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@DanJMasters Dan - that is fantastic. I don’t disagree that it can be a great thing, unfortunately, the dilution and commoditization of “travel” has made it much more difficult to come by. Buyer beware is all I am saying.

@Jstation561 I respectfully disagree. We’ve found success in travel/club. It’s there. Keep searching for the right org.

I will die on this hill. I will argue till I’m blue in the face. I will produce the data. Participation in youth sports/activities is as important as many of the classes my kids take at school. Maybe more important.

@sweatystartup There is no upside to sleepovers, kids can can bond together all day. At sleepovers you don’t sleep, your generally the a parent who wants to relive what life once was and they are the worst kind of parents imo.

Too many perverts in the world for sleepovers.

@techhdive @zuess05 Wow nailed it. Small orgs don’t need it but big orgs do, its a bit of a paradox you want to be efficient to grow but when you grow you can’t be as efficient for all sorts of reasons

middle management exists because information does not flow well in large orgs. someone has to turn business goals into clear engineering work and explain engineering problems in simple terms to leadership. beyond that, absorbing pressure from above so the team can focus, clearing blockers that ic’s cannot remove, managing relationships with other teams so dependencies move and making sure shipped work actually gets accepted by stakeholders.

Serious question. We have an entire corporate class making $150k a year whose only actual job is to sit in meetings and ask "what is the status on this?" But if one guy with Claude can now finish a 2-week project in an afternoon... Why haven't companies laid off the entire middle layer yet?

@Jason Dude why not says this in 2020, easy to say now, poser.

Had someone at one of my companies using pronouns in their communications, and I was like, "dude, you know this looks immature and silly to 90% of our partners." He quit a couple of months later.

@GadSaad @RyanHoliday @elonmusk Ironically social media has broken your brain Ryan.

Dear @RyanHoliday, neither @elonmusk nor myself are purporting that empathy is bad. In my forthcoming book (out in one week), I provide a detailed evolutionary and psychiatric explanation of how adaptive empathy is an evolutionarily selected virtue but suicidal empathy is the dysregulation of that rational virtue. Given your take on Stoicism, you might want to read my book rather than spewing orgiastic misconceptions. Here you go: amazon.com/dp/0063446537/…

@RyanHoliday A “goober” the pot calling the kettle black.

Lol what kind of crime do you have to commit in a past life to be condemned to white knight for a member of the most corrupt family in the history of American politics? You're a fucking goober.

@RyanHoliday This might go down as one of the worst public meltdowns of all time.

It doesn’t matter who you voted for or what your political beliefs are; putting kids in detention centers is wrong. When I look at my two boys, I don’t think about them getting taken. No parent should. And it shouldn’t be a privilege that we have because of what we look like. Everyone deserves that right. This has to stop.

@sweatystartup @shawngorham Agree - end goal is to live in a four seasons. Not a residence, just a suite in the hotel itself.

@shawngorham My honest opinion ss the owner of a few homes: Its really far down the list of things that make me happy. Actually adds stress and more work maintaining, upkeep, bills, admin, etc.

The reason I want to make money... This house is iconic in the city I live in (1916 one of the original farmhouses among orange groves) Its overpriced, its a total fixer, the numbers will never pencil. But if I ever make F U money... my wife and I will just make art projects I need to work harder/smarter to give her the houses she loves.

@APompliano Ryan Holidays meltdown due to Trump derangement syndrome.

What was the best thing you read, watched, or listened to this week? Any topic is fair game.

@johnkonrad His work is phenomenal but he has always been cringe and off. He created a niche in stoicism for one reason and one reason only and that was profit. He has surrounded himself with utterly despicable people his whole career who have material character flaws.

Ryan was once a friend. He’s been out sailing on my boat. I helped him sketch the initial pivot to writing about the Stoics. Sadly, this isn’t his most shocking video. That distinction belongs to the ones featuring his kids at Trump rallies. He’s a smart guy and a deep thinker, but Trump has him tied up in knots. What made him popular is the unique, insightful advice he gives. That earned him a roster of “celebrity” friends, mostly authors, who reciprocated with network connections and advice of their own. His closest friend is @RobertGreene, who is genuinely a great person. Ryan worked as his assistant, and Robert introduced us. Both are voracious readers. Problem one: Robert is a dork (the best kind), while Ryan is the kind of guy everyone in high school liked. Put another way: Ryan is socially motivated. Robert is introspective and observant. Problem two: Robert had brutal experiences in the workforce and wrote The 48 Laws of Power, in essence, to understand why he kept getting screwed by alpha males. He wants to help people understand the world around them. He isn’t tilting at windmills. He’s offering insight grounded in historical context. Ryan wants to actually improve the world itself. I genuinely believe his motives are good, but unlike the actual Stoics, he lived a normal life that turned into a very charmed one. Ryan’s social radar is phenomenal. He reads trends and knows how to ride them in a modern context. But I don’t think this is an act. He genuinely seems to believe Trump is a monster. How did he arrive at that false conclusion? I don’t know for sure, but we share many mutual friends, and I can trace where our thinking began to diverge. What made me reject the popular “Trump is bad” narrative in our old friend group is the Bronx. My childhood there always lingers in the background. I was (briefly) an EMT in the Bronx. My mother was a visiting nurse in the projects. My father was a firefighter when the Bronx was burning. I’ve thought hard about the liberal policies, and a few conservative ones, that produced the war zone surrounding me. I’ve spent decades working alongside people with hard jobs: soldiers, first responders, offshore oil drillers, merchant mariners. I understand why Trump’s base loves him. I understand why they agree with his policies. Even that wasn’t enough. After January 6th, I had to reevaluate my feelings toward Trump. I hated the Democrats’ slide toward Marxism. But could I keep supporting Trump after so many first-term failures? So I read roughly a dozen biographies, not just about Trump, but by his friends and associates. People who loved him. People who hated him. A truer sense of the man began to emerge. Not all “good,” but realistic, intelligent, and possessed of a deep love for Americans of every type. What makes Ryan so smart is the sheer historical context he carries from a lifetime of reading. He can plug real, useful historical lessons into almost any problem. But you absolutely must understand the full context of a problem in order to fix it. And like the actual Stoics, you have to index the good you want to do against the first-hand disasters you have actually seen. Ryan genuinely wants to fix America, but he is unbalanced. His historical context runs deep. His modern context is superficial. Here he’s trying to solve a problem he has incorrectly indexed as “Trump is bad,” without firsthand exposure to the sufferings of real Americans who have lived through real danger and tragedy. He’s plugging that deep historical context into a superficial understanding of the problems Trump is actually trying to solve. The result? Frustration, anger and rhetorical bombardment that’s almost the polar opposite of stoicism.

@bkkrecruiter @dailystoic @RyanHoliday Oh hot take!!!

@dailystoic @RyanHoliday Disappointing take. But hey we all let our emotions get the better of us from time to time. Perhaps you should re-familiarise yourself with the discipline of perception (assuming you actually wrote The Daily Stoic)

Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

@theficouple Well they certainly aren’t traveling the world on that coin….just sayin.

Spoke with a person in St Paul, MN making $200,000/yr. 33 years old & take home pay is ~$12,500/mo. Their budget is ~$6,500/mo, no debt & they save/invest ~$6,000/mo. ...The world is their oyster.

@HustleBitch_ They are adults. There is a transactional end to every part of every relationship. They can do what they want.

🚨 “I’M 26… HE’S 60” — THIS COUPLE’S ‘MARRIAGE RULES’ HAS THE INTERNET MELTING DOWN This video is going viral after a couple with a 34-year age gap revealed the "non-negotiable" rules they follow behind closed doors. • No drinking unless they’re together • Mandatory prayer every single night • “Never keep score” no matter what happens • Stay kind and “serve” each other… even during arguments They call it “intentional commitment.” She says these rules make her feel more free, not less. Is this level of structure what makes relationships stronger… or does it cross a line? 📹 credit: gracenfaithg

@WallStreetApes It’s like paying to go into a museum of gene mutation. Pass.

Starbucks CEO defends a cup of coffee costing $9 He says the customers needs to just not think about it as a $9 cup of coffee, you’re paying for the “experience” of getting a Starbucks coffee “In some cases a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging, and then what that means is we have to make it worthwhile.” He says Starbucks customers “want to have a special experience and regardless of what your income level is, in some cases, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging — well, this is a really affordable premium experience” How out of touch could a person possibly be…

@Jason Douche

For the record, I got a couple of milly at JPMorgan — and I think Lorna is innocent of all charges.

@omgsidewalks Reeboks

For those who didn't grow up privileged, name something you thought was luxury when you were a kid

@SahilBloom Quit drinking

What is the single best health investment you’ve ever made?

@michaelFhurley Playoffs are out of control this year, it’s game 3 in round one, this is akin to USA chants at rbc tourney past weekend, things are overcooked.

Such a funny picture of playoff hockey. Player gets penalized. Player is pissed, screaming “IT’S THE EFFING PLAYOFFS” at the ref. Coach is pissed. Fans are pissed. Replay shows the most obvious, violent penalty possible, with multiple uncalled follow-up cross-checks.

@zuess05 Learn to think - liberal arts

Serious question. For the last 10 years, society told everyone "just learn to code" to escape the middle class. Now Claude writes the code. What exactly is the career advice for an 18-year-old right now?