Albert Bellamy

@db3rdand11 @HawkEmDownChris Scary dude.

@HawkEmDownChris Definitely Bo Jackson but also Marcus Lattimore from South Carolina. He wasn’t one of our guys but I’ve got a lot of respect for him.

Name an athlete you wish had a fully healthy career. I’ll start: Derrick Rose.

@HawkEmDownChris Bernie Kosar

@Devon_Eriksen_ The great ones usually cant explain why they're great, nor can they identify or develop greatness in others. Very few exceptions.

@Devon_Eriksen_ I felt like this reading Goggins' books. Fun to read? Sure. Actionable? No chance. Goggins has the athletic talent of a pro football player, which is the #1 reason he can do ridiculous things. Just like Michael Jordan was awful at evaluating talent.

Professional basketball players are tall. That doesn't mean playing basketball will make you taller. It means that you will be more successful at playing basketball if you are tall. And great achievers don't ask questions like "who am I?" or "what is my purpose?", not because they don't need or don't care about the answers, but because they already have those answers. Whether they got those answers from a whole lot of navel-gazing, or whether the questions were easy for them really doesn't matter much. Mindlessly aping randomly selected traits of high achievers, when you don't know which traits are causal, which are controllable, and which are both, is not a path to great achievement. It's a path to a cargo cult, where you are waving two flags around in front of a radar dish made of sticks, waiting for John Frumm to land the magic plane. Even great achievers themselves usually don't know what it is about them that made them successful, much less whether and how these traits can be imitated by others. They are as much in the dark as the rest of us, except that their success and celebrity status can sometimes imbue them with a false sense of certainty over whatever notion they have. Unusual achievements are, by definition, unusual. If we knew how to systematically duplicate them, do this, don't do that, they would not be unusual. They would be the baseline. Sure, it pretty much has to be possible to investigate and learn how humans can be more productive, successful, accomplished. But interviewing a bunch of accomplished people is not a very fruitful way to get there. You don't know which things they say are important, and neither do they. If you want to learn something, run an experiment.

@HawkEmDownChris He did not have much left in the tank...

Age yourself by naming an MLB catcher you grew up watching. I’ll start: Yadier Molina.

There is a pattern, and it runs through everything. The sun was free. They sold you sunscreen. Sleep was free. They sold you pills. Walking was free. They sold you a treadmill. Fasting was free. They sold you meal replacement shakes. Cold water was free. They sold you a plunge barrel. Animal fat was free. They sold you supplements to replace what it contained. Fermented food was free. They sold you probiotics. Tallow was free. They sold you a seventeen-step skincare routine. Silence was free. They sold you a meditation app. Sunlight on your skin was free. They sold you vitamin D tablets. Every single thing the human body requires to function was available, free, for the entirety of human history. The 20th century built an industry around removing access to each of them. The 21st century is building an industry selling them back. Nothing about this is accidental. Your great-grandmother had none of the products. She had all of the things the products are compensating for. She was, largely, fine.

@HawkEmDownChris Pat Tabler

Age yourself by naming an MLB first baseman you grew up watching. I’ll start: Albert Pujols.

@courtneyknill Just found those at a local market!

oh, you know these are going with some queso later this week 😎🧀🌶️

@Devon_Eriksen_ I had never heard the term "cram school" before but its my new favorite.

I've never been impressed with "grind culture", and I was especially unimpressed with Ramaswamy's allegation that, no there is no bias, Americans are just being outcompeted because they played varsity football instead of attending cram schools. That whole attitude, that whole way of looking at the world, is predicated on a credentialist, zero-sum idea of what education is even for. To the third world striver, coming from a broken society, education and cram schools are for outscoring the other guy on tests so you can beat out the other guy for the high-paying job, the tenure track position. It's not really important what that position actually is, because what you really intend to do in that position is get money and status. That whole attitude accepts, from the very outset, that you're not going to change the world in any positive way, you're just going to tweak it a little so more of it belongs to you, and that's the limit of your ambition. But the first world creator doesn't think like that. He's capable of asking philosophical questions like "What are intelligence and education for, and why do we care about them?" After all, there must be some reason why existing institutions try to test and measure people so they can give cushy jobs to those who are theoretically the best.(Or, these days, the most diverse, meaning least White.) The reason is that we want people to invent and discover things. And, yes, educating people, and cherry-picking the smart ones does help. But it only helps to the extent that it doesn't interfere with the other qualities required for innovation... optimism, courage, vision, persistence, creativity, flexibility, and so on. If I were looking for a stable, unadventurous, uncontroversial figure to become the Howard. J. Moneybags Chair of Abstraction Studies at the University of Ivy Covered Walls, and polish a chair with his butt for fifty years before retiring to a life of fly fishing, then a cram school veteran with a tiger mom holding his leash sounds like just the man for the job. But if I want to invent a heavier-than-air-flying machine, I want a couple of talented rednecks messing around with bicycle and kite parts in a shed somewhere. Ironically, the richest man in the history of the known universe didn't go to cram school or chase the money. He tried to build what he wanted to see in the world, even when he thought he would probably fail. So don't send your kids to cram school. They are as smart as they are, and no amount of practice trigonometry tests will ever make them any smarter. Instead, teach them not fear failure, not to give up on themselves, and to that you will always love and believe in them no matter what.

One day, you're a career Marine with kids in high school. The next day, you're at your "kid's" wedding, hoping your old uniform still fits. Life comes at you fast. I took a week to appreciate the journey and recalibrate. Refine the goals and process for 2026. 🪖📊

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Carnivore before and after: Before: - Planning 6 meals daily - Counting calories obsessively - Meal prep Sundays - Tupperware everywhere - Anxiety about missing meals - Snacks in every bag - Constantly thinking about food After: - 2 meals when hungry - Zero counting (satiety works naturally) - Cook meat, eat meat - One pan in the sink - Forget to eat sometimes - No snacks needed - Don't think about food until hungry The mental freedom is more valuable than the weight loss.

Of all the Mike Tomlin games that have ever Mike Tomlined, this might be the Mike Tomlinest of them all.

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@CieGrant This is the way.

@Advo_Katy So many children raised in single-parent households as well. Tell your kids "It's not your fault" all you like. The message they hear is that their needs were less important than your desires.

"My son has said to me, he's almost seven, 'I wish we had a daddy.'" I said, "I understand that. I can imagine that you would. And this is the kind of family that has two mommies because that's how mommy got born, that I love another mommy, not a daddy." And he gets it. -Rosie O'Donnell So many children raised in same-sex households voice the same longing. And many receive the same answer. Your needs are negotiable. My attractions are not. The moral burden runs only one direction. The child is expected to surrender something fundamental and then be grateful for the choices that caused the loss.

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If you are a Millennial Dad you are likely working your tail off right now and carrying and insane amount of weight. You go home every night, try to be the best 50/50 parent you can be, and give your partners and kids everything you have left. You worry about the world and AI and the price of precious metals and the constant political clown show. You might spend too much time online or work too much but when you don’t, you feel like you’re behind on everything. You still try to enjoy yourself from time to time if you can. I see you. Keep grinding. Keep showing up.

I don’t have much desire to be so rich so I can buy a Rolex, have a Lambo or take trips to Dubai. I want to be rich so I can control my time and go to the gym at 1pm on a Monday without worrying. Sit at a Cafe with espresso and relax for an hour So I can cook meals at home with clean ingredients. Spend on my beautiful mid, family and friends without worrying about a budget. That's my idea of a rich life, not the fake consumerist idea shoved down my throat to suffer in the suburbs.

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