adler

industry is controlled by private owners

[adler @wtfAdler]

everything's a win when the goal is experience

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Mop Penguin @MopPenguin]

white people be like did you read the patch notes

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

kurt vonnegut's letter to a bunch of high school students explaining the importance of creating things

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

This girl told me her biggest turnoff is watching a guy fly too close to the sun; she said it gives her the Ickarus.

[Never Goon @NeverGoon]

You are supposed to lose it all and get it back that’s called prestige

[MM @markmaggior]

Night time in my paintings.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

unapologetically inspired by this tweet which i haven't stopped thinking about for months

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

[太龙Tailong @tailongyy]

swimming

#illustration #duck #callduck #swimming #pool #water #painting #drawing #digitalart

[𝑱 @OnlyPlayer_J]

Kids are now pausing their street games so I can pass.

[April, Lost but Peaking @AprilTurtle_]

Peace is knowing this is fine

[cav empty @cavempty_]

ideally you should be flying as close to the sun as possible

[groupon lobotomy @colleen_daves]

ok this but unironically, please tell me

[MAZE @maze9ne]

GOOD MORNING!

[MOON LOVER @M1ONLOVER]

Moon and Venus