Conrad deWolf

Having children is the only investment I have ever made in a long investment career that increases in value every single day. Every day I get a return on my investment, and every day that return is greater than the day before. It’s the best thing I’ve ever done.

I do not want to raise tamed boys. I want to raise moral boys. There is a difference. To mother boys is to be one of the first voices that tells them what their strength is for, and so I must learn. Every mother of sons faces a difficult decision: Do I shape them to fit the world as it is, or do I raise them to reshape the world as it ought to be? There is a wildness in boys that is not a flaw of creation but a part of it. A gift given by God Himself. A desire to run, to chase, to build, to break, to defend, to explore the unknown and come home covered in dust as if they had conquered the world. If we kill their spirits for the sake of convenience, for quiet classrooms and tidy living rooms, we may win temporary peace, but the cost is at the expense of a future man. And this truth is prevalent all around us.

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.

@Tanyaelisabeth Try staying home to raise your kids as their father.

If I stay home and raise my own children I am a loser and not ambitious But if I hire and pay another woman to raise and take care of my children for me than I am an empowered woman If that same woman stayed home with her children she would be a loser But if she takes care of my children she is not If we both switched and raised each others children for a paycheck we would be successful ambitious girl bosses But if we do it for our own children we are losers

Terrible trigger happy close here but another $110. Classic vcp/triangle breakout. An ounce of pause on the exit would’ve printed a few hundred more. #futures $nq

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Why do you want to have children? ​This is the best answer. ​Someday in your thirties or forties, you will suddenly realize the best things in life have already happened. The rest is just repetition and growing old, year after year, day after day. But a child washes away the repetition, making life unknown once again. They cause you worry, make you care, bring you joy, bring you surprise, and let you experience childhood all over again. They make you understand your parents' state of mind from back then, give you an excuse to buy the toys you once yearned for but couldn't have, make you strong in pain, and calm in a crisis. They let you see your childhood self, so that you can better understand and accept yourself. Parents raise the child, and the child also accompanies the parents. Parents and children nourish each other, and fulfill each other. In the fleeting time, the child gives us something to look forward to in the future. I think, this is the reason for having children. Why do you want to have children? Leave your comment below.

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@NewRightPoast Imagine seeing this and believing there is no Creator. “It’s all random” Yeah, ok.

I was so annoyed by this tweet that I spent the last week writing an entire children's book called The Insignificant Speck, which starts out telling this Reddit Atheist story ("You're just a speck, you're not special, nothing means anything"), but then takes a left turn halfway through, exploring the mathematical impossibility of life, how miraculous it is that anything exists at all, how an infinite sequence of stuff had to happen to produce you, how you are imbued with all of that magic, how the human experience is ablaze with the majesty and wonder of its Creator, and how your life has cosmic importance and is weighted with tremendous moral responsibility, and you owe your ancestors and your progeny the honor of living well and fully. It's the children's picture book I want my kids to read more than any other. A based "Oh, the Places You'll Go" for our retarded age. Anyone know any illustrators who'd want to collaborate on this?

Nobody talks about the part between quitting your job and actually making it as a Trader. I lived it. Waking up every morning knowing there's no paycheck coming. No boss to blame. Just me, my charts, and a family counting on me to figure it out. I spent 3 years watching other traders post wins while I was journaling losses and trying to understand why I kept breaking my own rules. The hardest part wasn't losing $13,000 in a day. It was sitting down the next morning and choosing to trade smaller, follow the plan, and trust a process that hadn't paid off yet. Previous job gave me $10-12K a month and took my whole life. Trading gives me my whole life back, but only after it took everything I thought I knew about myself. If you're having trouble trading right now, still breaking rules, still frustrated, still wondering if this is even going to work. The only difference between then and now is I stopped trying to be great and started trying to be consistent.

The talking over each other's timing was masterful.

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@SketchesbyBoze Lmao what you just say Willis?

You can be pretty confident that someone doesn’t read when they say “raped over at Kohl’s” rather than “raked over the coals.” As literacy declines, we are seeing new & unparalleled malapropisms.

Just drove 10 minutes all alone with the veggietales songs on normal volume before I even noticed. This is parenthood.

@CardilloSamuel We’ll never stop finding new ways to kill eachother 😂

direct kinetic impact. a flying sword. 450km/h. updated video showing exactly that. we're also working on the explosive variant. only for authorized partners. dms are open.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

@frogNscorpion @grok summarize and give a fact based dissection of claims made

STUDY DUMP PART 1: Use the wayback machine to view scrubbed articles and SciHub to bypass paywalls. ◼️ Four times more likely to beat their wives than ◻️ men. >sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@CoachAGochis I’ll vote for you just don’t sell us out like all the rest.

As a lifelong Texan, including my years in college, If we cannot find a better conservative small government candidate, I’m considering a run in 2030 to be governor. I would love to start connecting with people now.Main issues: Our border Education Restoring jobs to Texans & more

For those keeping score at home: Texas has the most data centers being built in the country The third most mosques The eighth highest tax burden (only red state in the top 10) 40th in education Top 10 highest property taxes Top 5 H1B imports Care to comment @GregAbbott_TX

We all could use this reminder every now and again.

One of my favorite quotes and something instilled by my own father. Negativity helps no one and makes no thing easier. It’s easy to be negative, but to be positive when it’s not easy is to lead the way forward. Rarely is the easy path the one to greatness.