Laura Roeder

A Week in The Life of a Claudepilled Marketing Founder medium.com/p/a-week-in-th… (list of everything claude did for me in the past week)

@einarvollset everything in japan is SO CHEAP rn it's ridiculous, great time to come! (here at the moment)

I must go to Japan.

@climatepaige ok you're right it's the perfect look!

@lkr The outfit I chose is perfect then, because it’s a comfortable slip dress you can easily wear to the restaurant / hotel bar you will go to right after without too many eyes on you. I also gave you a large bag you can fit your laptop in!!!

I want to give all my mutuals MetGala looks. Comment with a photo if you’d like one!! (Or I’ll just use your profile pic)

@climatepaige that's true I cannot do ridiculous outfits I don't think the meta gala is for me I didn't even like wearing a wedding dress honestly, I just kinda picked the standard popular wedding dress for the year I got married 😆

@lkr Omg no!!!! I tried to think of something on theme-enough but also comfortable / easy to wear, as you are too chill for the more ridiculous outfits

@climatepaige ha!!! I would never wear this but it is the right shape for my body type

@maiab @yacineMTB @sama haha yes most people COULD have 10 kids! no thank youuuu

@yacineMTB @sama wait but truly *as many kids as you can* like I am a literal and capable person

Being a parent is great. You guys should have kids. I really mean it. You guys should have as many kids as you can

@johnkonrad There are so few mainstream famous white men willing to speak out against Trump publicly. I have massive respect for Ryan because of it.

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.

@harisenbon79 ooh ty, it sounds like you live in japan?

@lkr Kurokabe in nagahama Gero Gujo Takayama

what are your favorite beautiful, random towns in Japan? still big enough for some restaurants I really liked Nikko and Onomichi for example can be anywhere in Japan!

@RandomlyLondon TY!

@lkr matsumoto

PS does anyone know why they do this? Is it actually about air quality or trying to show how crowded it is or something?

Thought of @levelsio when I saw this co2 monitor at a Japanese mall

@incredutility I agree but also a huge problem with modern parenting is being unwilling to say no to kids Even if your kids are total screen addicts, you can just cut them off at any time. They'll lose it for three days max, usually just one day, then it will be fine

One thing we accidentally learned is that never introducing screens (or having them exist strictly in special circumstances, like long haul flights) basically solves this. Every time screen time creeps in, like when one of the kids is sick, it’s always a bit of a fight to dial back down. I can’t imagine trying to cut back once it’s a big part of their lives. It seems like never starting down the path and adding friction everywhere (for us this means not having a TV, just a difficult to use projector with no screen) is the move. An huge benefit is that the kids join us out at dinner all the time and they can just chill / draw / talk with us without much issue (obviously sometimes they’re fidgety etc but it’s mostly totally fine).

@maiab Aaand they always have to be supervised in the pool ensuring you get to witness 100 percent of it!

it’s nice having our own pool because now instead of having my kids bicker and fight in my living room, every day after work they can bicker and fight in our pool

@itsolelehmann Barcelona is especially tough After staying at hundreds of airbnbs with my family my rule is to only use airbnb, and only book places with lots of reviews. Does limit your selection though.

wtf Just arrived at our appartment in Barcelona that cost me 4.3k and the first thing I see is that the floor is burned…. AC isn’t working (only one fan of 7) Smells like mold, horrible smell It was advertised with 128m2, it’s 95 at best No internet password, no one replying to my messages Not clean at all Booked with ukio, what a fucking scam Might just nuke it and return to Berlin for another month Really can’t believe the level of quality/service Sad :(

its a very small park - I would say adventure world is disappointing, most of it has no theming and just looks like office buildings, its weird the regular disneyland park is a nice small disneyland and the night fireworks/projection show was incredible 3 days would be long time, I would do 1 or 2 days if you want to do it

@lkr Also disappointing? I was thinking hey 3 days in Disneyland and then when I come out…Paris!

I’m unreasonably worried about becoming a Disney adult for someone who has never been to Disney anything. Is it a gateway drug? How would I even know if have the Disney adult gene?

@VicVijayakumar I have!

@lkr You’re in the UK- have you been to Disneyland Paris?

@derekhalpern People aren't doing that anymore

Okay, ai wizards: everyone makes prompts that start with things like: “You are a world class direct to consumer marketer.” “You are head of finance at a CpG company” And tells ai who it is. DOES THIS REALLY MATTER?

@climatepaige Don't do it!

hair appointment tomorrow morning, stylist verrrrrry skilled at coloring (and will have extra time because she rescheduled me), talk me out of it