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@JamesNiehues @KingPineSkiArea We hit @KingPineSkiArea on founders day every year!

This ski area in the White Mountains offers 17 trails and six chairlifts. Can anyone #NameThatNiehues? 𖧥 𖧥⁠ 𖧥 #SkiNH #Skiing #Snowboarding

@Eweather13 @Eweather13 yes in Bow, NH at 1k feet

Anyone seeing flakes out there tonight? Most of this is virga, but wondering if a few flurries are making through where the darker blue is.

@MichaelRWear @TheAlanNoble I read this during Covid and I haven’t eaten peaches since.

I couldn’t let 2025 pass without relieving the awful guilt and (unspoken) disappointment I have labored under from @TheAlanNoble…I just finished The Road and I am now weeping in my car.

@tyromper Requesting updates on this friendship…

I approached the sauna at the gym today & as I opened the door an insanely shredded, tatted head to toe guy was in there alone blasting music & shadow boxing. "Hey bro, want me turn that off or some other music you like?!" He said as I opened the door. I jokingly said back, I HAVE A RULE IF I SIZE UP A MAN & ASSESS THERE'S A 99.9% CHANCE HE COULD END MY LIFE IN SECONDS I LET HIM CHOOSE THE MUSIC IN THE SAUNA. He laughed, turned it off & we chatted a bit. He shared he was an early MMA fighter & now trains & spars with a lot of the current guys. He lives a FAST LIFE. Grew up in a tough environment. -lotta women. -lotta wild stories. -Exact opposite of my current life. I shared with him I had 2 sons a daughter & had been married 11 years. After a bit more talk he then said, "I always wanted to get married & be a dad, but I just CAN'T DO IT man. I can't settle down like that." Brother, why would YOU limit yourself? I asked him. If you always wanted this, then not why not go after it? Pursue it with the same tenacity you do fighting? "Since I've been young this is just who I am man...... I can't change that." What if I asked you to train me to become a good fighter? I've never fought before once. My identity isn't a fighter, but my guess is if you trained me a year or so I could become a good fighter..... or get killed trying by guys like you. (I joked). he pondered..... I continued, this time of year is perfect to reflect, set an intention moving forward -- and just by looking at you one second I wouldn't ever allow yourself to believe you CAN'T accomplish anything. We chatted a bit more after that. It's a reminder to me: •The only limits are mental. •Your identify & how you see yourself is so crucial. •At any moment you can choose to break free from anything & turn back another path. •2 people with complete opposite views, lives, & stories can always find common ground & have great conversations. •The most savage guys are always the friendliest. You're never stuck!!!! Let's all make 2026 the best year ever!!!

@Matt_Pinner 31!

Only 4 for me. How about You?

@tyromper Merry Christmas!

I ALLEGEDLY have 255,000 + followers, but it's back to feeling like 6 years ago when I had 255 followers again. Most replies are AI. If you're REAL: please drop a hi, emoji, something good you're proud of, merry Christmas or something & let's see who is still here! 🙏

@BrentBeshore That’s good authentic leadership - we all need to get more clear on our vision AND more clear on how we get in our own way.

This is kind of Clint. I felt called to tell the truth about the danger of hiding and mask-wearing that I see so clearly in my life and the lives of others. To be free, we must become known. Below is from my annual letter (permanentequity.com/content/2024-a…), but roughly where I went. Hope it's helpful. ----- Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Hide I want to end with a warning, a plea, and a word of encouragement. I’ve had a front-row seat to the unplanned and rapid disassembly of quite a few peoples’ lives this year. I’m not sure if it’s my age, or stage, or just random, but I’ve never had so many friends and acquaintances struggle so mightily in such deeply personal ways. From addiction and adultery to mental health breaks and alleged criminal activity, I’ve seen what feels like “it all” this year. I’ve gotten more “I need to talk” texts than I can count. Our biggest problems always start small. It’s just a little help to get me through the day. It’s just one night of fun with the boys. It’s just a little corner cut. It’s just some fun flirting. It’s just a short season of unsustainable work. We realize that we’re not okay, but we like the results and believe we can make it work. Our desires overpower our conscience. To state the obvious, life is complicated and messy. I certainly am. The more I see other peoples’ lives up-close, the more I realize that everyone, and I mean everyone, is battling something dark and difficult. You must trust me that you are not alone in your battle. What you’re going through is far more common than you can imagine, no matter how messed up you think it is. The problem is that we all hide out of fear. We tell each other we’re fine when we’re not. This goes back to the Garden of Eden. When sin entered the world, our response was to hide and blame. We’ve been doing so ever since. Genesis is either ground-breaking literature or the Word of God, but either way, you should read it. It’s all there. In this hiding we lie to ourselves and to each other. We try to cover ourselves with fig leaves of success, money, beauty, religiosity, and morality. Our masks become so tight and so polished, and we play pretend for so long that we lose ourselves. The perfect job, perfect family, perfect lives can only hold for so long. And in the hiding, the darkness grows. As Tolkien depicts in The Lord of the Rings, Smeagol transforms into Gollum until eventually, Gollum forgets he once had another name. Sin is the carbon monoxide of life. We think we’re the same person we’ve always been. That’s what makes sin so confusing, unpredictable, and lethal. We’re being poisoned, but can’t feel the damage. We think we can play with darkness, or make the darkness work for us. We think we can control it. We think our darkness is so ugly that if known, no one would love us. But, we also love the darkness. Our loves are disordered, and it’s killing us. There become cracks in the mask, but we maintain such a distance that we’re convinced no one notices. We keep pretending, while our hearts slowly become deadened. We assume that cautiously navigating everyone, especially those closest to us, is just how life works. And often, we try harder to keep the mask tight and polished, getting more fit, more successful, and more involved in our churches. We pretend that if we shroud ourselves in good works and the apparent fruit of them, no one will ever know about the brokenness. And then the facade detonates. It always does, but rarely when we expect or in the way we would have expected. The shrapnel maims. Everything we built our lives on is threatened, which is the exact fear that we were hiding from. Our fears become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and it was our hiding that enabled it. This probably sounds impossible, but true freedom starts with nothing to hide. Light is the best disinfectant, and when it comes to our sin, it is the only disinfectant. We must be known. We must live in deep relationship, in community with people who know the real us, the real pain, the real struggles, and our real dreams. There is a danger to living this way. People will hurt us. People will betray us. People will use what they know to their advantage. I know, because as I’ve tried to live this way, I’ve experienced some serious costs. But, I promise you it’s worth it. You will find true friends, those who will mourn and celebrate with you, those who will tell you the truth in love. The alternative is loneliness and misery. Aren’t we tired of living alone? Haven’t we had enough pain of no one knowing the real us? There seems to be a Rubicon that we all have to cross, and from my experience usually the choice presents between the ages 35 and 45. It’s the decision to be you, or to continue to play a fictitious character. If you haven’t gotten there yet, it’s coming. You can prepare by actively seeking real relationships and community. Or, you can keep accumulating soul-level debt, which is like piling sticks of dynamite next to a roaring fire. If you are battling anything in secret, and the odds are extremely high that you are, I beg you to become known to someone you trust. And, stay known, especially when you want to go back into hiding. I promise you that while the consequences might be painful, you and the people around you will experience far less suffering than if you leave it unaddressed. The real relationships and freedom to be found on the other side are worth it.

@Eweather13 Skiing in northern New Hampshire!!

Where are you watching the eclipse Monday? Share where in the comments below.

@minchoi @DrMGuillen here are some great examples of what we talked about in email!

AI will disrupt Hollywood (Part 26)📽️ Sora isn't available yet, but Creators have been generating cinema quality short films, trailers, and teasers with AI in just a few hours🤯 10 wild examples:

@MichaelRWear And the guy appears To be from New Hampshire cause he’s wearing the evening sport coat (lined flannel) - I have 6

great ad

@ChrisSununu All great spots to eat - hope you walk around a bit too

Hope we see you out on the trail today, New Hampshire!

@Eweather13 Bow, NH super fine since 2:00… now 9:15.

Who is seeing snow showers out there? 4:30 PM radar a bit more robust than I expected.

@Eweather13 Bow, NH light snow since 3!

Anyone seeing any flakes yet?

@david_perell This is excellent, especially as I think back to our conversation just a few weeks before that March date!

I went from thinking the Bible was the most boring book ever to seeing the magic in it. Years ago, I realized that the Bible is the foundational book of Western civilization. If I was going to be an educated person, I needed to know what it said. Though I was motivated to learn about it, I didn't have the patience to read it or the knowledge to understand it. Generally, I try to follow my 4th-grade English teacher's advice to read things first-hand. But the Bible seemed too hard, too boring, and too confusing to read on my own. It was a snooze fest. The stories felt outdated in a world of smartphones and fast Internet. Living in the modern world, shouldn’t I be rooting my life in modern books, modern studies, and modern authors? At the time, I was living in New York when a friend introduced me to the work of Tim Keller. I reluctantly found time to put down the self-help and picked up two of his books instead: The Reason for God and Making Sense of God. It was around that time when I discovered Keller's Questioning Christianity lecture series. Instead of focusing on the Bible directly, Keller focused on Christianity's relationship with culture and the modern world. He spoke to career-driven Gordon Gekkos who were driven by the glories of the material world, but sensed the emptiness at the heart of such a single-minded pursuit. Instead of referencing scripture directly, he spoke about big-picture themes like identity and purpose, morality and meaning. This was back when I thought all Christians had the intelligence of sidewalk pigeons. I would scoff at church-goers because I didn’t understand why anyone would worship a sky fairy or follow rules from thousands of years ago. Keller was the guide I needed. For the first few years, I looked at faith through a cultural lens instead of reading the Bible directly. I literally knew nothing about Jesus or Christianity — and I came to realize how little I knew about my own atheism too. In school, while studying the Declaration of Independence, I’d learned that it’s “self-evident” that “all men are created equal.” Turns out, this defining American ideal is only self-evident if you assume that every person has inherent worth because they’re made in the image of God. I was stumped. Where did my moral compass come from? Do people have inherent value? And if so, is it because every human is a child of God? In addition to advocating for the life of Jesus and the truth of his message, Keller revealed the many assumptions underlying my own atheistic worldview. He taught me that every worldview requires a leap of faith. Sure, Christianity couldn’t perfectly explain everything in the universe, but then again, neither can any worldview. Astrophysicists say that much of the universe is made up of “dark matter,” which is a scientific-sounding way to talk about a leap of faith Though I did some Bible studies, I never enjoyed them. They felt more like reading tedious academic papers than drinking directly from the fountain of God’s wisdom. Instead of reading Scripture directly, I joined a small Christian reading group where I was the only non-believer. By showing me coherent ways to interpret reality besides my science-based materialism, books like The Story of Reality and I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist loosened the screws on my atheism. My palate was beginning to change. Like a fine wine, the same flavors that were once repulsive to me started to appeal to my intellectual taste buds. I surrounded myself with wise Christians who were orthodox about scripture and eager to answer my hardest questions about faith. I asked them to dinner and invited myself to Church with them. This marked a new era. Once again, I found some guides: books, Internet sources, and an in-person leader to show me the way. On the Internet, I'd turn to The Bible Project to answer my big-picture thematic questions. I picked up the ESV Study Bible, which I still read every day on the white boucle couch in my living room (if you like reading on the computer, I recommend The Bible Study App by Olive Tree). For years, I’d stiff-armed the Bible. Now, I was skipping to a 7am Bible Study led by a devout believer who'd been reading God's word every day for almost a quarter-century, and wasn’t afraid to rebuke my theology. What surprised me most was how carefully we read. I admired the integrity of our study. We live in a culture of binge-reading where people boast about how many books they can complete in a given year. We did the opposite. We never read more than ~20 verses in a single session and dissected every word, every verse, and every story. (I once spent two hours studying John 1:1-4 — just four verses at a strip mall Schlotzsky's in the Texas Hill Country.) Never in my life had I read so deliberately. I spent months in the books of Ephesians, Romans, John, and 2 Corinthians, and there's no way I would've known how to read the Bible so diligently on my own. I learned to look beyond English translations, and I use the BibleHub to look up the original Greek and Hebrew whenever possible. For a translation, I recommend the English Standard Version (ESV) (no, you don’t need to read the King James Version). And If you're going to pick two books, I recommend the Gospel of John and the Book of Romans. Either find a guide to read them carefully with you or follow along with The Bible Project and The ESV Study Bible. Whatever you do, read slowly. I used to be a serial consumer who’d brag about how many books I read every year. I’d pick up anything and everything. The more, the merry. But the more I study the Bible, the more careful I’ve become about who I read and listen to. Gone are my days as a serial consumer. Frauds, charlatans, and false teachers abound, so be skeptical and vet your sources. In all this time, I’ve had no more than ten serious teachers. Fortunately, that’s all you need. I became a believer on March 20th of this year, four years after attending my first Tim Keller lecture, and the Bible is alive for me now like no book I've ever read. These days, I read the Bible and basically nothing else. Opening it up is the best part of my daily routine. The words twinkle. The stories are supernatural. It's a living, breathing document, and I wholeheartedly believe it's the Word of God, which makes every other book feel dim by comparison.

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@DrMGuillen Are you in town?! I would have invited you for dinner!!

Of all the major cities I've lived and worked in, my favorite is Boston. It's where I lived while teaching at Harvard. And where I got my start in TV news (WCVB-TV). What is your favorite city and why? #favorite #city

@LifeWthCat Yes and thank you.

@PensInsideScoop Where is that hat from?!

The boys did a scavenger hunt this afternoon and Geno found some absolute treasure 😂

@david_perell That’s great David - fools despise wisdom but fear of the lord is beginning of knowledge.

For the past few years, I've been super distracted. Success had me jumping at superficial opportunities, and I started saying yes to so many things that were "pretty good" that I no longer had space for the best things in life. My life lacked stillness. I couldn't think. And because I was so busy, I wasn't being the writer I wanted to be or the friend I needed to be. And so, I entered a "Season of No." I started with a medley of things to stop doing. I call it my "To Don't" list: conferences, cocktail parties, group dinners with more than six people, birthday parties, and basically all weddings. The list goes on. It felt cold until I realized that without the restrictions, I'd lose touch with my essence and wouldn't be able to fulfill my core responsibilities to the most important people in my life. Life is a power law, and I have to prune the fairly important to make space for the very important. My list of priorities is very small. I have exactly two goals: 1. Get to know God. 2. Make insanely great content. I also have a short list of people who are extremely important to me, and I always make space for them. The idea for a Season of No comes from Alex Hormozi. He recommends one goal. Maybe two. Definitely not three. Then you say no to basically everything else for the entirety of the season, which can be anywhere from three months to three years long. You know you're doing it right when you're pained by all the things you're saying no to. Steve Jobs said: "People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are." You can't dilly-dally your way to focus. You need to arduously weigh tradeoffs and make value judgments about what you fundamentally value in life. Only once you've defined a clear list of priorities can you say no to just about everything else. (I explained my thought process in this interview with Danny Miranda, which I've clipped below and linked to in the next tweet).

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