Zach Scragg

following my nose

[Joe Hudson @FU_joehudson]

It’s impossible to draw good boundaries from fear.

If you brace for the other person’s reaction, you invite a fight.
If you do it from an open heart, you change the entire interaction.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The doers are the major thinkers.”

— Steve Jobs

[ɐ͎ʞ͎ć͎ı͎ɹ͎ɐ͎ɯ͎ @leamaric]

This is such a post-modern cop-out you see in Godless societies. A good person benefits solely from being good and faithful to their intentions. So sick of seeing these leftist-coded nihilistic takes that serve only to justify amoral behavior.

[Deutsch Explains @DeutschExplains]

.@DavidDeutschOxf: Everyone can and should be a scientist, because being a scientist just means wanting to understand the world and using the only method of doing so that works, namely, to be puzzled, to be mistaken, to guess how one might be mistaken and how the grand authorities who can't imagine that they could be mistaken often are, and not to be satisfied with bad explanations, one's own or anyone's, that is, explanations that could have otherwise and you'd be none the wiser. That's the critical attitude.

It's the only access to reality that we have. Use it. It's fun.

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

@ArtemisConsort Nah, he’s right

[Deutsch Explains @DeutschExplains]

.@DavidDeutschOxf: Creativity is disobedience. By not recognizing that, by suppressing disobedience, you’re suppressing creativity—always.

Apart from mass murderers or something. But even then, it’s only the actions of criminals that have to be suppressed. Their ideas are best dealt with in non-violent ways.

So we need to make a physically safe society, but not a society safe from ideas—unless they’re ideas about violence, intolerance, or suppressing the growth of knowledge.

And there are many such ideas around.

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

@postreptilian @DavidDeutschOxf I’m looking for it too. Did you find it?

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

When I miss the gym I’m less focused.

When I’m less focused I make poor decisions at work.

When I make poor decisions at work I end up working late.

When I work late I stay up late.

When I stay up late I sleep in.

When I sleep in I don’t make it to the gym.

When I don’t make it to the gym I’m less hungry.

When I’m less hungry I skip meals.

When I skip meals I’m less focused.

When I’m unfocused I make poor decisions.

When I make poor decisions I get stressed and irritable.

When I’m stressed I scroll on my phone more.

When I scroll more I lose track of time and lose literally hours of the day.

When I lose time I don’t make it to the gym.

When I don’t make it to the gym I’m less focused.

…Any one of these moments is an opportunity to break the cycle.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

When journos classify "billionaires" they miss that:

1- It is paper valuation. If they were able to liquidate, they may no longer be billionaires, as prices are sensitive to a large supply.
2- If they managed to sell, they will owe capital gains taxes.
3- Sometimes, as with PE they just can' t sell.

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

@levelsio Have you lived in Germany? Not so sure about the bribes, but the rest of what you described sounds similar. I think it’s mostly due to bureaucracy though.

[Arthur @knowclarified]

Deutsch was right btw

We’re stealing computation from other universes rn

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

@juanivillarejo Wow, that edition is 🔥

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Yes.

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

“The mind’s task is not to come up with an idea but to recognize it when it hits you”

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

“At some point you have to stop studying the old, and start creating the new.”

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

@foolmealex @Aella_Girl Same! But only the ones blinded by their group think distrust you!

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

@bfmcneill @dagorenouf Osho

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

@InTheMoneyAdam Congratulations Adam!! We care!!

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

“Success” feels more like a game of inertia than luck or willpower

[Zach Scragg @ZachScragg]

The current news cycle doesn’t deserve your energy—your family, friends, and goals do.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers." - Nassim Taleb