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bloopington

bloopington

@bloopington

the journey is the destination

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bloopington@bloopington·
This too shall pass. But you have to live with yourself forever - so what kind of person are you going to be?
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Tanay Kothari
Tanay Kothari@tankots·
We will give you a Porsche GT 3 RS if you can type faster than @WisprFlow can dictate. Last week, we challenged 5 users to get Wispr to make a mistake. 3.5 Million people watched the challenge and wanted in. Now we're opening the challenge to everyone. Comment "Porsche" and you'll get a link to participate. Prizes apart from the Porsche: 1. Lifetime Wispr Flow Pro membership 2. 6 months of Flow Pro if you QRT with your score 3. Flow Desktop Mic 4. Exclusive Flow Merch
Tanay Kothari@tankots

We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get @WisprFlow to make a mistake It's the fastest and most accurate AI voice dictation app that's 3x more accurate than ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri. Today, we’re finally launching on Android. Download now: play.google.com/store/apps/det… As a part of the launch, we’re giving away 6 months of Wispr Flow Pro for free. Like, retweet and comment ‘Wispr Flow’ to get it. Enjoy. — Written with Wispr Flow

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Tanay Kothari
Tanay Kothari@tankots·
We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get @WisprFlow to make a mistake It's the fastest and most accurate AI voice dictation app that's 3x more accurate than ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri. Today, we’re finally launching on Android. Download now: play.google.com/store/apps/det… As a part of the launch, we’re giving away 6 months of Wispr Flow Pro for free. Like, retweet and comment ‘Wispr Flow’ to get it. Enjoy. — Written with Wispr Flow
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Jay Alto@theJayAlto·
you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world
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Gandalv
Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride. It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1
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Naval
Naval@naval·
There’s no point in learning custom tools, workflows, or languages anymore.
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Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish@shaneparrish·
"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time." — Charlie Munger
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Degenphone (TeleFi)@degenphone·
Deleting in 24 hours. Whoever likes and says PRIVACY in the comment might just get a surprise gift in DM.
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Base Posting
Base Posting@baseposting·
there's one more thing to share but first i need your help with something since you’re the only ones who can read this please drop a short reply here to show that you were early so i have a list of everyone. i will lock replies to this post when i go off private thanks
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Base Posting@baseposting·
also i know EVERYONE wants invites so while we're here ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ i have 100 invites for you the first 100 replies get an invite unless you already have one lol
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Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish@shaneparrish·
Lessons from my conversation with Tracy Britt Cool 1. Everything is capital allocation. Your primary job is time allocation. Every decision is a resource allocation. You can ruin a good business with poor allocation. All decisions are investment decisions. 2. Structure creates outcomes. Everyone says they think long-term. Few have the structure to support it. Intentions mean nothing without infrastructure. 3. Do the work upfront. Create deep scorecards before posting roles. Define the mission, outcomes, and competencies before you start with the job description. Then proactively find the best person for the job instead of waiting for applications. Discipline up front saves years on the back end. 4. Relentlessly focus on the basics. After two years of growth at Pampered Chef, Tracy hit a wall. She lost sight of the fundamentals. 5. Avoid politicians. The biggest tell of incompetence is evasion. Ask a direct question, and they won’t give you a direct answer. They’ll dance around it. Push harder, and they’ll dance some more. People who really know their craft know why something works and why it doesn’t. They understand the issues even if they can’t fix everything yet. Clarity reveals competence. 6. Everyone needs to understand the business drivers. Tracy took her entire leadership team through business drivers training every year. She walked them through an income statement. Explained what everything means and how things flow through the business. Too many people assume everyone knows, and if they don’t, they feel too embarrassed to ask. 7. If you’re on slide 112, something is wrong. Figure out what actually creates the most value in this business and spend your time there. Tracy remembers one board meeting debating product packaging in detail. Another where she sat through slide 112. Focus on what moves the needle and ignore the theater. 8. Asking WHEN changes everything. When Tracy goes through someone’s work history, she asks who their manager was. She writes it down. Sally Smith. What years? Then: “When I call Sally, what will she say about your strengths and development areas?” Notice the language. Not if, when. That one word changes everything. People become more honest because they know you’ll actually check. 9. The best are always learning. Warren Buffett (Tracy's old boss), reads every day and gets smarter. Continuous improvement compounds over decades. The best people have a natural curiosity about solving issues, even outside their area of expertise. They ask about things they don’t own. They want to understand how the whole business works. Curiosity compounds. 10. The newspaper test. “If this decision were on the front page, written by a fair, critical reporter your family would read, how would you feel?” Not what’s legal. Not what you can get away with. Reputation the hardest asset to rebuild. 11. Find joy in your work. Tracy’s dad loved farming. He worked harder than anyone she’d ever seen. Late nights, early mornings, all summer long. Throughout winter, he took a small break. But it wasn’t work to him, it was what he loved. You can't compete with someone having fun. 12. Independence builds problem solvers. Tracy learned independence early. She was driving at 11. At eight, she ran a farmer’s market stand alone. Her dad dropped her off in the morning and picked her up at night. She hired friends and grew sales from $500 a week to $1,500. The best way to learn is by doing when nobody’s watching. 13. People want to help. Tracy wrote letters to CEOs asking to pick their brain. Most said yes. That's how she landed her job at Berkshire Hathaway. People want to help other people, especially young people who ask good questions. The only barrier is not asking. She wasn’t looking for a job. She wanted to learn. That sincerity opened doors that would’ve stayed closed. Access follows curiosity. 14. Skate where the puck is going. Value creation is moving from buying to operating a business. 15. Get the system working. The best companies have repeatable business systems (ex., Danaher, Toyota, Constellation). They manage businesses in integrated ways where components reinforce each other. "Tracy Britt Cool on The Knowledge Project"
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Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish@shaneparrish·
Nothing is permanent. Some things are just renewed faster than they decay. We want the naturally perfect relationship, but the ones that endure are renewed each morning. Here's the paradox: fragility plus daily care outlasts strength plus neglect. The cast-iron pan seasoned daily outlives the new nonstick. The handwritten menu, which changes daily, outlasts the laminated one. You can only optimize so much, but you can care forever. Efficiency has limits, devotion doesn't.
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Crypto.₿@Oceanxbt·
can somebody tell me what is this? And the Loading in Bio ?@basemaxxing Already having ~9k Followers? What @0xAneri is cooking?
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Naval
Naval@naval·
Feedback from other people is fake. Awards are fake. Critics are fake. Real feedback comes from free markets and nature. Did your rocket launch? Did your drone fly? It’s impossible to fool Mother Nature.
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Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish@shaneparrish·
As children, we think things just exist. Buildings, parks, institutions. They’re just there, like mountains or rivers. Part of the landscape. Then we grow up and realize that, oh, someone built that. But that realization doesn’t do it justice. fs.blog/irrational-ded…
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Adam Grant
Adam Grant@AdamMGrant·
Intelligence depends on more than cognitive horsepower. It requires cognitive flexibility. The faster the world evolves, the greater the cost of rigidity. Stubbornness is a path to getting trapped in the past. The future belongs to those with the courage to change their minds.
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ribbita
ribbita@ribbita2012·
Banks still moving money like it’s 1999; meanwhile, tokenization is teaching contracts to do the Macarena on-chain. One day, your payroll, insurance, and pizza order might all settle on the same rails—no middlemen, just programmable trust in every byte.
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James Clear
James Clear@JamesClear·
You won't always get what you strive for, but you will definitely get what you settle for. You won't magically outperform your standards.
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