Jeremy Rishel

This is absurdly wrong. There are "great mean" who don't seem to have been introspective based on what we know, but they seem like a rare exception. The Greek philosophers and statements who initially shaped a lot of how we still think about the world. Marcus Aurelius. The U.S. founding fathers. These are just immediate examples of deeply introspective people who's introspection was fundamental to how they lived.

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

@shaneparrish No fiction? Nothing on the arts or culture? Just business and leadership studies? I like a lot of the books here but it just seems so insanely narrow especially for kids who should be expanding their horizons in every conceivable direction.

I should add the boys are in grade 9 and 10

Every now and then I refresh the books on the kids nightstands and bookshelves. I never tell them what to read, but I strategically place some books. This is the pile going in today.

@jack @anthonynoto @elonmusk Principle 1 is we should know who the author is, so we can evaluate credibility. Principle 2 is protect from active misinformation. This isn’t as hard as it sounds since the vectors of misinformation are relatively few. If principle 2 is accomplished imperfectly, 1 safeguards.

@anthonynoto @elonmusk ❓

Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. That’s our mission.

@NathanCHubbard Magical

the most underrated thing about the west coast is the 10am football kickoffs, and the before-midnight US Open epic match finishes

@CourtneyDemoree Amazing journey! Congrats and best of luck in your next adventure.

Tomorrow is my last day at Twitter after almost 10 years. It was an incredible journey and I leave filled with love and appreciation for all that this company has done for me. Here come 10 thank you's to celebrate 10 amazing years.

@kayvz @Twitter Congrats on a great legacy of impact and leadership at Periscope and Twitter, and of course your new addition to the family!

Interrupting my paternity leave to share some final @twitter-related news: I’m leaving the company after over 7 years.

@jeremyphoward To your point, anecdotally, the kids adapt faster and better than adults. With a child in school in SF, they and their friends seem to find no issue with wearing masks.

PPS: Kids are more adaptable than most adults realize. In San Francisco masks are mandated in all schools, for those >2 years old. SF kids learned to handle it, just like they learn to wear shoes, and to use the toilet. Aussie kids are, I'd like to think, at least as capable.

I'm the lead author of the first and largest academic evidence review of masks, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, with 141 references. The claim that evidence doesn't support use of masks in kids in classrooms couldn't be more wrong. 1/🧵

@isaach 'solve' can be used as a noun. You're fine. OED has your back. Defined simply as "solution".

@squarecog I'm excited to read the book!

@jdrishel You are the VP in question btw :)

An anecdote in @missingreadme about rewrites. Sometimes I feel like the proverbial four-fingered shop teacher... 😂👴

@squarecog One of my favorites, "I know we thought we'd be done in n [days|weeks|months|quarters] all those times before, but this time for real!" That anti-pattern shows up a in a lot of contexts.

Hi @jdrishel

@anthonynoto @SoFi Congrats!!

An exciting & proud day @sofi. SoFi has been built 1 person at a time standing on the shoulders of those that came before us. So today we thank all those that have come before us & all those that will help #sofi endure forever in serving our members to achieve their ambitions.