Jono Schneider

@sukh_saroy Fuck Peter Thiel

Peter thiel asked a room of stanford students one question that made most of them quietly stop typing. He asked them what important truth do very few people agree with you on. Then he said the reason most of them could not answer it was the same reason their careers would be average. His name is Peter Thiel, and he has funded more zero to one companies than almost anyone alive. Here is what he said, and why it changes how you should be thinking about your work right now. He said the most valuable thing a person can own in the next decade is not a skill, not a network, and not capital. It is a real contrarian belief that turns out to be true. For most of history, being right about things everyone else was also right about was enough to build a good career. In the world that is arriving, consensus knowledge is free. Anyone can ask a model and get the answer the smart people would have given. The only thing that compounds is being correctly early on something the room thinks is wrong. His framework for testing your contrarian belief is brutally simple. He calls it the three layer test. The first layer is whether your belief is actually contrarian. Most people fail here instantly. They think they have a contrarian view, but when they say it out loud, half the room nods. If your belief is one a smart person at a dinner party would agree with after thinking for ten seconds, it is not contrarian. It is just slightly under the surface consensus. The second layer is whether your belief is specific enough to act on. Saying education is broken is not contrarian, it is a t-shirt. Saying a specific category of credential will collapse in a specific industry within a specific window is something you can build a company around. Most people stop at the t-shirt and wonder why they never compound. The third layer is the one almost everyone skips. Are you actually willing to look stupid for it. Thiel said the number one predictor of which of his students went on to build something important was not intelligence. It was tolerance for being publicly wrong-sounding for years before being right. He said the students who held their contrarian belief privately, waiting for it to be socially safe to say, almost always watched someone else build the thing they had quietly believed in for a decade. The people who are actually winning right now are not the ones with the most knowledge. They are the ones who picked one uncomfortable truth, said it out loud before it was safe, and stayed there long enough for the world to catch up.

@TitleTalkTCL ART

5 minutes of the greatest season by a Tight End ever: 2011 Gronk

@mikewichter 😂

yeah i was just saying that the vrabel/russini story had not gotten nearly enough coverage

@nut_history Overrated how? It's a sick fucking catch man.

I’m probably on a island here but I think this Jim Edmonds catch is super overrated

@gguworld Best song off their best album although Gone Shootin’ may be a little better :)

AC/DC – “Down Payment Blues” Malcolm’s rhythm is a freight train. No brakes, just pure grit.

@Tonysmarkettips She could have said "fuck you, that's my fucking personal phone", which would make more sense than anything else

I have no sources at the Athletic to prove this, but here is what my gut tells me happened… The Athletic said, “Show us your texts with Mike Vrabel so we can investigate, or you’re fired” and then, any only then, did Dianna Russini chose to resign. She is protecting her “friend” because she knows there is evidence of tampering in those exchanges. She fell on the sword.

@anishmoonka Le Samourai. That is all.

A samurai was sent to kill an evil lord. He cornered him, drew his sword. Right before the strike, the lord spat in his face. The samurai felt rage, and that rage ruined everything. If he killed now, it wouldn’t be duty. It would be personal. So he sheathed his sword, walked away, and never went back. Del Toro read that story before Sicario. It changed how he played the entire role. His character Alejandro is a former lawyer whose wife and daughter were murdered by a cartel. The whole movie is a revenge mission. But del Toro realized something from the samurai: to function as a killer, Alejandro has to bury all of that. Lock it away completely. So when del Toro saw pages in the script where his character explains his trauma to Emily Blunt’s character, he started crossing lines out. He told Villeneuve it felt fake. A man who’s locked his grief in a box doesn’t open it for a stranger he met fifteen minutes ago. Villeneuve agreed. They kept cutting. By the time they were done, 90% of everything Alejandro was supposed to say in the entire film was gone. Not just the dinner scene. The whole movie. Villeneuve’s take: dialogue belongs in plays. Movies are about movement and presence. The studio got nervous. They made the crew shoot a backup dinner scene with more talking, just in case the quiet version didn’t work. Took half a night to film. They never used it. I love that other actors ran with this same instinct. In the entire runtime of Drive, Ryan Gosling speaks just 891 words. Seven words every time he opens his mouth. He and Carey Mulligan skipped a bunch of their scripted lines because silence told the story better. Keanu Reeves did the same in John Wick 4, cutting his own dialogue in half. 380 words across almost three hours of screen time. The first John Wick had 484 words in half the runtime. Movies got longer, Wick got quieter. Sicario made $85 million on a $30 million budget. Three Oscar nominations. Del Toro got a BAFTA nod (basically the British Oscars) for Best Supporting Actor. And the whole thing was Taylor Sheridan’s first screenplay. He was still a struggling actor on Sons of Anarchy when he wrote it in four months. Now he runs the Yellowstone empire. Sicario 3 (called Capos) is officially in the works. Brolin called it “very, very real” last year. If del Toro comes back, I’d bet good money he has even fewer lines.

@BostonCream Voodoo magic

Patriots 🆚 Steelers in 2017 was a classic 🍿

@TitleTalkTCL I thought the game was over after that catch. Kneel 3 times and kick the FG.

This made me think of how Atlanta actually ended up Punting on this drive

@GalvinAlmanza Also why is this desirable

I don't get how people are planning to sidestep the very basic problem that if you don't have junior hires right now, you won't have experienced people 5 or 10 years later.

@mikewichter That injury sucked so bad

Was a total beast before the injury

@gguworld Absolutely man

This is what a guitar gods sound like. Still agree?

@zaaaarbi Oh that movie is fucking perfect man

One of the best things that can happen to someone who loves movies is when you randomly put on a flick you never even heard about until yesterday without expecting much and it turns out to be incredible. My ★★★★½ review of The Friends of Eddie Coyle boxd.it/dzvcFr

@kristenrudd Read it twice in a row

About to start Blood Meridian for the first time. Give me all your best advice.

@mikewichter Insane I love curry but I don’t love so many guys trying to be him

how much has the game changed? steph curry has 4,233 career three pointers.

@EsyResearch @MorePerfectUS He’s an idiot

@MorePerfectUS Respect to Andreessen but I'm gonna call BS on his response, he is clearly someone well read and who thinks deeply about the world and his own mind than most. He's purposely playing on semantics to appear woke in the traditional sense.

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

@MorePerfectUS Fuck these assholes

@mikewichter 99%

95%

@DannyDrinksWine That is such an odd pov

Francis Ford Coppola on why he feels 'The Godfather' (1972) ruined his career: "In some ways 'The Godfather' (1972) did ruin me. It just made my whole career go this way instead of the way I really wanted it to go, which was into doing original work as a writer-director. It just inflamed so many other desires. After 'The Godfather', there was the possibility of having a company that could one day evolve into a real major company and change the way we approach filmmaking. Suddenly, a lot of things that I didn’t have a shot at I did. 'The Conversation' (1974), which I did write and direct as an original, was a film nobody wanted me to do, but I got to make it out of the deal to do 'Godfather II' (1974). The great frustration of my career is that nobody really wants me to do my own work. Basically, 'The Godfather' made me violate a lot of the hopes I had for myself at that age." (Francis Ford Coppola's interview with Michael Sragow, 1997) P.S: On this day, 54 yeas ago, "The Godfather" (1972) premiered in New York City, USA.

@mikewichter TBH surprised it’s not worse

Of course. I have a brain.