Dan

80/20 Rule:

Dance music gets treated like chaos in a speaker, but there’s something weirdly therapeutic about it. The repetition. The bass. The shared movement. The feeling of being in a room where everyone’s body is saying the same thing before anyone has to explain themselves. A new study looking at 68,000 tracks found that a lot of EDM fans turn to the genre when they’re feeling low. 43% reported good mental health, and 1 in 3 healthcare professionals in the study saw it as one of the top genres for mental wellbeing. Makes sense. Sometimes the mind needs less analysis and more rhythm. A beat gives the body somewhere to put the feeling. Movement gets people out of their head. Music turns stress into something physical for a while. No one’s saying a rave replaces real support when it’s needed. But there’s a reason people come back from a dance floor feeling lighter. Sometimes the thing that helps is a walk, a conversation, a good meal, proper sleep. Sometimes it’s a battered speaker at 2am reminding your nervous system that joy is still available.

People love saying they want peace until peace asks them to stop entertaining the version of themselves that only knows how to function in chaos. Calm feels boring when your whole identity was built around surviving. That’s why some people reach stability and immediately start looking for a new problem. The nervous system misses the old game even when the soul is tired of playing it.

A hard lesson I keep learning is that resentment is usually delayed honesty. Somewhere along the way, you said yes when you meant no, stayed when you knew, helped when you were empty, smiled when something felt off. Then one day, you’re angry and pretending it came out of nowhere. It didn’t. It was built very carefully by every truth you kept swallowing.

You should try more random things before deciding who you are. The idea that your identity is some fixed object you discover once and then defend forever is insane. You might be weirdly good at sales, writing, teaching, building, hosting, leading, negotiating, storytelling. There are whole versions of you locked behind rooms you haven’t walked into yet.

Leadership is funny because people think it’s about being the loudest person with the clearest plan. Most of the time, it’s just being the least emotionally contagious person in the room. Everyone’s nervous system is looking for somewhere to place its uncertainty. If yours is leaking panic, the whole room starts making worse decisions with more confidence.

Shoes off in the house. Always. I’ll still offer you a drink, make sure you’re comfortable, maybe even pretend I’m relaxed about crumbs on the sofa. But the shoes stay at the door. Think about where they’ve been all day. Public toilets. Pavements. Supermarkets. Trains. Petrol stations. Random wet patches on the street that nobody has the courage to identify. Then people walk all of that straight into the kitchen, across the carpet, around the sofa, and over the same floor their kids crawl on, play on, drop food on, and occasionally lick for reasons only toddlers understand. Studies have found shoes can carry coliform bacteria and E. coli, and a lot of that bacteria can transfer onto hard floors. So the “no shoes inside” rule suddenly feels a lot less dramatic. Leave them at the door. Keep slippers nearby. Make it normal. Your home stays cleaner, your floors stop collecting the outside world, and your guests get to enjoy the rare thrill of being mildly inconvenienced for the sake of basic hygiene. Everyone wins. Well, except the bacteria.

Supplements make the most sense when you stop expecting them to save you and start seeing them as small votes in the direction of self-respect. Taking magnesium before bed won’t fix a life you keep sabotaging, but it might help you sleep well enough to stop sabotaging it tomorrow. That’s usually how change works. Less cinematic than people want, more powerful than they realise.

This is why nutrition gets so confusing. People turn food into morality when a lot of the time the body is just responding to maths, consistency, and context. Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition, famously lost weight eating mostly snack foods like Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos because he kept himself in a calorie deficit. That doesn’t make junk food healthy. It just proves something people keep forgetting. You don’t need a perfect diet to make progress. You need awareness. Calories matter. Food quality matters. Protein matters. Fibre matters. Micronutrients matter. How the food makes you feel matters. Your relationship with food matters too. But eating a donut doesn’t ruin your health. Having crisps doesn’t mean you’ve failed. One meal doesn’t make or break a body. The pattern does. The goal isn’t to live like a monk and secretly hate every meal. It’s to understand the game well enough that food stops controlling you. Eat mostly well. Keep an eye on portions. Get enough protein. Move your body. Don’t turn every snack into a personality crisis. Health becomes a lot easier when you stop treating perfection as the entry fee.

A lot of people think discipline is about being hard on yourself when really it’s just self-respect becoming logistical. Food in the fridge. Phone away from the bed. Clothes laid out. Calendar not set up like someone who secretly hates you. Life gets a lot easier when your environment stops negotiating against your future self all day.

@ZackPolanski Zach, sadly most Jews know that you are a genuine threat to our safety cos you don't have the spine to stand up against anti jew behaviour without the whataboutism of including islamophobia.

Zac ran one of the most racist campaigns - at that time - this country has ever seen. Hate against both Jewish and Muslim people is on the rise - and we work best when we stand in solidarity with each other. Both Antisemitism and Islamophobia are both unacceptable.

@jk_rowling @hugorifkind Tbf I've been waiting for permission like this so I think I really will fucking go for it, starting with zarah sultana and corbyn. Chief hypocrites. Zach Polanski ironically not much better.

@hugorifkind I say, fucking go for it.

Just a small shout-out to each and every one of my fellow Jews out there who now find themselves working really hard not to spend their entire evening telling people on the internet to fuck off.

@Ssaniya_ people like you are exactly the reason Jews in the UK are being targeted. Hope that being a racist sits well on your conscience.

More than 75,000 people DIED in Gaza.

Most people try to change their life while staying emotionally loyal to the older version of themselves. That’s why the change doesn’t stick. New goals. Same identity. New habits. Same self-image. New plans. Same internal permission system.

@MarioNawfal @grok Mario I'm not a troll. If under 10% of the gaza population being killed is widely considered a genocide, especially by you, which is fair enough to hold an opinion, I think it's fair to say a 90% reduction in Jews is... Not great at least. Hence your post being silly. Fair?

@danmurrays @grok please correct this troll. Is there Jews in Iran? How many?

SINCE THE WAR STARTED, THERE HAS BEEN ZERO REPORTS OF RETALIATION OR VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS IN IRAN ZERO.

@doctor_rahmeh I know it's really hard for you to understand this so will say it slowly. Don't. Be. Racist. The rest of your tweets will probably fine just try really hard and you can change just Don't Be Racist. It's not that hard btw. Good luck.

Hello and peace be upon you all. As some of you may be aware, I was arrested for the fifth time on 25 March, charged, remanded overnight, and released on bail. For tweets. It has become difficult to determine what words or phrases will result in the police knocking on my door and placing me in handcuffs. But I am not the story. I am one voice out of billions in what is humanity's greatest fight today. While the genocide in Gaza continues and spreads to Lebanon, we in Britain are criminalised for words. This Friday, I will appear at the Old Bailey court in London for my first hearing. This is the start of yet another battle for our basic freedoms in the UK. Thank you all for your support. I have missed you.

@DanBilzerian Must be super heart warming to see how many modern day nazis exist. Cute.

I’ve been going through the donations on my campaign page and reading the notes people left. I wasn’t excited to start this race, felt like homework I was putting off, but seeing this many people give, probably thinking nobody would even see it is really motivating.