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@chairmanbiden74 That’s @TimJDillon

this photo of pritzker always makes me laugh because what the fuck are those shorts

@RyanHoliday Read your old book and cry more homo

Lol. Rolling your eyes at the performative philosophy of a member of the most corrupt family in American history is apparently 'fuming'? Although if there was anything to be mad about these days, I think objecting to people lighting the world on fire so they can make a killing in prediction markets and kickbacks is probably it. yahoo.com/entertainment/…

@ScottChoppin Being serious with this q. Is the marginal dollars for nicer appliances not worth it?

Our architect joke: "I don't want to win design awards. I want a nice, rentable building that's cost efficient." Our UTH projects aren't sexy. They're 5-bed townhomes with garages that families desperately need and competitors won't build. Function beats form when you're solving real problems.

@johnkonrad Guys a fucking dork who made his personality another man from 2000 years ago

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.

@bdomenech Losers that have too much time on their hands ruminating

Stoicism is just religion for Guys Who Love Abortion

@crack_jowe He’s inherently weak minded. If you have to spend your life studying how to properly “think”. You’re inherently fucked up and weak.

Stoicism and Ryan’s books were a huge help to me taking charge of my life after college. Very useful to handling emotions and perspectives that I couldn’t control or see. Eventually saw he was a hack and learned to live life my own way, but for a time it helped. He built a business out of it (which this was obviously created to promote) but for a topic that lives and dies on integrity, he lost the mark. Hope he got the anti-Trump brownie points and clicks he wanted. This shit is just embarrassing.

@liam_out_loud He’s got TDS and his whole personality is based on sucking off some guy from 2000 years ago that says don’t show emotion.

Let’s assume Ryan Holiday is right and Donald Trump is evil. He then argues that Ivanka Trump can’t really speak on stoicism because by familial relation, she’s participating in that evil, which makes her not stoic. Now let's test this logic. Holiday constantly cites Seneca as a model for stoic wisdom. Someone whose teachings we should follow. Seneca was an advisor to Nero, one of Rome’s most ruthless and paranoid tyrants. So by that same logic: Ivanka can’t be taken seriously on stoicism because of who she’s related to. But Seneca should still be seen as wise—even though he directly advised a tyrant on how to hold and use power. Major contradiction. It never ceases to amaze me how many people who seem intelligent drop basic reasoning the moment Trump enters the conversation.

@HighyieldHarry The usage of the word is 0% offensive. VC fag dorks 100% offend me.

I will not stop until we get the a16z dorks to stop trying to professionalize the R-word. This is an important societal battle.

@HighyieldHarry @cole_slaw87 @eriktorenberg Never forget these are high school nerds that got no pussy

@cole_slaw87 @eriktorenberg its so predictable at this point.

I still haven't found this person by the way. They're either too retarded, or not retarded enough.

@thesamparr It’s sounds unnatural. At the end of the day these are dork VCs who never banged any chicks trying to be edgy. I say the word but these guys are just cringe.

I 100% agree with this. When leaders say "retard" publicly - in most every case, its super lame. If saying retard or any other offensive word makes the joke land 10x, then yeah, say it. But tossing it around like this...very performative and inauthentic. Not a fan.

@MerlijnTrader We will take care of our hemisphere and a united US and Russia will likely be against a Muslim Europe in the future.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇹 Trump just cut Italy loose. "Italy was not on our side. We will not be on their side. They made their choice." Meloni's response: "Italy cannot be part of any organization where children and women are massacred." Trump's closest European ally. Gone. NATO exit threatened. Spain sanctioned. Now Italy. The U.S. is losing Europe.

@follard Eggs bacon cheese on a bagel is infinitely better, classier and more satisfying.

The next hill I am ready to die on is that there is no breakfast food item in the United States better than a Texas Breakfast Taco. Y'all can keep your pancakes, waffles, omelets, french toast and breakfast burritos. Texas breakfast tacos are undefeated.

@credealjunkie @ADeermount Overlay population growth and it’s even uglier lol

Counterpoint: real life.

@acquisizioni Yes I said no and then told the marketing office they forgot to put us on the website. Turns out no one checks if you paid.

I am buying a parcel from a master planned development for the first time and I have the option to participate in the “master branding” marketing campaign (for a fee of course). Anyone have experienced yet? How important is this?

@zerohedge Rounding error inventory

*TOP US APARTMENT OWNERS AVALONBAY, EQR SAID TO WEIGH COMBINING that should help rental affordability

@DallasAptGP No probs with Texas hail?

We've done a bunch of gut renovations on small 1960's apartment buildings We've now put skylights into the roofs on two of them

@subdivisionguy Yeah I’d imagine the 45 min flight has to take a hit.

Do the airlines realize I’ll rarely ever fly again once FSD tesla lets me sleep in the drivers seat? I know I’m not alone.

@JenSiebelNewsom You’re a hypocrite whore. Is that a better more direct way of speaking to a woman?

My family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O’Donnell last night, and we were shocked. Seeing a president speak to a woman journalist with that level of contempt — and a clear allergy to facts — is disturbing, though at this point not unexpected given his pattern of behavior. But that is the problem. Because when that level of disrespect from the highest office in the country repeats itself, it starts to trickle down into our culture and define what power looks like, shaping how boys and plenty of men see women and girls and what they come to accept as normal behavior.

@acquisizioni @UrbanCourtyard As long as your don’t have units that are dark 20 hours a day

What is the ideal multifamily courtyard size? How small is too small? Can it ever be too big ? @UrbanCourtyard

@mhp_guy Endless Indian buffets as well

This is the best real estate in the world. 1:1:1 Chipotle to Chick-Fil-A to Crumbl ratio. More HOAs per capita than anywhere on Earth. Only 3.5% property taxes. Only 45 minutes to downtown Dallas. Every house has a privacy fence. Current entry level price: $1.2 million