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@officialstrong8 @ClownWorld @JBMason If you’re wearing a shirt that says “Henry” you do better selling Subarus.

@Roberthix @ClownWorld @JBMason So all the Ford salesmen are Beta?

Some men out here paying thousands of dollars a year to join a private masculinity club, flying to conferences, sitting in hotel ballrooms, and wearing another man’s name on their chest like a sports jersey just to learn how to be a man.

@JBMason Like with most things, context matters. If you want to be invisible or blend in, wear the casual version. If you want to convey authority or stand out, move towards formality. The trick is to always be intentional and understand that you’re always communicating.

- wear shorts and a t-shirt - “a button down would be better” - pants would look better - tuck in your shirt like a man - you should wear a blazer - a suit would look better - a tux would look even better - “why are you wearing a tux at Home Depot?”

@JBMason Navy.

What I’m about to admit will shock the menswear world… My reputation may never recover. I wore the same outfit two days in a row. The only adjustment is the shirt color. Do we prefer white or navy?

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@howertonjosh @INTERIORPORN1 True.

@INTERIORPORN1 This is whatever is the opposite of a flex Being an old man and woman holding hands in rocking chairs watching your great children play in your yard is a flex

OMG, do you know how much of a flex this is?? 😭

@MikeWingerii Congratulations! Well deserved.

I never thought my channel would get a million subscribers. I kept waiting for my channel to plateau, as often happens, and it just didn’t. I don’t see the 1,000,000 mark as a validation of my ministry or my ego but I do see it as a weighty thing in light of how many lives God has allowed me to reach and that fills me with a sense of gratitude and, to be open, a sense of dread. “Let not many of you seek to be teachers for we will be judged more strictly” I am properly fearful in light of this verse and in awareness of how my work can impact the lives of others. But I rejoice in the Lord for the positive impact many of you have experienced through this ministry! Whenever I meet people who recognize me they spontaneously tell me how they were blessed and their lives impacted by God’s grace to them and me in this ministry and on this YouTube channel. In my view, that impact (not the content I make) is the goal of my ministry. And that’s what’s amazing about reaching a million subscribers. It’s fully worthwhile to labor hard to minister to one person. And if one person is worthwhile then reaching a much larger group is that much more wonderful, because each one matters. I’d happily do all of this work, if God enables, for a fraction of the people but it’s a cause for rejoicing to see so many being blessed. I’m not at a million yet but it’s close and it has me thinking about these things. I thank God for you! Jesus shows us God, carries our sorrows and sins, takes our guilt far from us and brings us close to Him. Trust in the risen Lord Jesus. Trust in the Scripture. Wait on the Lord and He will strengthen your heart.

They want to tell Gen X and Boomers to sit down There is a little problem with that, let a Gen X'er explain

@pmarca And they were cooking the books the whole time

It's so obvious that God exists.

Nothing beats a night at The Tavern — Selbyville, DE’s best dive bar hands down! Cold beers, killer vibes, and the best crew around. 🍻 Who else loves this spot? @TheTavernRt54 #Selbyville #DEDiveBar #SupportLocal #FenwickIsland #DelawareBars

I saw a video of a woman cleaning her home that said something powerful: “I’m taking care of what God has already given me so He knows I’ll appreciate what’s coming next.” That really stuck with me. Sometimes the blessing isn’t about getting more… it’s about how well you take care of what you already have. Gratitude, stewardship, and appreciation open the door for even greater things. 💫

Happy Easter from #SurfCity, #HuntingtonBeach CA. He is risen!

@Layemie001 As a data cable guy, I can tell you that the feed-through RJ45 connectors are terrible. While easier to install, their failure rate is too high.

Electricians are now getting tools they deserved.

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her. The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.” Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life. During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable. Finally, Kafka brought back the doll (he bought one) that had returned. “It doesn’t look like my doll at all,“ said the girl. Kafka handed her another letter in which the doll wrote: "my travels have changed me.” the little girl hugged the new doll and brought her happy home. A year later Kafka died. Many years later, the now-adult girl found a letter inside the doll. In the tiny letter signed by Kafka it was written: “Everything you love will probably be lost, but in the end, love will return in another way.”

@ihtesham2005 Hands down, one of my favourite videos of all time. I’ve shared this video with countless colleagues over the years.

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only. I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication. His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak." His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order. Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored. Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades. He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds. Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these. The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently. His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in. I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle. Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing. The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

@Renatta Happy birthday @Renatta! Hope you have a wonderful 45th with your family and friends. Grateful for your daily posts of encouragement.

45. I am officially halfway through my 40s and halfway to 90. 😱 I thank God for letting me see another year. I’ve had many ups and downs in my life but God has remained constant. My faith in Jesus Christ only grows daily. I pray there are many more years ahead of me. I want to live my life to the fullest, no matter how old I get, and I want to live for Christ every single day of my life.

@Renatta Happy St. Patrick’s Day, @Renatta !

Happy St. Patrick’s Day y’all. I don’t believe in luck. I am not lucky; I am blessed! I pray you all have a very blessed day!

This is a 1000-gram iron bar. In its raw form, it’s worth around $100. If it’s turned into horseshoes, its value rises to about $250. If it’s made into sewing needles, its value jumps to roughly $70,000. If it’s crafted into watch springs and gears, it can be worth around $6 million. And if it’s transformed into precision laser components, like those used in lithography, its value can reach $15 million. Your value is not defined only by what you are made of, but by how well you shape your potential into something extraordinary.

@wwzeng1 @SpaceX @xai Congratulations, William! Hope you build incredible, truthful things.

I'm excited to join @SpaceX and @xai to build the future of coding. The opportunity for impact at xAI is monumental. By solving autonomous engineering, we’ll be able to accelerate our progress towards the future and reveal new secrets about the universe. Over the last few years I've worked on the first open source AI coding agent and the number one rated plugin for JetBrains. Now I'm excited to join the world's most ambitious team to advance Al coding. If you want to join this incredible team - my DMs are open!