hate her more”

[tiff @tiffhuangx]

do you really hate eileen gu or do you just hate the world we live in? https://t.co/K0bEsQW3nP

[DHH @dhh]

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." — Friedrich Nietzsche

[Cole Jaczko @colejaczko]

Never seen someone truly give it their all & not end up with a life far beyond their wildest dreams

[Jake Kozloski @jakozloski]

A bad match wastes a night.

An almost-right match wastes three years, and it ends when you're older, the pool is smaller, and the person you should have met is married to someone else.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Wake me up when AI can write like John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe 😂

[“paula” @paularambles]

this is a little out of pocket

[Rachael Nelson @rachael__nelson]

men only want one thing and it's domain names

[DHH @dhh]

"The standard pace is for chumps" has been echoing in my head all week. It's unbelievable how fast you can move when you just decide to push the pedal all the way. https://t.co/KmaA0mUupo

[Well Phrased @wellphrased]

the confidence with which people talk about things they very clearly know nothing about will never stop amazing me.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is not only beyond wrong, but also irresponsibly dangerous and the arrogance of saying something like this while being so embarrassingly ignorant of basic female biology makes it even worse.

postpartum depression is a real psychiatric disorder that affects roughly 1 in 7 women after giving birth and no, men cannot suffer from it

during pregnancy, a woman's hormonal environment changes completely: estrogen and progesterone rise enormously, along with neurosteroids like allopregnanolone that directly affect GABA signaling in the brain (responsible for reducing stress in the brain)

after birth, the placenta comes out (creating a massive internal open wound on top of everything) and within days all those hormones crash.
the female brain and body have to readjust to one of the most extreme hormonal swings a human being can experience, while she's recovering from childbirth, barely sleeping, breastfeeding, and responsible for keeping a completely helpless brand new human alive.

men simply cannot experience that

yes, fathers can get depressed after having a child too. but their body didn't spend 9 months building a new endocrine organ and then lose it in a matter of minutes. still, also male depression should not be taken lightly. it's less common, but can become severe.

in roughly 1-2 cases per 1000 births, women can also develop postpartum psychosis and completely lose contact with reality: delusions, paranoia, mania, hallucinations, etc. (obviously this doesn't justify or excuse murdering kids)

the fact that hormonal swings around childbirth can, in rare cases, contribute to women behaving in completely irrational and even dangerous ways should be taken seriously and talked about, not reduced to "women are selfish and don't like being de-centered"

and this is why saying shit like this is actually dangerous and Matt is incredibly irresponsible for saying this (either genuinely ignorant or evil, or both)

a woman suffering from PPD can already feel like she's failing as a mother (she's not) and now you have people telling her that she's not sick, she's just selfish.

even worse, you have husbands listening to people like matt and thinking their wife just needs to toughen up instead of realizing that something may actually be wrong and helping her.

some women are unlucky enough to suffer from postpartum depression, some are even more unlucky and marry a man like matt who tells them it's because they're selfish.

the confidence with which people talk about things they very clearly know nothing about will never stop amazing me.

[tree @treeonchain]

an idiot in motion will go further than a genius at rest

[Well Phrased @wellphrased]

Overthinking isn't problem-solving. It's procrastination dressed up as productivity.
–Author "Marieme Seck"
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
–Alfred Adler via @thedankoe https://t.co/84ZpBzkW3j

[Well Phrased @wellphrased]

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
–Socrates (maybe)

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“I don’t have talent, so I just get up earlier.”

— Henry Rollins

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Do. not. stop.

Thoreau

[Therese @usernom99]

@realAtlasPress Also critical: Just get started.
Everything does not have to be figured out at the start.
The art of the leap of faith needs more advertisement, especially to younguns.

[Mubbu @wizofecom]

Had a wealthy friend tell me that the ability to decrease time to any outcome is the one skill behind every successful person he knows.

A few I apply constantly:

- Decreasing the time it takes you to get out of a bad state will make you emotionally resilient

- Decreasing the time it takes you to go from idea to executive will make you wealthy

- Decreasing the time it takes you to turn a failure into a lesson will thicken your skin faster than anything else

[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

Palantir CTO @ssankar in 2024:

“For $10 billion, @elonmusk put 300 rockets in orbit.”

“For $11 billion the state of California has built 1600ft of elevated rail, with no rail.”